Ok fellow geeks and geekettes, there we have a project - the translation of the "what" into action, bypassing the interface between the brain and the body's biomechanics!

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Dianne
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Saw the thread title and thought for sure it was now my dream come true--a whole ice show devoted to nerdiness!! (There was some discussion in another forum about which skaters were "nerds" or "geeks" after a post-Olympics fanvid came out with Matt Savoie described as "artsy and nerdy" or something like that.)

I don't know how science-y nerdy I am any more (had aspirations to become a vet but naah). I used to watch Nova all the time and I remember watching Carl Sagan's series "Cosmos" (is that what it was called?) with my mom, but physics was my least favorite scientific subject (human biology all the way!!!). However, I do read scientific studies for a living. I read my National Geographics cover to cover (unless an article is about insects or spiders). I've read many "great books" in the last several years just because I didn't get to read/study them in college and really wanted to. I married a total computer/tech geek. (Who hauled me to a sci-fi convention once, on a 'surprise date.' Wow, was that an eye-opener.)

Oh, and I play the violin.

Am I in the club?

I still want to see some elite skater do an exhibition to "White and Nerdy," by the way. Jeff Buttle would do : )

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Raises hand. Count me in. I'm in a medical field, love to scuba dive, am a huge reader and actually enjoyed the renaissance festival this year after my engineer boyfriend dragged me there.

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Happily defying the laws of physics when I skate...and not in a good way

If I could meet ole Axel Paulsen, I would kick him in the teeth

President and Founding member of the I hate Toe-Loops Club

Still a member, but trying to get out of the Pre-bronze peanut gallery.

Visit my skating journal

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And if you want REAL proof of my geekiness... I've been to Star Trek conventions.... *shhhhhhh*

Heh heh, so have I Here are my qualifications:

1) I'm a computer engineer and work with rocket scientists (literally)
2) Star Trek and Star Wars were major influences on my life growing up
3) I own the very first copy of Justice League of America from 1962 as one of the jewels in a comic book collection that is worth around 7 or 8 grand
4) I strikeout with women
5) I've met and had my picture taken with:
5.1 William Shatner
5.2 Leonard Nimoy
5.3 Nichelle Nichols
5.4 George Takei
5.5 Walter Koenig
5.6 The guy who played "Jaws" in the James Bond movies
5.7 The chick who played the Romulan commander in the episode where Kirk steals the cloaking device
5.7 Last and certainly not least, I've met catwoman!!! Yes, Lee Meriweather. Meeee-ow!
6) I still have a commodore VIC 20
7) Superman is my hero (I have a superman figure in the backseat of my car at all times)
8) I too can get my hands on a slide rule
9) My cat is named "Tycho". The one before him was "Galileo". The next one will be "Hubble"
10) I enumerate my geeky qualities in logical fasion
11) When I visit new cities I head for the museums (and rinks) and not the bars or night spots.
12) I live on junk food (not quite sure how I'm still alive)
13) Did I mention I strikeout with women? When they aren't looking through me, they look at me and go, "Eeewwww, a geek!"
14) I have a 12 year old twinkie on my desk at work. It's sort of a science experiment.
15) I loved the movie, "Revenge of the Nerds". I know the lyrics to the title song by heart..."If they call you dork, a spaz or a geek stand up and be proud don't be meek! Hey beautiful people haven't you heard, the time has come for revenge of the nerds...."

Kevin

One of you should skate to that music. It's really funny.

I never got past grade 9 science because well, at the time you had to take biology. I was allergic to the formaldehyde that was in the biology room and just couldn't breathe in there when I went to check out the subject, just before I was to decide what I would take for grade 10. I didn't know I was asthmatic then. They wouldn't let me take physics course without taking biology course first. Now they do but back then they wouldn't. I did have a A in science back in grade 9 without studying.

My brain does want to know the reason, cause and effect for each thing I do on the ice, especially when I make a mistake on the ice. My secondary coach is great in telling me all this. And it really helps.

