Are you a geek, like me?

@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Jan 16

Yes! A lot of what I work on is walnut, a lovely wood.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (472251)

• Switzerland

9 Jan 16

I am not a geek, my husband is. I remember that we visited every year the CES in Las Vegas when he was an Apple Developer. He also loves music, I our stereo speakers are Marantz, the record players is an old Zenith of the end of the 60s.

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hereandthere

@hereandthere (45645)

• Philippines

9 Jan 16

gosh, we had a zenith tv.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (472251)

• Switzerland

9 Jan 16

@hereandthere It was a great brand back in times.

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@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Jan 16

Zenith can sound really good, especially if it has tubes. My parents had an old Magnavox console in my early childhood that sounded great. It had tubes in it.

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Belle Starr (Iz)

@BelleStarr (61101)

• United States

9 Jan 16

I am just a geek, I am a history , genealogy geek for sure.

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@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Jan 16

That sounds like an interesting hobby.

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Belle Starr (Iz)

@BelleStarr (61101)

• United States

9 Jan 16

@TheHorse genealogy, it is and I am totally addicted.

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@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Jan 16

@BelleStarr I like to read about my great-great-grandfather, who was a settler in Montana, but that's about it.

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crazyhorseladycx

@crazyhorseladycx (39509)

• United States

9 Jan 16

awesome setup! need'n 8-track player to go with it? jest kiddin', wouldn't part with it, though wish i could find some new tapes fer it :D don't reckon i've e'er thought'f myself's a geek. eccentric perhaps...

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@DaddyEvil (138106)

• United States

9 Jan 16

Eccentric? YOU? No, way!

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@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Jan 16

I don't think the fidelity of 8-track was that great. Not sure, though.

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Inlemay

@Inlemay (17713)

• South Africa

9 Jan 16

I must be a Geek like you then - i love most of the things you mention - I have hundreds of LP's - and have a brilliant collection of Elvis'

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@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Jan 16

Yep, I still have my old LPs. To me, they sound better than CDs, except for the scratches.

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Inlemay

@Inlemay (17713)

• South Africa

10 Jan 16

@TheHorse ahhhh the scratches - they always seem to happen on the best places during the play time

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@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

10 Jan 16

@Inlemay I can still re remember where the scratches are on some of my old LPs.

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Morley Hunt

@Morleyhunt (21744)

• Canada

9 Jan 16

Vintage sewing machines....I rescue them, clean them and give them new life.

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@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Jan 16

That's a cool one. There's a really nice one at the old house up at Borges Ranch, where I sometimes take the kids I work with. It's black and has that classic look. It may be a Singer.

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (168932)

• Boise, Idaho

9 Jan 16

I'm an old movie geek myself. Nothing too frilly.

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (168932)

• Boise, Idaho

10 Jan 16

@TheHorse ..He did some good ones but I like lots of others too.

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@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

10 Jan 16

@celticeagle Any '50s and '60s suggestions I might have missed?

@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Jan 16

I could easily become one as well. I love old Hitchcock films.

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Your Highness Emperor Albert Whisker

@CaptAlbertWhisker (32748)

• Calgary, Alberta

9 Jan 16

I am more of a Comic Book, Anime, videogames and technology type of geek. I have obsession with science fiction too. I use to do cosplays as a teen but now I am 30 I stopped.

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Your Highness Emperor Albert Whisker

@CaptAlbertWhisker (32748)

• Calgary, Alberta

10 Jan 16

@TheHorse I now purchase them in digital ebook form because my Apartment is kind of small.

@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Jan 16

That's a good one. Comic books are a good area for geekdom. There's actually a good comic book store near where I live.

Jabo

@jaboUK (64354)

• United Kingdom

9 Jan 16

I don't know what the opposite of geek is, but whatever it is that's what I am.

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Jabo

@jaboUK (64354)

• United Kingdom

9 Jan 16

@TheHorse It means I am no good at, have no interest in, don't understand,

geeky stuff

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@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Jan 16

Hmm. I'd have to think about that. Is non-geekdom defined by going with the flow? Not having an unusual hobby? Or just being too cool for words no matter what you do?

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@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Jan 16

@jaboUK I think anything can be geeky if you're into it enouogh. I'm an acoustic guitar geek too.

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Marie

@Tampa_girl7 (50774)

• United States

9 Jan 16

My son has an old furniture piece stereo from the seventies. It is very pretty.

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@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Jan 16

It probably has real walnut wood on it. I love the grain.

