The Nerd Confession Thread

[lwheelr]

Preferring WB over Britannica isn't nerdy. It is just smart. Doesn't everybody?

 

[abifae]

I read the dictionary and thesaurus during public school reading time.

I got in trouble for this. So I switched to college books. And got in trouble.

So I started walking out on silent reading LOL.

They finally agreed I could read anything I wanted. Sheesh.

 

[freemotion]

Sheesh, abi, what was the reasoning? Haven't we all read the dictionary and encyclopedias for fun?

 

[abifae]

I think I was too weird, being autistic and all. LOL. They were very much not comfortable with MOST of the things I did.

My dad let me take the red wagon to the library and fill it with books every week. I read through the entire religion and mythology section in 3rd grade LOL. There were a few books that were too dry and I didn't read them, but I read the vast majority.

I read through WW2 section over that summer too.

He thought it was great!

HE let me grade his school work before he sent it in when he was getting his Master's. My grammar was better than his and I could catch any logical errors.

 

[freemotion]

Yep, public school=teach kids to conform so they can be good little worker bees, not thinking for themselves. I'm sure they were very frustrated with you for many reasons!

 

[abifae]

bwahahaha. Guess I shouldn't have started school in Germany

I started with the idea that schools were for concepts and growth and fun and....



And mean dad just perpetuated that.

At dinner: Where does blue corn come from?
Dad: Five bucks to the first person who finds out!
Abi: *runs to the phone and calls the public library - this was before google*

LOL. There was no hope. I was forced into research at a young age.

 

[AnnaRaven]

Yep, public school=teach kids to conform so they can be good little worker bees, not thinking for themselves. I'm sure they were very frustrated with you for many reasons!

Not just the public school.

My parochial school freaked out in 3rd grade at the books I wanted to borrow. I mean, when I wanted to learn about electricity, I borrowed books on how to generate electricity and then there was the time my teacher had to approve my borrowing a book that was "too advanced". They quizzed me on the vocabulary and then decided that I was okay to borrow it. LOL.

Silly people.

Happy to report DD is as much a bookworm as I am - she's now a writer!

 

[THEFAN]

THe Nerd Thread is cool


I Collect:
comic books silver age super heroes
gijoe toys 1982-1986
Warhammer citadel miniatures pre 94
Unopen Star wars toys 1978-1985 only
silver
books
pocket protectors
Baseball cards


Still play with
Atari
nintendo


Owned:
2 comic / baseball shops
2 Game stores 1 on-line and one store front
I have sold and bought on ebay since 2000

I still recall the first internet in collage

I programmed Q-basic when it was cool

I still have my first GIJOE amd R2D2 is glued to the front of my Truck

FAV movies
MAll rat
Clerks
Clerks 2
Fanboys

I met Kevin Smith


I can go on

 

[lwheelr]

When my youngest son was seven, he started reading the Prelude to Glory series - historical fiction, which his Dad was reading. There were four of the books in what became a 9 book series at the time, each one about an inch and a half thick with footnotes. He finished the first in about two weeks, and proceeded to read the others that we had, waiting eagerly for his Dad to finish each new one. Got so impatient with the last one that he bought his own copy, then he replaced our copy of the first one because he read it so much he wore it out.

At the age of 10 he bought a copy of John McCullough's 1776, with his Birthday money, and read that cover to cover.

It sure is easier to homeschool kids who can read.

 

[FarmerJamie]

THe Nerd Thread is cool


I Collect:
comic books silver age super heroes
gijoe toys 1982-1986
Warhammer citadel miniatures pre 94
Unopen Star wars toys 1978-1985 only
silver
books
pocket protectors
Baseball cards


Still play with
Atari
nintendo


Owned:
2 comic / baseball shops
2 Game stores 1 on-line and one store front
I have sold and bought on ebay since 2000

I still recall the first internet in collage

I programmed Q-basic when it was cool

I still have my first GIJOE amd R2D2 is glued to the front of my Truck

FAV movies
MAll rat
Clerks
Clerks 2
Fanboys

I met Kevin Smith


I can go on

Love it, love it, love it.

I started programming on punch cards Remember when PC's didn't have mice? Life before CD's (programs with 50 diskettes you had to sequentially feed in the machine in order to install the program)? I did programming under Windows 2.0 and that was awesome!

Could I ask a favor? Could you PM me any advice on the best/safest/easiest way to sell some of the things on your list above? Particulary comics and the GI Joe stuff?

Thanks!