Geeky moments...

[Kathy Li]

Originally posted by wordwielder:
... The worst was when we had to recite three Emily Dickinson poems. ...

Did anybody sing them to "The Yellow Rose of Texas"? :-) It's one of the weirder facts out there that you can sing nearly every Emily Dickenson poem to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas." No really. Try it:

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

It works with "Yankee Doodle", too. And the Gilligan's Island theme song.

[Rubywolf]

It's because all of them use the clasic rythem. badumbadumbadumbadum..........
Its called something-meter.

It's fun.

[seabiscuit1009]

Ok...I have a geeky moment (I'm too tired to go and read and reply to anything actually being posted right now). Yesterday, in chemistry, we were talking about enthalpy, and then, we started talking about entropy. I, being myself, was like "That's where all the energy in the universe will eventually run down" but I didn't add the part about that's why there's wizards. I didn't think anyone would get it. But anyway...it made people look at me strangely, since I actually knew what we were talking about, before I'd read the book or done the homework. Slightly more a "made hungry laugh because YW was involved in real life" moment than a geeky moment, but it was geeky as well.

Oh well. Back to my Wuthering Heights essay.

[Hogosha]

Oh yeah, I like to geek out a bit.
I just started driving. The other day, my mom and I were out practicing and I joked about how various things like running stop signs or red lights and road rage speed up entropy. By now she's used to her teenage daughter inserting random scientific references into conversations, so all she did was look at me weird and ask me to remind her what entropy was. This gave me the opening to rant about entropy and dark matter. I had to stop at some point though, 'cause it was distracting me.
I also like to bring up quantum physics as often as possible, usually in completely inappropriate and unrelated situations.

[maxxrox]

Spouting random interesting information is fun. Plus, spontaneous trivia makes for a good conversations starter.

[Not So Silent One]

Random trivia rules. I do that a lot. My geeky moments include when reading outloud in class I tend to read waaay too fast, I finsih early on tests. Then I easily confuse one topic with another. I hate it when I do that. Wait those aren't geeky, oh well.

[Dragon Writer]

*geeky moment* reading angels and demons by dan brown, reading as they talk about anti matter, and actually being shocked that the main character can't understand a word they're saying because it all makes perfect sense to me...

[Alyson-Devereaux]

Singing the Robert Frost poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening:
Whose woods these are I think I know,
his house is in the village though
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

To Greensleeves - or at least the first verse of Greensleeves.

Actually most of Frost's poems work to Greensleeves, it's because they both have the AABA structure. I once tried the one that starts "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood", but it doesn't work as well.

How's that for a geek moment? But it's not really, because in English last year it was optional to study The Road Not Taken. Most people did it, I didn't because I liked Journey to the Interior by Margaret Atwood better. Oh yeah, and again in English, we were talking about the quest element in fiction, and the teacher, my friend and I rambled on for ages about LOTR, with everyone else going "oookaaay...".

Not to mention that in Extension English I got the Philip Marlowe award, for knowing the most about crime fiction and inventive ways to kill people and hide the bodies.

[Rubywolf]

I remember one-
We were doing those stupid little thingys (a firetruck is to a fireman as a police car is to a ________) and i was so bored. We were in the seventh grade and people had trouble filling in the blanks. We did that for TWO HOURS. After class, I overheard a group of people talking about how I was showing off just because I finished all hundred and fifty of the problems in less than twenty minutes. I was really, really, annoyed.

[Dragon Writer]

geeky moment...as likely to get into a debate with the teacher about whatever subject we're on as anything else...or a debate with another student that has the entire class watching for entertainment...saddly, the others student's argument doesn't neccessarily make sense...(in this case, it's usually evolution vs creationism, and the last time the two of us had the debate, her argument kept on saying "it's not the case, cause god didn't say anything about it!"
*Shrugs*

[kk]

I've had geeky moments where I was teaching a guy older than me about Dark Energy, thermodynamcs, global warming, the earth's magnetic field, and a bunch of other sciencey things, and everyone turned and stared at me like I was nuts. I also remember a kinda geeky moment where I was doing science homework, and my mom started reading it over my shoulder. She didn't know what they were talking about. ok, they aren't really geeky, but people were acting like I was a geek for days afterwards, even my friends when I told them.

[wizardsrreal]

I always feel really smart and geeky when I talk to my friend who goes to a different school than me. We are both in Honors english class but in her class all they do is read books and talk about them and stuff (she describes it as ' well me and my friends just sit around and do nothing ') but in my english class we read books and learn about different takes and themes in writing--like Existentialism and Romantisism and things like that--and analyse books useing them. So I'm trying to tell her about things and she has absolutley no idea what i'm talking about. She usually just stares at me like this. . . or

[bookworm438]

Hmmm... I can come up with a few :P.

In math: I'm in pre-calculus and while the level for my class is geometry and algebra 2.
I get pissed off when I get minus one on my tests for stupid reasons like not circling the letter on a multiple choice problem in math. Even though I wrote down the answer. Also not rounding properly. I get my test back, my teacher's like 'Oh you can't have .7 of a book'. I said to myself, um sure you can. Rip out or self-publish .7 of a book.

I'm smarter than my web design teacher.

Only class I find challenge is chemistry. Well not right now. We are dealing with math! I'm really good at math.

wizardsrreal: We read about a book or two a marking period. Generally an analysis due a marking period. But most of the time, before our teacher left in the middle of the year, we had just intelligent conversations. Though we have talked about whether it's pet smart or pets mart, south park, and family guy. English was my favorite class lol.

[Jacq]

I watched almost six hours of live coverage (and afterparty) when the Phoenix Lander got to mars last may. And my boyfriend and I toasted a drink to its honour on november 2nd when it sent that little blip.

[Stormwind]

Geek? Me?!?!

I had a number of friends tell me that I was a geek... When I was in High School, I always had a book I was reading, and it didn't matter the class, if I found my attention was needed on the book (because the teacher wasn't teaching me anything new that day) I'd pull out my book and read. I could walk down the hall reading and never run into a single person. I follow after my dad and know a little about a lot, and a lot about the subjects I really care about.

I'm not any good in Math, but I love Chemistry and all the Sciences really, English is a strong suit, and I was at a College level of reading in elementary... So I guess I earned being called a Geek a few times. I've never really found it insulting. But I agree with an earlier post about someone only offering a dime to do their homework... did they think you didn't have any skills in calculating how much time it would take to do your homework and their's?

I now have my degree in Forensics, and I have to say that I love that topic and will be learning more every year that I'm alive. It is always so facinating to me to be able to look at something, and solve the puzzle...