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I have voted myself a 'Serious Geek' but my staff think i should be a 'Mega Geek'
The reason ?
Recently one of our summer students bought a fridge for our ofice, no problem there.
Last week I created an SQL database for the fridges contents and some ASP pages to show its contents and consumption trends to users of our company intranet.
Users of the fridge must first scan their barcode ID with the barcode scanner prior to removing any items from the fridge, items are also scanned for stock control purposes.
When any item's stock level is low, the system emails to my pocket pc and adds a task to my task list to remind me to buy more stock.
Does this take me from 'Serious Geek' to 'Mega Geek' or not, that is the question ?
Help I think I might be a geek !!!!!
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Sorry to tell you this adrian, but the category to qualify your geekness is way off the scale 
Phil Harding
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You should make a website about this. How about "Cold Project" 
(2b || !2b)
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ba-dum *tish*
Nice one 
cheers,
Chris Maunder (CodeProject)
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As our fridge contains mostly a well known brand of soft drink we could call it:
'Coke Project'
Does anybody know where in the UK I can buy cans of 'Jolt-Cola' as we have a large project coming up in the next few weeks.
Adrian
Vrooooooooom !!!!!!!
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Great idea
I bet that when you tell people about it they say "you did WHAT?"
Currently we are redesigning our bedroom, new painting and that stuff. One day I told a friend that we were making "Bedroom Version 2.0".
He just looked at me like I was crazy, and probably thinking something about those crazy computer people...
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Currently we are redesigning our bedroom, new painting and that stuff. One day I told a friend that we were making "Bedroom Version 2.0".
You need any testers for an exhaustive Beta test?
Or are you one of those guys who delegate all testing to their end users...
--
Daniel Lohmann
http://www.losoft.de
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Nope, *this* betatest I'll handle myself...
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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when making the grocery list make sure you write Cereal and not Serial... damn that happens all the time 
Joseph Dempsey
jdempsey@cox.rr.com
Joseph.Dempsey@thermobio.com
"Software Engineering is a race between the programmers, trying to make bigger and better fool-proof software, and the universe trying to make bigger fools. So far the Universe in winning."
--anonymous
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Erm....definitely Mega Geek.
Oh yeah, sometime you'll have to let me have a copy of that app.....
PS - Any relation to Andy who posts regularly? Just curious .
> Andrew
"Do you like my mask, it raises the dead...!"
-- Buffy (season 3, Giles)
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I think a tutorial session is required, anybody realy need to know about fridge/sql/asp/madness ?
Adrian
ps
No I am not related to Andy as far as I know.
--> I used to be a fish but my bowl cracked
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Dude, three words for you: Seek Professional Help
--Mike--
http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/
Ford: How would you react if I said that I'm not from Guildford after all, but from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelguese?
Arthur: I don't know. Why, do you think it's the sort of thing you're likely to say?
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Users of the fridge must first scan their barcode ID with the barcode scanner prior to removing any items from the fridge
And this is the most interesting part. How do you enforce this rule?
Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
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We have a hand-held scanner that we use to scan people and product.
If a person does not scan themselves or the product they take, I hit them with a big stick.
Adrian
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We have a hand-held scanner that we use to scan people
So people have to have barcodes somewhere. Are you tatooing them?
I hit them with a big stick.
C'mon - it's soooooo low-tech. Be more creative, in a really geeky fashion.
Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com
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For all you geeks: you may get your right equipment in this shop.
Regards,
Thomas
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Their caffeine products are great. The penguin mints are especially cool -- the energy boost of coffee or soda, without the annoying frequent urge to use the bathroom!
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Non-geeks visiting this site? I think only our parents would qualify for that category.
(PS: hi mom)
--Mike--
http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/
Ford: How would you react if I said that I'm not from Guildford after all, but from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelguese?
Arthur: I don't know. Why, do you think it's the sort of thing you're likely to say?
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I know a couple of non-geeks visiting this site once in a while.
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Have you seen the Wrox books with the authors on the cover ? Every VB book I have seen ( from browsing big bookstores and getting lost, of course ) has some clean cut guy in a suit on the cover - he's NOT a geek. My ATL/COM book has Richard Grimes and four others photographed on the cover and those guys exude geekness. So I'd submit to you that all three people on the VB forum are definately NOT geeks.
Christian
As I learn the innermost secrets of the around me, they reward me in many ways to keep quiet.
Men with pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought Jewellery.
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I have friends outside the computer world who call me a geek and expect me to be insulted. I say wear that badge with pride !!! But I went the second geekiest, I don't know Pi terribly far, and although I can talk in hex to a degree, I'm not fluent.....
Christian
As I learn the innermost secrets of the around me, they reward me in many ways to keep quiet.
Men with pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought Jewellery.
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Agreed, Christian. Geek ain't no insult.
As for pi, I can remember a few digits because there was a Simpsons episode where these two kids in a gifted school sang "cross my heart and hope to die, these are the numbers that make up pi. 3.1415926535897" (they kept on going, that's all I remember)
--Mike--
http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/
Ford: How would you react if I said that I'm not from Guildford after all, but from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelguese?
Arthur: I don't know. Why, do you think it's the sort of thing you're likely to say?
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GO Ludolph Van C!!!
font size=2>eternal student
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the 'net and he won't bother you for weeks.
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Those who claim to be (with pride) aren’t. Those who deny it the most, are.
If you think many of your co-workers and friends are geeks, then guess what… so are you.
http://www.youmightbe.com/pages/computergeek.html
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No no, those who deny it are "nerds"
--Mike--
http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/
Ford: How would you react if I said that I'm not from Guildford after all, but from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelguese?
Arthur: I don't know. Why, do you think it's the sort of thing you're likely to say?
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