Your Inner Nerd

Cash_Stronomer · May 29, 2016

Who's a Nerd? I certainly am! And I realized tonight just how much Nerd was in me, as I was wandering the interwebs looking at short wave radio and such, and I stumbled upon a Radio Shack archive of Catalog's, Videos and history from 1939 - 2005!

Enjoy (if it's your thing) :thumbup1:

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalog_directory.html

redslayer8585 · May 29, 2016

I can't really relate to the radio shak stuff but my wife just rolls her eyes and walks away when I start rambling about the ancient astronaut theory and how the universe ticks. Now, I'm not saying I'm well versed in either but it's intriguing, none the less. I guess I'm an incognito nerd as none of my friends know that side of me.

wazabees · May 29, 2016

I'm an IT nerd. And a TV-show nerd. And a movie nerd.

Billski · May 29, 2016

I am doing some learning about the Russo Japanese War, which took place in 1904 and 1905.

Does that mean that I am a nerd?

Few people know about this was which took place before the First World War.

Cash_Stronomer · May 29, 2016

Ancient Astronaut Theory. An interesting conversation starter. Not something I can pretend to agree with, but it really gets the mind rolling, and it does a great job getting people interested and researching the actual or possible history that otherwise would not!

adamchur · May 30, 2016

I always get branded as a nerd whenever I try to hold an intelligent conversation about DE shaving with anybody who is uninitiated in the fine art of Old School wet shaving !!

I also get regarded as a bit of a nerd when I try to engage anyone in a conversation about Vostok Amphibian 200m Automatic Diver Watches from Russia - Even as I'm typing this, I've got a black dial 110 on my wrist
(and a Black dial 060, Blue/Black dial 100, Black Scuba Dude 710 and a Blue Numeric dial 090 in my wrist rotation)

People often roll their eyes if I share my knowledge about James Bond films, especially if I try to compare the films to the original books by Ian Fleming

Very few people share my enthusiasm for Country Music, the very few who'll even admit to liking Country, often misname it as "Country & Western"(I hate that), although some claim to be Johnny Cash fans, nobody seems to know who I'm talking about when I mention names like Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Chris LeDoux or occasionally even Garth Brooks - Oddly though, they often recognise their songs !!

But top of the list..........

Anybody who knows me has banned me from even mentioning the name "Mafia Wars", some have even declared Facebook a taboo subject !!

mrb7 · May 30, 2016

Man, the old Radio Shack catalogs were great. As were the old Radio Shacks.

I can remember wandering around in the one in Kinston, NC as a child just fascinated as all get out.

Somehow I wound up on several of the mailing lists, and I would get the RS catalog, the Allied catalog until the merger with RS, and the Lafayette catalog.

And once I landed in ET school in the Navy many of the things that had previously been facts I knew became principles I understood.

Nerds rule. Even old nerds.

BSAGuy · May 30, 2016

Very cool link, Cash. Thanks for posting.

Cash_Stronomer · May 30, 2016

adamchur said:
I always get branded as a nerd whenever I try to hold an intelligent conversation about DE shaving with anybody who is uninitiated in the fine art of Old School wet shaving !!

I also get regarded as a bit of a nerd when I try to engage anyone in a conversation about Vostok Amphibian 200m Automatic Diver Watches from Russia - Even as I'm typing this, I've got a black dial 110 on my wrist
(and a Black dial 060, Blue/Black dial 100, Black Scuba Dude 710 and a Blue Numeric dial 090 in my wrist rotation)

People often roll their eyes if I share my knowledge about James Bond films, especially if I try to compare the films to the original books by Ian Fleming

Very few people share my enthusiasm for Country Music, the very few who'll even admit to liking Country, often misname it as "Country & Western"(I hate that), although some claim to be Johnny Cash fans, nobody seems to know who I'm talking about when I mention names like Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Chris LeDoux or occasionally even Garth Brooks - Oddly though, they often recognise their songs !!

But top of the list..........

Anybody who knows me has banned me from even mentioning the name "Mafia Wars", some have even declared Facebook a taboo subject !!

In my later 30's now, at work I'm one of the 'young guys'. I talk all the time about the things I play on guitar or load on the MP3 for the car. The ones I'm a little closer to at work are near retirement and they never have a clue what I'm on about. For the record, I like a little Janis Martin, Jack Scott, things like that, or the more 'main stream' Buddy Holly or Bill Haley etc.. You should hear all the younger part timers when I have it going!

LewBleu · May 30, 2016

I read astronomy textbooks for the sheer pleasure it and bore people to death explaining the H-R diagram of stellar evolution to Astro-noobs. Nerd pride lives here!

Cash_Stronomer · May 30, 2016

LewBleu said:
I read astronomy textbooks for the sheer pleasure it and bore people to death explaining the H-R diagram of stellar evolution to Astro-noobs. Nerd pride lives here!

Have you heard of Pamela Gay? Her Astronomy Cast podcast is awesome :thumbup1:

riverblue · May 31, 2016

I don't know if this effects anyone else but I'm kind of into shaving :blushing:

BradWorld · May 31, 2016

I basically make video games for a living, and travel the world deploying them at events. So I'm a nerd for sure. Plus I like Star Wars AND Star Trek!

wazabees · May 31, 2016

BradWorld said:
Plus I like Star Wars AND Star Trek!

But what if you had to choose just one?? :blink:

Oh, and who would win in a fight? Kirk (Shatner) or Picard? :001_smile

Cash_Stronomer · May 31, 2016

Star Trek. Obviously! .... And, Kirk!

Inari7 · May 31, 2016

Pre-Dreadnoughts are cool!!

Billski said:
I am doing some learning about the Russo Japanese War, which took place in 1904 and 1905.

Does that mean that I am a nerd?

Few people know about this was which took place before the First World War.

jamesspo · May 31, 2016

Oh yeah, major nerd here. Electronics, computers and software professionally and as hobbies. Ham Radio. I pretty much only read textbooks - advanced mathematics and physics mostly, but a zillion other topics as well. Yep, nerd.

dws · May 31, 2016

Music.... As much as I can absorb. Whether it be listening or making my own. I like various musical instruments and have taken on trying to learn a few on a basic level. My primary hobby/passion is bass and guitar.

Big time nerd

LewBleu · May 31, 2016

Cash_Stronomer said:
Have you heard of Pamela Gay? Her Astronomy Cast podcast is awesome

I know her podcast very well! Many cloudy night have been spent listening to Dr. Gay. :thumbup:

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