I’m geeky because…
- I recently found “Fringe” on Netflix and watched all episodes and found myself depressed when it was done.
- I’ve spent so much time during my life pondering why I’m geeky.
- As an english major I’m discovering interest in math & tech
- I enjoyed yesterday’s session and sharing with friends/family about the experience. Also – I get pure joy from my funny cat Jack
- I spent 2 hours talking my husband’s ear off last night about all the interesting topics we discussed companies and people I met, and cool technologies I learned about.
- I like to use technology to make life easier and to find shortcuts.
- I was voted Girl Most Likely to Merge with her Computer by by senior class in high school
- I love fiddly electronics and hardware bits, sci fi, fantasy, many sorts of gaming
- I self declared as weird in 9th grade
- Technology surprises me, delights me, and will one day save my life and possibly the planet
- I love solving technical problems
- I learned to program in 1966
- I grew up with 4 very geeky brothers – there wasn’t room for a non-geeky girl
- I enjoy: math, learning, composting demos
- I feel the need to very thoroughly explore the incredible world around me. (And I satisfy that need as much as possible!)
- I get a little too excited about metadata.
- I love solving problems
- I like numbers and science fiction and making things work and finding weird connections between diverse stuff.
- Physics background
- Everything is interesting
- I like to know how things work
- Puzzles are fun, be they math/programming problems or actual puzzles.
- Favorite hobby: music
- I love to learn new things while blogging.
- Unexpectedly, I have had an amazing career in technology (I was a Humanities student!)
- I hang around to get photos with the scientists and researchers at National Geographic
- I like to make things go (creating, building, debugging, using) and like all the future-thinking in F & SF
- Learning is my favorite pastime
- I like living an evidence-based life.
- I started programming on a PDP11 in 1977. Acoustic coupler modem from a Decluriter to a machine 60 miles away
- I like to know how everything works and how to make things do what I want them to.
- I was born to be. Dad is a geek and as the oldest, I was the first to bond with Dad over things like Star Trek and math problems.