Pyrotex Posted November 2, 2007 Report Posted November 2, 2007 TheBigDog said: ...What is a bicycle kick?...Kicking the soccer ball while riding a 7-speed mountain dirt bike. As of 1993, this tactic was made illegal in all countries except North Korea, Myanmar, Iran, Ukraine and the United States. Quote
TheFaithfulStone Posted November 2, 2007 Report Posted November 2, 2007 alexander said: You know you are a geek if you roll a d20 on a skill check to figure out if you are OK to drive today.... You know you are a geek when you don't get the reference unless you pass a DC15 skill check on Knowledge:Geekdom. TFS Quote
CraigD Posted November 4, 2007 Report Posted November 4, 2007 alexander said: You know you are a geek if you roll a d20 on a skill check to figure out if you are OK to drive today....You know you’re a geek who’s been around gaming since nearly it’s modern beginnings when you can immediately place a person who thinks in terms of d20 rolls as a D&D game family geek, vs. a dungeonquest game family geek who thinks in terms of percentage dice (d100, order d10,d10) rolls, vs. a T&T game family geek, who would think something like a 23d6+39 berserk roll. Quote
Symbology Posted November 4, 2007 Report Posted November 4, 2007 Well I don't know about the rest of you guys... but this brings to mind a favorite t-shirt: There are 10 kinds of people in this world,those that understand binary,and those that don't Quote
Symbology Posted November 4, 2007 Report Posted November 4, 2007 Craig... what kind of geek am I if I let World of Warcraft calculate my dice rolls for me? :computerkeys: Oh wait... I know... the lazy kind that uses a TI with Automatic Order of Entry to beat the socks off of the HP guys entering 7, 3, +, Enter Quote
Symbology Posted November 4, 2007 Report Posted November 4, 2007 You know you are a geek when you can see parts of yourself in all the characters of The Big Bang Theory on CBS (Click Video to watch the latest episodes) Quote
Pyrotex Posted November 6, 2007 Report Posted November 6, 2007 You know you are a Geek when you use Excel to do a job that could have been done easier in Word -- just as an excuse to write Excel Virtual Basic macros. Quote
alexander Posted November 6, 2007 Author Report Posted November 6, 2007 Symbology said: Well I don't know about the rest of you guys... but this brings to mind a favorite t-shirt:There are 10 kinds of people in this world,those that understand binary,and those that don't have you read my Quote you also know you are a geek when accidentally on a physics test, the difference between 101 and 11 comes out to be 10... oops line? ok new one, first take a look at the attached picture,you know you are a geek when you have a 4 thousand dollar piece of equipment taken apart (the one in the picture is almost assembled again, but then i had to make on out of 2 other PDAs), connected to the computer by propping it up in it's cradle with the battery... P.S. work computer in the background, yes i am not allowed to run any decent OS on it, otherwise i would... well, at least i spend most of the time on the Mac :) Quote
Pyrotex Posted November 7, 2007 Report Posted November 7, 2007 U know yer a Geek win you reverse the mouse buttons on your work computer because it makes you about 10% faster -- and you are Right Handed! I do. :) Quote
TheBigDog Posted November 7, 2007 Report Posted November 7, 2007 Pyrotex said: U know yer a Geek win you reverse the mouse buttons on your work computer because it makes you about 10% faster -- and you are Right Handed! I do. :)You are SURE you are a geek if the 10% is derived from measured observation and use of statistical models, not just from an estimate. :) You are king of geeks if you have calculated the standard deviation of your efficiency gain. Bill Quote
Symbology Posted November 7, 2007 Report Posted November 7, 2007 Pyrotex said: U know yer a Geek win you reverse the mouse buttons on your work computer because it makes you about 10% faster -- and you are Right Handed! I do. :) Oh sure you do Pyro... it's really just an excuse to get to point with your middle finger during the day :) *ponders if Pyro is thinking this minute about using said middle finger to delete Symbology's post* :note2: Quote
LaurieAG Posted November 8, 2007 Report Posted November 8, 2007 You know you're a geek ... when you know reverse polar notation is 7 enter 3 + Quote
alexander Posted November 9, 2007 Author Report Posted November 9, 2007 You know you are a geek when you point out that it's not "reverse polar notation", it's reverse Polish notation also known as the Postfix notation, realized by a polish mathematician Jan Lukaseizwicz, and it generally saves you button presses making your math quicker and more efficient, for example an expression that looks like this in your inline calculator [math]1+((2+3)*4)-5[/math] looks like this in RPN [math]1 2 3 + 4 * + 5 -[/math] Quote
