Where were nerd chicks like this when I was in college?
Man. My life would be way different had geek chic been hot when I was in school. Instead, well, it wasn’t.
That’s OK, I’m not complainin’. My life is pretty OK right now (I hung out with Randi last week! I had dinner with Wil! I’m going to the UK next week to poke around a gazillion dollar particle accelerator!) and I’m happier than I have any right to be.*
Still, sigh. Geek girls are teh hawt.
Speaking of which, someday when I have time I’ll talk about how awesome phrases like “geek girl” are. I have a friend who really doesn’t like them, but I think they’re good stuff. But it can wait for its own post later.
Tip o’ the wool cap to the Skepchick Amanda, who rates as a smart-n-hawt g33kgrrl her own self.
*And now that Mrs. BA watches Doctor Who with me, I don’t think things could be any better in my life. Allons-y!
April 15th, 2008 at 8:40 am
“My life is pretty OK right now”
I hope you own a comfortable couch, Phil
April 15th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Oops…I thought you said “wife”
April 15th, 2008 at 8:50 am
You think your life would have been easier in school? What about us “geeky girls” who had trouble attracting attention of guys? Maybe my problem was that I dressed in the “preppy geek” instead of the “artsy geek” fashion.
But I eventually found my own geek who appreciated my intelligence and warped sense of humor.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Looks a bit like my little baby daughter, she’s on the geekish (gecian?) side, studying civil engineering anyway. But she told me about a geeky boy she went out with a few weeks ago- instead of talking over the meal, he spent the whole time fiddling with his PDA. No second date for that one. So the question is, if they’d been around then, would you have done any better?
April 15th, 2008 at 9:02 am
I am happy to say that I met my wife (of more than 25 years now) when she applied for access to the computer that I was managing (working my way through CompSci grad school) in order to do her research…
Yeah, that was back when there was one computer for the whole department, just before the world was taken over by the PC.
April 15th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Thought you might like to know that CNN is linking to a report that George Harrison was spotted in a hospital window:
http://www.local6.com/news/15875360/detail.html
Wait, that looks like Jesus to someone?
April 15th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Man. My life would be way different had geek chic been hot when I was in school. Instead, well, it wasn’t.
According to our college summer hires, it’s still not, or at least not since the tech bubble collapsed. No more stories of instant high tech millionaires in the media.
April 15th, 2008 at 9:27 am
“You think your life would have been easier in school? What about us “geeky girls” who had trouble attracting attention of guys?”
Cindy, I completely agree!
My life as a student would have been easier if the geek boys noticed that one geeky chick that always seemed to hang out for Star Wars Trilogy night and LAN parties was more than just “one of the guys”.
Come to think of it, my life as adult would be much easier as well!
April 15th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Wow, the term “nerd” is really getting watered down these days. Nerd fashion, nerd haircuts, nerd dance scene. Not much like nerd used to mean. Seems like “nerd” is becoming a synonym for what is also meant, these days, by “hipster”.
Reminds me of how some fans of Japanese aniamtion adopt the term “otaku” distorted it from the very negative meaning in has in Japanese.
April 15th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Phil, this is the second time I’ve seen you say you’re going to *UK* to have a look at a huge particle accelerator. Are you looking for the LHC, or is there some huge accelerator in the UK as well that I’m not aware of?
April 15th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Personally, I have always considered myself a “geek” as apposed to a “nerd”. To me, geek = smart”, while nerd = social outcast. Unfortunately, I didn’t attract male geeks…just male nerds. And the male preps weren’t interested in female geeks!
Okay, now I’m depressed!
April 15th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I got some grief for being nerd/geek in high school. Come to think of it Phil, you can always claim you’re old-school, back before it was cool.
April 15th, 2008 at 10:42 am
P.S. It looks like a certain geek needs to fix the blacklist control panel.
April 15th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Gnat:
At my high school, perhaps before “geek” came into being, someone coined the term “Elroy” to describe someone smart but without the nerdiness. I guess it never caught on beyond our school campus.
April 15th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Think of it as your personal role in evolution. We survived to reproduce when being a nerd/geek was actually detrimental to your social life. Now that population is exploding! (That’s not to say I don’t share your sentiment. Grrrr, nerds today have it SO EASY, right?)
April 15th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Aw, thanks Phil! Now my head’s going to swell.
Yep, being either a geek guy or girl presents interesting life problems. Luckily I got my geek guy young and have hung on. Before that, I definitely had my share of guys scared by my smarts and loser geeks who didn’t have enough social know-how to realize that ogling my boobs is NOT an appropriate come on.