I work on my computer to edit and remaster music. I play recorder, flute, guitar, electric bass, violin and keyboard.

The only way that made sense to me when learning to read was to add the letter sounds together because it was more like math. Also grammer is easy for me as well because grammer uses words/parts of speech to make sentences in the same way an equation uses numbers and/or letters.

I took university bound math in highschool even though I was only going to go to college just because I found the college bound math borring and too easy.

Accounting Certificate from college. If I didn't have children I was going to become a CGA (certified general accountant). I've two children.

Forgot to add: When I was dating my husband our song that we both like and to which we roller bladed was "She Blinded Me With Science" by Thomas Dolby. I dare any of you male geeks to use "She Blinded Me With Science" for your interpretive FS. Would love to see it too, if I could.

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I am a nomadic adult skater who is a member of Windsor FSC (Skate Windsor) WOS SC again since Sept. 1st, 2008.

http://eastcastlemusic.tripod.com

Singerskates Sports Music Editing

Kander, I'll see your "major influence by Star Trek" on your life, and I'll raise with these photos of myself:

Oh yeah I wanted to be like Janeway so much I wanted her hairdo and drew pics of her during classes:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/121/2...67015fee71.jpg
I also was a fan of the Robert Beltran messageboard...

My boyfriend and I recently discussed how to make a home stargate on the wall. We thought maybe build it against the wall, we thought put coloured LED-lights on the back of it so to project a water-ripple on the wall... ROTFLMAO. What do you guys think?

OH OH OH!!! Do any of you know Sev Trek?!!!!!

I'm loving this thread.

Well I tend to think less of the word torque but I do analyze alot of things on the ice. Alot has become 3-D concepts in my head now. Like the state I should be in before a jump, during and after a jump.
I have two states on the ice. One where I do things with understanding, the other where I just do it. It is possible for me not to analyse but I am not sure which is better to be analytical or not.

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Pssst. Does getting dragged into Star Trek conventions b/c DH was a Trekker count? (Is "trekker" now the right term? I was told "trekkie" is passe?)

One of the two times I was dragged into going to a Star Trek convention by hubby was when Patrick Stewart was there! I didn't get to meet Patrick Stewart or get an autograph (it wasn't allowed), but I did get his attention -- I asked him during the Q&A "How does it feel to be a sex symbol?" (This erupted into HUGE amounts of applause, cheers and laugher. I *know* there was a section of women who thought that he's hot, even though he's bald. It's that d*** British accent, I tell 'ya!!!) When he was leaving, I waved a pen and a book. He politely declined with a "no" head shake. I get the "Shucks!!!" gesture and he just gives me smile like "Awwww, I'm so sorry!!!" I think the other time I got an autograph from Wil Wheaton and the actress who played Deanna Troy just as they were starting on the Next Generation.

I can vouch for Kevin's comic book collection -- he used to always been on eBay going at those auctions!!! I think I contributed one of the Justice League comic once for Christmas. (And coin collection too! Don't forget that!!! NOTHING speaks nerd more than coin and stamp collecting.)

As for strikin' out with the women... Kevin, can't help 'ya there... though I did recall one of our mutual male friends slipping you his digits in your shoe at the rink, so you can't be all THAT bad!

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11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

I'm pretty nerdy too - I'm a patent attorney with a chemistry degree, and my coach is alway telling me that I over-analyze everything. I would probably be a better skater if I could shut off my mind while skating!

Geek And Proud Of It!

Yup. Very much a geek - but a more feeling than technical skater.

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I read and UNDERSTOOD Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" I wanted SO much to go into Physics but one can't make a living selling Quarks and electrons at a corner shop so I went into the related field of electronics. If I ever go back to university it will be for a degree in Physics!

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Dianne
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I'm not doing too badly selling muons and neutrinos, so there would appear to be a market out there somewhere. Its enough to keep me in skating lessons, anyway.

