Where Are You?

I’m not particularly obsessive, and I have some social skills, so my self-diagnosis is that I’m near the intersection of dweeb, nerd and geek, but not quite in any of them.

[Update a couple minutes later]

OK, I realize that it’s just a Venn diagram, and not quantitative in the way implied by my positioning. But I’m really not obsessive, so if I’m in any intersection, it would make me a dweeb.

9 thoughts on “Where Are You?”

  1. Dunno Rand can’t you be considered obsessive about space flight/orbital mechanics? Doesn’t that make you a Space nerd then.

  2. Dunno Rand can’t you be considered obsessive about space flight/orbital mechanics?

    [buzzzzzzzz]

    Nope.

    If that were true, there would be no posts here on any other subject.

  3. I love when smart guys who build rockets getting obsessed about whether or not they are obsessed.

    (it’s a repetative joke of mine.)

  4. I’m near the intersection of dweeb, nerd and geek, but not quite in any of them.

    That Venn diagram is a simplified version of a diagram of membership in three fuzzy logic sets. We more frequently see that sort of diagram as a color wheel. Imagine that Intelligence corresponds to red, Social Ineptitude corresponds to green, and Obsession corresponds to Blue, and that the degree of membership in the set is some hexadecimal value from 00 to FF.

    Everyone can find themselves somewhere on the chart, and as long as none of the parameters are 00 or FF then everyone is a little bit nerdy. Me? I’m smack dab in the middle of the diagram.

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