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Post number 7995

capt.crackpipe — Thu, 31 May 2001 17:11:09 -0800

Nerd spotting for beginners.

By: wantwit

wantwit — Thu, 31 May 2001 17:14:20 -0800

that guy standing on the left holding a beer is definitely a nerd.

By: kindall

kindall — Thu, 31 May 2001 17:17:35 -0800

There may be at least one MeFi member in that picture.

By: girlhacker

girlhacker — Thu, 31 May 2001 17:35:32 -0800

I don't see any girl nerds. Sigh.

By: milnak

milnak — Thu, 31 May 2001 17:36:58 -0800

That one guy has an earring. He certainly can't a nerd.

By: mapalm

mapalm — Thu, 31 May 2001 17:44:15 -0800

I think I saw one woman way in the back, near the left column...don't despair, girlhacker

By: amyscoop

amyscoop — Thu, 31 May 2001 17:49:56 -0800

This reminds me of that Eyerman photo of all the people in the 3-D movie theatre. If they all had the same color laptop and were all facing the same way, this snap would be a contender for the cover of Life next month.

By: darukaru

darukaru — Thu, 31 May 2001 18:09:11 -0800

I wish I'd gone to WWDC, so I could have assaulted them and taken their TiBooks.

By: SpecialK

SpecialK — Thu, 31 May 2001 18:38:49 -0800

Ack! They're all using MACS! So the answer is: Find the one guy running Linux, and THEN you've got the nerd.

By: Grum

Grum — Thu, 31 May 2001 19:18:12 -0800

How about the guy standing up in the back, with no computer, but insisting on wearing his backpack with both shoulder straps. That's the deadest giveaway to nerddom I've ever seen. (and I went to the University of Waterloo, the Canadian Nerdtopia) What's really surprising is noone seems to be connected/linked to anyone elses computer for a quick head to head game of...um...what can you play on an Apple?

By: crackheadmatt

crackheadmatt — Thu, 31 May 2001 19:21:56 -0800

Hmmmm I have to be somewhere in the picture...

By: dong_resin

dong_resin — Thu, 31 May 2001 19:22:28 -0800

"Dude, I'm totally going to marry Jessica Alba." "Bro, we can't both marry Jessica Alba." Or "Cha' Kung blath, path moth pah!" " You want to perform a matting ritual with my lamp shade? Larry, your Klingon is sooo weak."

By: darukaru

darukaru — Thu, 31 May 2001 19:25:12 -0800

Grum: iBooks and TiBooks do 802.11 wireless connections. And WWDC is usually peppered with transmitters. So they could be playing Quake and we'd never know. Now that's nerdy.

By: moz

moz — Thu, 31 May 2001 19:40:32 -0800

that picture was classic. but it's the thing to do at conventions, i suppose. having been to an anime and a gaming convention before, though different in name, they are all surprisingly similar.

By: hijinx

hijinx — Thu, 31 May 2001 19:53:13 -0800

What about the person who took the picture?

By: Sellersburg/Speed

Sellersburg/Speed — Thu, 31 May 2001 19:53:29 -0800

Those in charge of this group of kids seem to be averting their gaze. And it looks like the nerd drinking Snapple has on a purple watch.

By: tdstone

tdstone — Thu, 31 May 2001 20:21:14 -0800

We have a winner...big guy in the back sitting against the post with the two-tone look. Blonde dye job on top and scuffy dark, brown beard. Woohoo!

By: pascal

pascal — Thu, 31 May 2001 20:46:33 -0800

tdstone - that "blond dye job" is, like, a baseball cap, no?

By: pascal

pascal — Thu, 31 May 2001 21:13:43 -0800

PS: I'm going to be at JavaOne next week, so I can see myself in a scene like this in the very near future. And I do have a TiBook. But I will look just _so_ much cooler than these guys. I will!

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Thu, 31 May 2001 22:11:11 -0800

Mad props to the Capt. This pic rocks!

By: john

john — Thu, 31 May 2001 23:07:01 -0800

Pascal, I won't be at JavaOne, but my buddy Alan will. He'll be demonstrating the latest X3D browser version. It's very close...I'm going to be living and breathing this stuff for a while.

By: fullerine

fullerine — Fri, 01 Jun 2001 01:40:46 -0800

How can Two-Tone guy compete with those lovely lilac calf-length socks in the bottom right of the screen. Are those Hi-Tecs he is wearing??

By: crasspastor

crasspastor — Fri, 01 Jun 2001 01:47:04 -0800

I think I saw one woman way in the back, near the left column...don't despair, girlhacker Assa dirthead! As they called them in high school at least.

By: Mocata

Mocata — Fri, 01 Jun 2001 04:14:48 -0800

What a picture!

By: machaus

machaus — Fri, 01 Jun 2001 09:49:40 -0800

Find the person sniffing passwords with EtherPeek on the wireless traffic, and you'll find Alpha-Geek within this subspecies of Mac-Huggers.

By: lescour

lescour — Fri, 01 Jun 2001 10:12:15 -0800

pascal, did you diligently schedule javaone sessions until midnight to turn in to your boss, all the while secretly scheming to find fun things in sf to do at night? or was that just me?

By: kindall

kindall — Fri, 01 Jun 2001 10:23:20 -0800

No, the alpha geek is the guy who wrote the wireless packet sniffer that grabs GIFs and JPEGs out of the air and displays them on-the-fly. (Someone did that at MacHack last year.)

By: Chief Typist

Chief Typist — Fri, 01 Jun 2001 23:20:41 -0800

The nerd who took the picture. We're getting a huge kick out of these responses, and surprised to hear about the lampshade!

By: capt.crackpipe

capt.crackpipe — Sat, 02 Jun 2001 03:47:14 -0800

You iconfactory guys kick all sorts of icon ass. (Just read your bio. I lived in Boone for a few months myself. Good town.)