The Nerd Handbook
Great essay about understanding and wrangling your pet nerd by Rands In Repose:
A majority of the folks on the planet either have no idea how a computer works or they look at it and think “it’s magic”. Nerds know how a computer works. They intimately know how a computer works. When you ask a nerd, “When I click this, it takes awhile for the thing to show up. Do you know what’s wrong?” they know what’s wrong.
Your nerd has control issues. Your nerd lives in a monospaced typeface world. Whereas everyone else is traipsing around picking dazzling fonts to describe their world, your nerd has carefully selected a monospace typeface, which he avidly uses to manipulate the world deftly via a command line interface while the rest fumble around with a mouse.
While I really wouldn’t want this to all be true about me, there’s definitely a lot of plain facts layed out. Great read if you are or know some serious nerds (with a bent towards tech pros/programmers specifically).
(via. Lindsay, photo from Mental Floss)
It scary that nerds can actually start debugging problems when something goes wrong. “Ok, so is the screen on? what do you see?… ” I love it.
I am shocked and pleased at how real and true this article is… I feel like it’s talking about ME directly. A+!
Thanks for the link :)