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What's your inner geek?
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I just had an email conversation with a 2nd marathoner/comicbook geek. Since I know another one (yes, an adult), I thought this was a pretty interesting combo. Made me realize that athletes may be closet geeks.

What's your inner geek?



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Harry Potter Geek. Obsessed with books.
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folk music/my acoustic guitar. kumbaya! i'm a neo-hippie geek.
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It has just recently (within the last 6 months) become XBox with a non-tri buddy. He has a kick-ass projector/sound system so we play on a 190" screen.

I feel so ashamed.
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Dogs

Star Wars--the ORIGINAL movies

research--I LOVE doing research. Give me a project, any project: house hunting, real estate investing, tiling a floor, selecting a breed of cat, figuring out what bike to buy, you name it...and I will research it. I LOVE doing that kind of shit. Consumer Reports could be like porn.


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i'm pretty much a wine geek.
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Wine geeks don't bother me. Wine snobs do. Also, beer geeks drive me crazy. Does that make any sense?
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I'm a Harry Potter geek too :)

I also like calculus, but not physics. Can I be only half a math/science geek, then?

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"Research--you name it...and I will research it. Consumer Reports could be like porn."

Me too. I was told that I am an information junkie --- as much as a drug addict likes his fix. www.seedmagazine.com is my porn du jour.

Lauren



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Lauren Muney
certified physical fitness trainer
certified health coach
wellcoach
http://www.physicalmind.com

There is no escape from your life... solve the problems and get on with it.

"Just tell her you love her and you think she kicks ass" ~AndrewinNH

"I'm moving [Lauren] to guru status" ~Last Tri in 83
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Public Radio and Scrabble.

I'm sure I drive my friends nuts by constantly quoting things I hear on NPR.
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Alpine/backcountry skiing geek

Flight sim geek

Closet Discovery/History channel geek

Fighting gravity on a daily basis
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I love Scrabble! My mom does too; we are vicious... I think my best score is 417 (used all my letters several times and got some nice 50pt bonuses).

maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD
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Coffee geek. There's even a website for us:

http://www.coffeegeek.com/

SCUBA diving geek, too.
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By comic books do you mean like Calvin and Hobbes? They're my favorites :)

maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
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"By comic books do you mean like Calvin and Hobbes? They're my favorites :)"

Calvin & Hobbes are great... but no.

I'm actually talking about comic books... graphic novels... superheroes or supervillans... monsters... the loners and dispossessed... the crimefighters... etc. That's who what comics these people are interested in.

Lauren



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Lauren Muney
certified physical fitness trainer
certified health coach
wellcoach
http://www.physicalmind.com

There is no escape from your life... solve the problems and get on with it.

"Just tell her you love her and you think she kicks ass" ~AndrewinNH

"I'm moving [Lauren] to guru status" ~Last Tri in 83
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Hondas and Acuras. My friends like to comment to me that I hold a bunch of useless information in my head. Yeah, it's useless until they want to know some stats !!

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I'm obsessed with rock music and Foo Fighters



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  • My wife (gf at the time) and I used to talk about Physics on a lot of our dates (with paper and pencil involved).
  • When I have an idea, usually the first thing that comes to mind is how I can prototype it with software.
  • Whenever any electronic device breaks in my house my kids and I sit down and dissect it.
  • I love working with EEs that have beards and wear Birkenstocks
  • I would rather call my office a lab
  • I have a preference between Microfilm and MicroFiche
  • I use CamelCase when it is not necessary and/or inappropriate


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Wine geeks don't bother me. Wine snobs do. Also, beer geeks drive me crazy. Does that make any sense?


yes, 100% sense and I agree! wine snobs are the ones that insist on taking their own glasses (stems) to nice restaurants, and say doing so is a "no-brainer". snobs tend to say, "opus one, blah, blah, blah" and it's all about touting off what they spend and what they have collected (no matter, they might not even know shit about the wine, but by God they have it and want the whole world to know).

geeks, on the other hand, certainly drink good wine, but they can also tell you everything about soil conditions where the grapes were grown, harvesting, cost of fruit in regions, differences between varietals in different regions of the world, and can identify wines by winery/or varietal/or region even in blind tastings. ;)

it is not uncommon for me to have several bottles of wine on my desk, so i can research the wine while/before/or after drinking it. lol--now that's geeky!!!

lol...
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In school, evolutionary bio is fascinating, especially with relations to explaining bio-socio patterns.

TV, I love Seinfeld, Family Guy, Lost, King of Queens, Everybody loves Raymond, Simpsons, House MD, Megastructures, and especially GREY'S ANATOMY.

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I'm very into the john bridge tile forums right now. Tiling is an interesting thing.


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You win.








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Classic rock trivia.

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oh.

You wierdos ;)

maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD
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Better than Ezra

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