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Baron Grim Posted Mar 16, 2010
I've seen this one here before (about the nose/thumb relation) and to add the obligatory addendum...
You just checked, didn't you?
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fords - number 1 all over heaven Posted Mar 17, 2010
Your armspan from fingertip to fingertip is your actual height.
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swl Posted Mar 17, 2010
Is this nerdy or geeky? I get the two confused
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_h937HNtz6ek/S1QxkEpLdiI/AAAAAAAASQQ/KxH9YSDbYCI/s400/vitruvian-man-05.jpg
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Baron Grim Posted Mar 17, 2010
SWL... the Vitruvian Storm Trooper would qualify as nerdy.
This is geeky:
http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/54500/Vitruvian-PI--54875.jpg
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swl Posted Mar 17, 2010
Ah - so
nerdy = interesting and funny,
geeky =
geeky =
geeky =
????
geeky = something way too intelligent for me obviously.
I seem to have found my level 
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Persephone - Creator of the best typos around! Posted Mar 17, 2010
Enough with the links, most of them don't work for me anyway 
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Baron Grim Posted Mar 17, 2010
Nerdy and geeky have a lot of overlap but Star Wars stuff definitely qualifies as more nerd than geek. I was trying to find something that would fit as more computer/gamer geek but when I saw that Pi image I decided maths geek was appropriate as well. I'd say that geek implies a more refined or specialized quality of nerdiness and with less social acceptance.
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Persephone - Creator of the best typos around! Posted Mar 17, 2010
So how would you class someone who knows way too much about star wars, star trek and star gate, but also does a lot of sciency stuff and has computer geek knowledge?
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Moonhogg - Captain Coffee Break Posted Mar 17, 2010
Thanks - I was eating my lunch when I read that, and nearly spat my pizza over the table!! A colleague was ready to give me the heimlich manoeuvre, she thought I was choking!
She suggests that a need us a wannabe geek...
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Moonhogg - Captain Coffee Break Posted Mar 17, 2010
The geeks took the 'r' out to use in the equation with pi...
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