@DaddyEvil (138106)

• United States

9 Jan 16

I'm honestly not interested in stereo equipment or really, in music in general... I can and do play the piano once in a while, but not to listen to the music, but as an exercise more to keep my hands nimble, than for any other reason. (Yes, I actually CAN play the piano.) I am into building and repairing computer equipment, programming (I more like to reverse engineer programs than anything else.) computers, playing with programming on Android and Microsoft phones. (iPhones are junk, IMHO!) I also like to help people repair their pc problems, phone problems and figuring out how things work.

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geek

@DaddyEvil (138106)

• United States

11 Jan 16

@TheHorse Okay, sir, I know you are somewhere around my age... to the best I can figure out from all the little clues you drop all over myLot. I ask you two times what your actual age was, but I am not asking any more.... You can just keep that little secret!

@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Jan 16

I reckon you qualify. A lot of the younguns that might have been stereo geeks in my day are computer geeks now.

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Ann LeFlore

@poehere (15123)

• French Polynesia

9 Jan 16

Wow I guess you could call me a computer geek. You don't know how many computers I actually have around here. Plus all the stuff to build and fix up more. I love working on computers and doing this. So in some ways I am sort of a computer geek and you are a stereo geek. I still have the very first color laptop computer ever made and it still runs on DOS and Windows 3.1. The little guy still boots up and runs like a charm. Now if you have all day long to wait on this then you are in luck.

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Wendy789

@Drosophila (16571)

• Ireland

11 Jan 16

@poehere HAHAHHA Windows 3.1! You're a gem

@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Jan 16

Tubes take awhile to warm up too.

Ann LeFlore

@poehere (15123)

• French Polynesia

9 Jan 16

@TheHorse I'm sure they do that's what makes them so interesting and fun. I bet if you asked some of the young people here what Windows 3.1 was they would have no idea at all.

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paigea

@paigea (36315)

• Canada

10 Jan 16

That sounds interesting. I don't think I am a geek at anything.

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@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

10 Jan 16

To me, it just means having a hobby that you're REALLY into.

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@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

17 Jan 16

@paigea Oh, that sounds like fun! I didn't start skiing until I was 21. I think my knees would howl, but I should give it a try. It's been years.

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paigea

@paigea (36315)

• Canada

16 Jan 16

@TheHorse Well if I lived closer to skiing then I would be a skiing Geek I guess. I will have my dream for one month this spring.

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fishtiger58

@fishtiger58 (29820)

• Momence, Illinois

9 Jan 16

I understand nothing about electronics. I don't think I'm a geek about anything really.

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@DaddyEvil (138106)

• United States

9 Jan 16

Would you like to be? I give lessons! LOL!

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@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Jan 16

@DaddyEvil I give lessons too. Just choose an interest, and get into it to the point of absurdity.

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fishtiger58

@fishtiger58 (29820)

• Momence, Illinois

9 Jan 16

@DaddyEvil haha now there's a thought.

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Wendy789

@Drosophila (16571)

• Ireland

10 Jan 16

I am quite the geek on tech stuff, pertaining to cloud computing

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Wendy789

@Drosophila (16571)

• Ireland

11 Jan 16

@TheHorse it's quite interesting and altogether very straightforward. Another thing I geek out on is Jung branch of psychology...not fraudian but Jung

@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

11 Jan 16

That's an area I know nothing about! Can you see the cloud when it floats by? Heh.

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JENNY ARCHER

@bookbar (1609)

• Sudbury, England

9 Jan 16

If you spoke English I might understand..

but this talk is way beyond my pea-brain, so I can't even pretend....sorry!!

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JENNY ARCHER

@bookbar (1609)

• Sudbury, England

9 Jan 16

@TheHorse Now that I call Sensible

... you're just an old injun, in stereo clothing...

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@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Jan 16

@bookbar I was trying to be American caveman. But OK.

@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Jan 16

OK OK. Is American English OK? Me like music. Me listen music on good stereo. You have silly hobby too? (smiley face emoticon)

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (61909)

• Centralia, Washington

9 Jan 16

I must be tone deaf. One system sounds pretty much the same to me.

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (61909)

• Centralia, Washington

9 Jan 16

@TheHorse I'm an unholy heathen. At least I have made the first step. I admit it.

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@TheHorse (220869)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Jan 16

The horror! Blasphemy! Heh.

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DianneN

@DianneN (247184)

• United States

17 Jan 16

Once a geek, always a geek. I come from a family of all kinds of geeks, all with various geek interests. My nephew just returned from Vegas promoting his 3D printer with his geek friends.

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