Symbology Posted November 11, 2007 Report Posted November 11, 2007 alexander said: You know you are a geek when you point out that it's not "reverse polar notation", it's reverse Polish notation also known as the Postfix notation, realized by a polish mathematician Jan Lukaseizwicz, and it generally saves you button presses making your math quicker and more efficient, for example an expression that looks like this in your inline calculator [math]1+((2+3)*4)-5[/math] looks like this in RPN [math]1 2 3 + 4 * + 5 -[/math] um... actually isn't that1 [Enter] 2 [Enter] 3 [Enter] + 4 * + 5 for a total of 11 strokes Otherwise you would be adding One hundred twenty three to nothing and then multiplying by four and adding five... I dont think 497 is the answer you are looking for ;) ok, so using reverse Polish we save 2 strokes... and if it is fair for the RPN guy to rearrange the order by using his brain instead of his fingers and parentheses, how about if I enter2+3*4+1-5 thereby saving an additional 2 strokes. Or for that matter why don't I just solve it in my head and type in 16.... there, much faster. Personally I would rather type in 2 extra keystrokes just the way I see it on the paper and get accurate results. It allowed me to win 1st place 3 years in a row at the high school state level calculator competitions beating all the other HP guys. Especially since we were entering real formulas like Sqrt(7.4 + ((3 + 1/4) +2.2)------------------------------ (6^(2.3 + (Log(5.27 -3)))) Try rearranging that one in your head faster than I can press parentheses :hihi:TI-88 Rules! PS I am betting there is a guy with an Abacus that can blow us all away :lol: Quote
sanctus Posted November 11, 2007 Report Posted November 11, 2007 you know you are a geek if you are proud of working 14hours without break (and nmore than 12 hours the days preceeding and following). you know you are a geek if you are jealous of your friend who works 20 hours... you know you are geeks if you and your friend work together much more than 24 hours a day (I start in the morning he stops sometime in the morning)... Ykyaag if you explicitely learned by heart the name of a small Island/ country like Vanuatu just so that you know a place nobody knows. Quote
Pyrotex Posted November 11, 2007 Report Posted November 11, 2007 Symbology said: Oh sure you do Pyro... it's really just an excuse to get to point with your middle finger during the day :Exclamati *ponders if Pyro is thinking this minute about using said middle finger to delete Symbology's post* ;)Ohhhhhhh... I'm pondering that very thing. Hmmmmm...Better yet, I'm gonna blow your cover! :Exclamati HEY EVERYBODY!!! Symbology is a friend of mine -- we met at the local Unitarian Church. In fact, we talked this morning. I had previously invited him to join us here at Hypography. He is remarkably intelligent -- about 0.035 on the Buffy Scale. :hihi: He is also quite charming -- about 2.17 on the Tormod Scale. :hihi::hihi::hihi: Quote
alexander Posted November 12, 2007 Author Report Posted November 12, 2007 Symbology said: um... actually isn't that1 [Enter] 2 [Enter] 3 [Enter] + 4 * + 5well actually if you read what i said, the expression written like: 1+((2+3)*4)-5 is written like: 1 2 3+4*+5- in Reverse Polish Notation, how you enter it in an RPN calc is a little different 1[enter]2[enter]3[enter]+4[enter]*+5[enter]- and the total is not of 11 strokes, but more of 14 strokes if you want to be a smartass (being a smart *** is actually really good, so i do mean it in a good way, and not referring to you, referring to myself here). So total clicks is the same as if you were entering it in a regular inline calc. Now, if you were to actually write the expression or type it, you would save a few clicks, that would have to be 1 2 3+4*+5- (or 11 clicks) vs 1+((2+3)*4)-5 (or 13 clicks) Symbology said: Sqrt(7.4 + ((3 + 1/4) +2.2)------------------------------(6^(2.3 + (Log(5.27 -3))))FYI for the future, if you go to the physics and math section, there are a few stickies on a better way of expressing your math on these forums, and it makes math looks soooo much better then the quote above :)check it out:[math]\sqrt{\frac{7.4+(3+\frac{1}{4})+2.2}{6^{2.3 + (\log(5.27 -3))}}}[/math] and in rpn it would look like this: 7.4 3 1 4/++2.2+6 2.3 5.27 3-log+^/2√or someting to that extent, maybe without the 2 in front of √, dunno, not a big rpn person Quote
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