Are You a Nerd, Dork, Geek or Hipster?
Last night I attended a seminar on how to apply for a very competitive, high stakes, complicated grant. This grant is so difficult to complete that just being able to finish it is part of the attrition process. Needless to say in order to fit in with the rest of the 100s of ambitions potential high-brow candidates I wore my big nerdy glasses.
Sitting there looking around I realized egg-heads don't wear big nerdy glasses anymore... Hipsters do.
Remember the original egg-head?
Well my friends, not only did Einstein figure out relativity, and all that stuff about mass and energy (see. Stevie), but he set the template for Hipsterism.
I had a moment of visual-identity crisis, when I realized I wasn't actually a geek or a nerd. So I tweeted into the universe while sandwiched between a well groomed young woman in a salmon colored dress and young man in a pressed dress shirt.
Diana Cage tweeted back this Venn diagram to me:
While this handy diagram my not address the dress-code on the dork-geek continuum, it does put the psychology into perspective. And P to the S, being Hipster is totally douchie.
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At least fashionable eyewear has glass now...
Remember that little trend in the late nineties of wearing dark frames with no glass? The purely decorative frame?
At least nowadays, alt eyewear HAS glass, but I sometimes wonder if they are really prescription?
When I do need to wear glasses, I want bendy frames.
Good idea
That way they don't get crunched during the Turkish oil wrestling.
LOL
Not2Taem, I'll keep that in mind, LOL
Does this mean Grace is an
Does this mean Grace is an eyewear trendsetter? The rest of the world is finally catching up with styles she's already exhausted? Maybe we should start paying more attention to what else Grace is wearing? DapperQ seems to have been on the right track when they featured her on their site!
My family genes and upbringing come with a huge dose of nerd. I gave up trying to be hip a while ago and now just try to not freak out more hipster friends too much.
Oh, but we do.
The glasses. The pearl buttons. Th VP drawers... It's endless, really.
Social ineptness can be very
Social ineptness can be very charming.
Nerd.
If that does it for you,
we shoud get together.
Dweeb?!
I am occasionally socially inept but I don't think I obsess. I also don't think I'm a dweeb. I want a new venn diagram!
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Dwerb
Yes, I'm a dwerb
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Let me guess
The obsession only sets in with cleavage?
No dork
I think I must waver between being a geek and nerd. But I'm definitely not a dork. Except sometimes.
Civility is not a sign of weakness.
I think Not2Taem
is right, your a nerd. lol
I'm a geek for sure. The only reason I've been leaning towards social ineptitude lately is because I really needed a holiday... and it was making me a complete asshole to be around. A hipster to me is someone who is obsessed, not really intelligent and thinks everyone should see things their way a.k.a. Whatever way the popular counter-culture sees things - and thinks your stupid if you don't agree.
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Obsession?
What exactly would put one in the obsession category? Is an obsession with matching socks in the same category as an obsession with Lady Gaga?
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Clearly a nerd
According to the diagram you are a nerd. You were obsessed with getting the grant, socially inept in your wardrobe selection, and intelligent enough to phone a femme. All is well with the world.
Touche
Yep.
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