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How do you describe Instructables?
Could everyone help us out in a huge way by answering one question for us? How do you describe Instructables to your friends? Thanks in advance for your input and honesty!
Could everyone help us out in a huge way by answering one question for us? How do you describe Instructables to your friends? Thanks in advance for your input and honesty!
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13 years ago
Most my freinds aren't into this stuff but to the few that are I just say "Imagine all the nerds from every high school across the world on one site, then add into that all the people who are grown up nerds... and the knex kids"
Reply 13 years ago
I don't know about nerds.....geeks maybe ;-) Geeks have prowess, nerds are normally socially awkward, etc.
Reply 13 years ago
Agreed. I'm offended by "nerd", but not by "geek" :P
(It takes a geek to understand that :P)
Then again, sometimes ADJ+geek doesn't sound as good as ADJ+nerd, in that case I can accept ADJ+nerd. (i.e., although it doesn't apply to me yethopefully... "MIT Geek" sounds funny, but "MIT Nerd" is a bit better, due to an alliteration-type thing... Mm nn, close enough)
Reply 13 years ago
Test: do you own a "pocket protector" LOL Besides, there is a candy by the name of Nerds.... ;-)
Reply 13 years ago
No, I don't. I hate the shirts with the pocket there... I think we went over this already :P (maybe that was Kiteman...)
Reply 13 years ago
Ah, before "my time" (here) LOL I am normally (75% of the time) in a "dress shirt" of sorts. I hate pen leaks on my white shirts LOL
Reply 13 years ago
What about caps?
I use pencils mostly for school, as you need them for Math, and I'm carrying it around anyway, so why make my load any heavier? :P
I do love nice pens though... ones with incredibly fine tips.
I'm normally (99% of the time, except dressy/formal occasions) in just a plain solid-colored T-shirt, (longsleeved in winter). I'm so bland, but I don't mind :P
Reply 13 years ago
Cyber-high-five for utilitarian clothing! Do you complement the t-shirt with a pair of jeans, too?
Reply 13 years ago
*cyber-high-five* Jeans - no. I actually can't stand 'em. I wear kacki-like (sp) shorts/pants depending on the time of year.
Reply 13 years ago
*cyber pound-it* I'm totally with you on that one.
Reply 13 years ago
...that was... random?
Reply 13 years ago
What I meant was that I can't stand jeans either.
Reply 13 years ago
CYBER HIGH FIVES?! :( I thought I escaped high fives, but no, here they are again. They are so scary.
Reply 13 years ago
Hmm... High-FOURS!? We'll prevent our pinkies from touching ;-) *high fours*
Reply 13 years ago
Not hight fours because the Instructables robot only has 4 fingers?
Reply 13 years ago
Sense make did no that.
Reply 13 years ago
Robot has 4 fingers. I assumed that was why the high four would have replaced the high five.
Reply 13 years ago
Hm...
Lets just do HIGH SHABANG! (Shabangs are my favorite ASCII character combo)
#!
Reply 13 years ago
I prefer high tilda's but i'll humour you. #!
Reply 13 years ago
~!!!!VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!!!
#!
Reply 13 years ago
VIVA
Reply 13 years ago
So, where's the shirt?
Reply 13 years ago
In the pipeline :D
Reply 13 years ago
Thats AWESOME :D
Reply 13 years ago
<3 The GIMP I may get a T-shirt of that (ULTIMATE IN-JOKE!)
Reply 13 years ago
YES! That would ROCK! Maybe you'd run into Lemonie/Goodhart/Kiteman?
Reply 13 years ago
Hmmm Tilda's are normally used (in the cyber world) for waving (many times waving goodbye, like
:-) )Reply 13 years ago
Hey! Who crossed out my smiley ?
Reply 13 years ago
Oh I see, so when I put tildas ~ ~ ~ ~ smack up against one another, they did the crossing out Sigh.
Reply 13 years ago
THE EVIL TILDAS ARE TAKING OVER!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!1!eleven!!1!!!
Reply 13 years ago
Except in the Wiki formatting, two tildas crosses text out :P
Reply 13 years ago
(Another helpless thread falls victim to HIJACKING!!) 14/44 posts are actually ON topic >_>
Reply 13 years ago
Ah I love to hijack threads. And it all stemmed from a simple statement about nerds (a word coined by Dr Seuss nonetheless).
Reply 13 years ago
I blame Dr. Seuss for this then. It wasn't me at all!
Reply 13 years ago
Nor me. Damn cat and his hatting ways.
Reply 13 years ago
Still... so... awkward... life... force... draining... eep.
Reply 13 years ago
zachninme has stole your soul!
Would you like to buy it back from him for 31.1492634425 million dollars?
Reply 13 years ago
No. :( Keep it. It'll just bring you bad luck anyway!
Reply 13 years ago
Since I own your soul now, I am going to force you to pay me 31.1492634426 million dollars!
MUHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Reply 13 years ago
How about a scrubs-esque sterile high five?
Reply 13 years ago
Thats exactly what I'm wearing right now (kacki shorts with a lamb of god t shirt) but in the winter I prefer jeans
Reply 13 years ago
LOL Most of my "t-shirts" have pockets too. It is almost mandatory if I am to pay very much for them ;-)
Reply 13 years ago
If you carry a pen long enough, you will find one (eventually quite a few) that leak ( I prefer retractable pens, they are more convenient). Even capped pens have been known to leak, fill the pen with ink and then seep out the little breather hole in the side Where I work would not think to highly of my use of a pencil, and capped pens have have the cap taken off and then put back on (oh the miseries of life, eh? LOL). But I do a lot of quick notation and it really is more convenient to just click and write.
Reply 13 years ago
I'm also usually in a dress shirt (and jeans). I hate pocket protectors and pen leaks, so I rarely carry a pen. :)
Reply 13 years ago
I suppose with me it is habit mostly. I pretty much must use a pen at work; I am the member of our family that signs most everything legal, and so, like not having a watch, I feel naked without the pen,
and also at least my pocket calendar, although I rarely have a p-protector anymore (my glasses case used to serve that purpose too, but it is hard to find ones that small anymore ;-( ).
Reply 13 years ago
I think that was in the iPhone Disassembly comments, which, coincidentally, somebody just added to.
Reply 13 years ago
No... the only comment I made was about Weiss's utility belt falling down after he "LMAO" 'd
Reply 13 years ago
I don't know what the definition of a nerd is, but I know that Geek is defined by, "One who preforms the act of decapitating a fowl with their mouth whilst on stage." Yeah, I like Geek better.
Reply 13 years ago
Describes me pretty well.
Reply 13 years ago
Describes him pretty well.