Then my DH is going into the wrong research in physics then. He can't get a job in physics either, so now he's a computer geek like me. (He studied astrophysics... and hates being in the computer field too, b/c it's BORING to him. Yeah, I don't blame him either! I'd rather be a musician myself but you know what they say about "starving musicians" and all.)

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Cheers,
jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

There are two other serious adult skaters here beside myself. Here's an excerpt from the resume of one of them. She's one of US!

Main Field: Theoretical Nuclear Physics

Current Research Interests:
Few-Nucleon Systems
Relativistic Effects in Few-Body Systems
Nuclear Reactions at Intermediate Energies
High Performance Computing

Selected Research Work:
Relativistic Three-Body Scattering
Operator form of 3H (3He) and its Spin Structure
Three-Body Scattering - Break-up Reactions
Study of Three-Body Forces in a Three-Body Bound State
Deuteron Spin Configurations
Incoherent Photoproduction of Eta-Meson from Deuterium near Threshold
Nuclear Reactions at Intermediate Energies

PhysicistOnIce: She's currently in Chicago where you are located doing research during her sabbatical. Have you seen another nuclear physicist on the ice with you? Is there a secret handshake?

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Bill Schneider

I wouldn't call myself a geek as you all do, but i overanalyze EVERYTHING, and i am a part-time children's librarian, so when parents or kids see me at the rink, it totally throws them for a loop, so i thoroughly enjoy the look on their faces! It is pricesless!

OMG! How come none of my friends have the least interest in physics!?? I thought it wasn't that unusual for a teenage girl to build a 1.5 MeV linear accelerator out of junk in her parent's basement (circa 1967)!

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Dianne
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You did that?!

(I'm sure I left my jaw lying around here somewhere...)

I did. It was the greatest collection of "junk"! It started with the electron gun carefully salvaged from a TV picture tube and bits, pieces from an old dental X-ray unit (including a 136KV transformer), and an old refrigeration compressor as a vacuum pump. It grew to about 20 feet long with the addition of a number of high frequency accelerator stages before it out-grew my vacuum pump's ability to keep the atmosphere thin enough to get useful current at the target.

I don't know why, but whenever the lights went out, even if the whole town went out, my mom would holler down stairs and ask me what I did!

Nothing like the smell of ozone in the evening .....

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Dianne
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I should update my profile, I'm now based back in the UK mostly full time.

My field is actually particle physics, so while I think I can guess where your friend works, I'm not sure that our paths have crossed.

A secret handshake sounds like a good idea!

Not a big geek, but a little geeky...I was a math major in undergrad along with another major in Sociology...I then got a masters in Education (Higher Education Administration). Last year, I had to stop myself from buying a calculus book from the bookstore...I enjoy the problem solving aspect of it...

I am planning on getting either a second masters or a Ph.D. If I do the second masters, I am thinking about Exercise Science and the Ph.D. would be in either Higher Education Administration or a program here called "Cultural Foundations of Education."

In terms of skating, I can be very technical in my execution (I'm thinking specifically about my moves in the field...brackets in the field and the slide chasse patterns), but I don't need to break everything down. And I'm so not technical and don't over analyze my freestyle....

Guys don't count!

I fold! I never dressed up. Although Nichelle Nichols once gave me the evil eye for walking out in the middle of a talk she was giving back in the 70s.

Have you ever made the ultimate fan trek to Las Vegas for the big convention they have at the Hilton?

Kevin

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Cheers,
jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

No, I've never been to America and as long as I keep skating, I doubt I'll have the money to, I think you guys understand!
(btw those ridges were home-made, I'm too cheap to buy anything - although I did have a Kazon fighter, the Liberty and the Enterprise as scale models before I gave them away when I moved from home to study).

RustyBlades:
You're like WHOA, you're better than McGuyver and Mythbusters combined, you should have your own tv show! AND you skate. McGuyver didn't skate!