Where the heck does a girl find a nerd around here???

rootX

http://www.meetup.com/Dating-for-Ner...ents/16052800/



While coming home, I noticed their ad in a subway train.

JaredJames

Exactly.
You said yourself you don't want a classic nerd, you just want someone with that intelligence but with social ability thrown in. So it's no good looking in classic nerd hotspots really, is it?

Also, if you know they hang out in certain places why not ask your peers where said places are? Someone around you is gonna give far better advice than us. Me telling you where to find a nerd in the UK is pretty much useless to you.

Hang on, you study physics and chemistry and can't find a nerd?
Don't believe that's what I said.

Simply pointing out that the best way to identify the nerds in my uni was to look for the ones constantly in their lab coats.

Physics Fan

I don't know what it's like now, but when I was in college (back in the dark ages) there was a scarcity of women engineering students. So depending on how much things have evened out (or not) since then, you might try hanging around the engineering department, if your school has one.

JaredJames

My year in engineering has about 50 males and 5 females.

Physics Fan

Other than my desk drawer, you might find one in a museum. (I feel really old now!)

jhae2.718

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/be12/

It's a sad thing that my first (and thus far only) contribution to a relationship thread is where to find a slide rule...

Pengwuino

Modern day slide-rules have nerdar, a detector used for finding nerds.

Vanadium 50

BobG

Here's another way to find nerds. Hold up a sign.
(Just don't do this on a busy street or it will defeat your purpose.)

http://xkcd.com/356/

Astronuc

I would imagine that one could wait outside the class for SR or QM or . . . . and find a group of individuals of interest.

I used to spend time in the reading room of the physics department. That's where the latest issues of various journals would be kept.

Or one could visit the EE or other engineering departments.

Or library.


I remember the problem of the infinite mesh of 1 ohm resistors.

FlexGunship

I'm pretty darn nerdy! I like trivia contests, and building things, and I'm an engineer and my bookshelf is full of Brian Greene and Michio Kaku books!

EDIT: Yes, that is a periodic table shower curtain in my condo.



I'm sure I could reduce your coefficient of friction with a little acoustic exchange, baby girl. I'm full of useless knowledge, and I can turn every single fact into innuendo.

Cute? Some people think I'm cute... sometimes. I'm 5'11" and I can pull the ears off of a gundark.


NEW ZEALAND?! Blech! Sorry, I'm in the States. Unless you want to have an internet relationship until you get up the courage to here, I don't know if I can help.

webbwbb

Try applying for some type of job with a local engineering firm. Even if you don't get the job you will have a good reason to be there and every person you meet will be a total nerd.

Astronuc

Find one of these, and a nerd is nearby.



To initiate a conversation, causally mention the term "pentode".

JaredJames

Speaking from experience there?

In fact, my experience was the total opposite. Only a few nerds, well, one, well, two if you count me (I don't but others would disagree).

Vanadium 50

Astronuc, pentode, schmentode. What one really needs is a Nixie Tube watch.



Only $395.

BobG

And, believe it or not, you can sometimes find nerds in a store aisle searching for razors or shaving cream.

Did I ever tell you you're a hippy? In the last couple weeks, at least?

(But, he's a hippy nerd and that's an important distinction.)

turbo

I built a crude web-site to help other tube-nuts identify the various vacuum tubes by their physical characteristics. The paint on the envelope is not reliable, since the manufacturers often sub-contracted large contracts out to their competitors. Hosted by a good friend of mine who works at Berkeley.

Old 12AX7's and their variants can sometimes be found in really good condition at ham-club swap meets. They are highly prized by people like myself who repair or restore old guitar amps. The trick is to know what you're looking at - for instance not to pay $$ for a reproduction Telefunken when it can be ruled out as a repo worth maybe a couple of bucks.

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~loarie/12ax7.html