You Know You're A Nerd When:

[cubinator]

When you spend the better part of an hour trying to verify a claim that a flea can jump 100 cm in 0.002 seconds. (Conclusion: it seems a little sketchy.)

Edited September 28, 2018 by cubinator
I'll leave the fun math for you too

[kerbiloid]

When you feel seduced.

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Nerdmonette

[cubinator]

When "The Book of Geonosis" sounds entirely correct to you.

When you use lambda as a shorthand for half-life.

Edited October 4, 2018 by cubinator

[Tonka Crash]

You spent all afternoon in gdb debugging FORTRAN code you have no recollection of writing in the '90s.

[kerbiloid]

12 hours ago, cubinator said:

When you use lambda as a shorthand for half-life.

When you use a red crowbar ^*) to solve your problems.

^*) the red one - it's important

Edited October 5, 2018 by kerbiloid

[0111narwhalz]

When your solutions raise as many new problems as they fix.

[Delay]

I thought of a "new" algorithm for the Rubik's cube... while sleeping. It saves exactly 1 turn (my goal here is not to solve the cube in the fastest way possible, but rather to come up with unique algorithms - completely by myself).

So I guess "You Know You're A Nerd When:" you're spatial thinking is on point, even while you're sleeping?

[kerbiloid]

You're a nerd if you solve the cubic rubik without its disassembling.

[Tonka Crash]

:wq! means something to you.

[TeslaPenguin1]

when you custom-build model rockets, then make them in KSP.

[RealKerbal3x]

When you watch Star Trek (or any science fiction) and keep talking about it to people who’ve never seen it.

I say ‘Live long and prosper’ instead of ‘Bye, see you tomorrow’.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

When you teach yourself basic regex so you can check whether your 10 page English paper is any sentences starting with "This" or "The." Also when making two pages (beyond the 10) of citations is the easiest part.

When you write a program for a graphing calculator to factor polynomials to double check your work on tests.

[cubinator]

47 minutes ago, Mad Rocket Scientist said:

When you teach yourself basic regex so you can check whether your 10 page English paper is any sentences starting with "This" or "The."

Couldn't you just use CTRL+F?

[qzgy]

1 minute ago, cubinator said:

Couldn't you just use CTRL+F?

That would be the simple solution.

 

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

1 hour ago, cubinator said:

Couldn't you just use CTRL+F?

 

1 hour ago, qzgy said:

That would be the simple solution.

Exactly. If I was really feeling crazy I could just have read through it carefully. I feel like there was some reason I wanted to match line breaks though.

[kerbiloid]

When your cat knows orbital mechanics better than your colleagues.

[0111narwhalz]

On 7/9/2017 at 1:58 PM, 0111narwhalz said:

When you are excited by interesting new failure modes..

Yet more interesting new failure modes:

I suspect some kind of race condition.

[53miner53]

When you watch F1 mostly to see which teams can build the best car and make the best strategic decisions

[kerbiloid]

When you hate the Sun in Minecraft because it always moves straight and you can't build a working stonehenge.

[TheKorbinjer]

you hear the distant rumble of a plane and you look up at it, and bark

 

CESSNA 172!

And you're right about it.

[0111narwhalz]

When you've been forbidden to test consonant clusters for your conlang after midnight.

[Dark Junior]

When your GM is forced to ban all discussion of Star Wars canon in your Star Wars D&D game, because no one can agree on what should be canon.

[kerbiloid]

When you first time doubt in Santa.

[0111narwhalz]

When, to find your XKCD sleep schedule descriptor, you check your time zone's UTC offset by looking at the launch schedule for the local rocket launch facility.

[cubinator]

When you think limestone is way too existential for a bathroom stall wall.

Seriously, I didn't go in there to think about the waves crashing on a shore that would be absent of humans for three hundred million years. I went in there to relieve myself. It caught me off guard.