Dylan Meconis (quirkybird) wrote,
Dylan Meconis
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Nerd Taxonomy



I've been delivering a verbal version of this taxonomy for years now to the uninitiated. Technically, as long as you are passionately into something, you can correctly call yourself a "_______ Nerd"; but, when decontextualized from the safe haven of a prefix like "mountain biking" or "hi-fi equipment", we are left with the question: what is a NERD's nerd? How does that differ from being a GEEK? And what precisely is a DORK, although we all know it's bad?

Here are some of my basic posited elements of the three Houses of Nerd, in cartoon form. (Click to see the image at medium size, click again to see at full.)
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  • Sketchpost: Evan Dahm’s Bottle Woman

    I’ve realized lately that I haven’t been drawing much outside of comics and freelance work.  To heck with that!  If you’re going…

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