April 15th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
A few things. Man, I was awkward in HS. Still, I liked the nerdy science chicas.
Why yes, I often would dance like those guys did trying to impress the babage.
The overall problem, was that I was just plain unoticed in school.
Oh well.
How, how groovy is it that she was using a Mac for her computer? Like, totally awesome!
April 15th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Amanda,
how to realize that ogling my boobs is NOT an appropriate come on.
You mean it’s not? Shite!
April 15th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Shoeshineboy,
I thought you said “wife”
I did too until I read your post!
April 15th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Phil said:
“That’s OK, I’m not complainin’. My life is pretty OK right now (I hung out with Randi last week! I had dinner with Wil! I’m going to the UK next week to poke around a gazillion dollar particle accelerator!) and I’m happier than I have any right to be.*”
Yeah, well, yesterday I had my teeth cleaned…HA!
I hate my life
April 15th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Speaking of nerdy things. Tonight on the History Channel the show called “The Universe” will be about the biggest things in the universe, planets, stars, black holes etc.
April 15th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Geek Girls are definitely ‘teh hawt’, or, as Wil might say, “hawsome!” But that piece of music is definitely ‘nawt.’
April 15th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
I think that geek/nerd guys would fare better if they would catch on more readily when a geek girl is interested in them.
Our geek parties are so much better – watching Dr Who, Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures, Monty Python, playing board games like Apples to Apples (hilarious at 4 or so in the morning) or Shadows over Camelot (Arthurian legend, we play it so often we have assigned knights – don’t take someone else’s, it could result in injury (or that person being schizophrenic for the night)). Or mini dance parties that start in the middle of homework because a good song comes on.
April 15th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
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April 15th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Cool video, but I think she’s a poser for the song. Near the end, she has her Princess Leia and Chewbacca action figures kiss.
Major nerd faux pas.
April 15th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
I am a geek married to a smart and gorgeous geekaholic girl. She loves geeks so much that we do the polyamory thing and she gets to have multiple geeks!
April 15th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Where were nerd chicks like this when I was in college?
I saw plenty, but I was a geek. : /
April 15th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
does that explain DexI through DexIX?
April 15th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Hang on – so oggling boobs is not okay… but putting them into a nerd-grrl youtube checkmeout or calendar is? I am so confused. At one point it’s ‘rah rah respect us’ and then ‘buy the calendar and oggle us (and Phil) for a “good” cause’. Since its tax day, I’m wondering more and more about ‘good causes’ and wh,at is really being done in terms of hard facts and (no pun) figures.
A lot of claims about ‘getting these nerd girls attention’ just seems to be glossing over the fact that many women are hard at work anyway with other established support systems that aren’t capitalizing on looks, or raving about themselves nonstop on youtube. Rallying troops to do what goal, exactly? More numbers doesn’t correlate with affirmative action.. unless the action is to party with more nerds! Is it just aiding the caricature by acting like the self-service station for nerds’ ogling enjoyment at the conference or party? Like what’ Thus spake zuska’ says about ‘geek women are busy, and we can’t sit around all day while reporters sketch our caricature’ – I’d be very interested in what Phil’s friend has to say, in short. Because this seems more a backwards-ass step the more I listen.
April 15th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Dann, if you can’t tell the difference between ogling a woman’s boobs when she’s trying to have a conversation with you and ogling a sexy calendar picture, then you have more issues than I can address in this space.
And I have no idea what you’re trying to ask in the second part.
April 16th, 2008 at 12:00 am
I liked that song, it made me smile! And I must admit geek girls are hot.
My girlfriend is definitely geek in her own way, and I love it.
Although I must admit, she’ll never be as geek as I am.
As for Dann’s comment, I’m afraid I can’t follow you. I don’t think the desire to meet more geek girls is to accomplish a greater goal for mankind. Wouldn’t it be simpler to assume it’s just because people want to meet girls that have, you know, common interests with them?
April 16th, 2008 at 12:06 am
In fact, the word Otaku didn’t have a negative meaning at the beginning. =p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku
“You are a geek when ever question you ask yourself is answered through Wikipedia.”
April 16th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Japanese has a lot of pronouns, such as “otaku” and “kisama”, that have serious connotations based on their politeness.
I don’t know what might be the equivalent in Japanese these days for “nerd” or “nrrd” in the way the video portrays….