you know you are a geek when...

[Thimplum]

...you start an online community, primarily dedicated to computer keyboards.

QFT

[rowdy]

...you start an online community, primarily dedicated to computer keyboards.

QFT

You know what all these abbreviations mean, especially when someone says QFR and someone else says QFT you like totally follow the conversation.

[noisyturtle]

You attend a college that holds a Pokemon X Y launch party and the staff sends email invitations to every student.

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

...you suddenly realize the mouse you are using costs $115 new.

http://www.universal-business.com/P479/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=18817&Alias=UniversalBusiness&SPRID=10135693&ItemID=2193701&AID=-1

[Thimplum]

...you start an online community, primarily dedicated to computer keyboards.

QFT

You know what all these abbreviations mean, especially when someone says QFR and someone else says QFT you like totally follow the conversation.

QFT=quoted for truth

[Tym]

He knows... Re-read what he put.

[rowdy]

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[YoungMichael88]

Your biggest fear is if you die your family will sell your keyboard stuff for what you told them you paid.

[jdcarpe]

Your biggest fear is if you die your family will sell your keyboard stuff for what you told them you paid.

This is a real thing. You missed my Keyboard Estate Planning thread from about a year ago.

[UniClown]

I don't know if it has been mentioned yet.

...When you frequent an online forum called GeekHack

[SpAmRaY]

I don't know if it has been mentioned yet.

...When you frequent an online forum called GeekHack

QFT!!

[Melvang]

When you see an old cash register and wonder what switches are under the caps.

[SpAmRaY]

When you see an old cash register and wonder what switches are under the caps.

A true geek would just whip out there key cap keypuller and try and pop a key off

[rowdy]

When you see an old cash register and wonder what switches are under the caps.

A true geek would just whip out there key cap keypuller and try and pop a key off

And we all carry a keycap remover around with us at all times, right?

Or is it just me?

[SpAmRaY]

When you see an old cash register and wonder what switches are under the caps.

A true geek would just whip out there key cap keypuller and try and pop a key off

And we all carry a keycap remover around with us at all times, right?

Or is it just me?

I guarantee you I've always got something in my pocket that will get a keycap off of a keyboard.

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

Just came up with an awesome idea: someone make a keypuller keychain.

[SpAmRaY]

Just came up with an awesome idea: someone make a keypuller keychain.

smallfry cut down one to put on his keychain it's in the EDC thread

also there is that cherry one originative sells for $6

[Pacifist]

Just came up with an awesome idea: someone make a keypuller keychain.

http://www.originativeco.com/collections/kbd-accessories-1/products/cherry-corp-keycap-puller

[SpAmRaY]

Just came up with an awesome idea: someone make a keypuller keychain.

http://www.originativeco.com/collections/kbd-accessories-1/products/cherry-corp-keycap-puller

Those aren't too bad actually

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

Just came up with an awesome idea: someone make a keypuller keychain.

http://www.originativeco.com/collections/kbd-accessories-1/products/cherry-corp-keycap-puller

Damn, now I have the urge to buy one...

[Wildcard]

Just came up with an awesome idea: someone make a keypuller keychain.

http://www.originativeco.com/collections/kbd-accessories-1/products/cherry-corp-keycap-puller

Damn, now I have the urge to buy one...

Do it, then write a review on it and upgrade your geek level at the same time.

[SpAmRaY]

Just came up with an awesome idea: someone make a keypuller keychain.

http://www.originativeco.com/collections/kbd-accessories-1/products/cherry-corp-keycap-puller

Damn, now I have the urge to buy one...

Do it, then write a review on it and upgrade your geek level at the same time.

Maybe I should write up a review on using the different ones, they come in red, blue, black, brown normally and sometimes green and clear, maybe even white oh and also gray if you replaced the switches like me.

[Pacifist]

I own one with blues after a stock ring puller. F-ck ring pullers. They're only good for keys with stabs(which is all I use it for now)

wire pullers are so fast and so easy. Down, twist, up, pop the key out, rinse and repeat

picked blues cuz they're fun to click 

[dustinhxc]

You're at the gym lifting weights and all you can think about are what you want to do to a keyboard.

[rowdy]

You dream about keyboards or keycaps for three nights in a row.

[SpAmRaY]

You're at the gym lifting weights and all you can think about are what you want to do to a keyboard.

wait....what?

geeks lift weights?

unless you mean like you were doing finger exercises so you don't wimp out and use blues or browns or something.

You dream about keyboards or keycaps for three nights in a row.

I thought that was fairly normal.... 

[dustinhxc]

When you see an old cash register and wonder what switches are under the caps.

Haha yes! I'm in the middle of nowhere and this has station had this super old cash register and the keycaps had a tall profile I think there's something nice under them!

You dream about keyboards or keycaps for three nights in a row.

Yesss I literally dream about keyboards every night now haha it's so weird :0

You're at the gym lifting weights and all you can think about are what you want to do to a keyboard.

wait....what?

geeks lift weights?

unless you mean like you were doing finger exercises so you don't wimp out and use blues or browns or something.

You dream about keyboards or keycaps for three nights in a row.

I thought that was fairly normal.... 

Haha yeah man I've got a nice body I know others that lift too! Also there's this iOS developer of jail breaking called musclenerd haha

[rowdy]

You dream about keyboards or keycaps for three nights in a row.

I thought that was fairly normal.... 

I don't usually, but I have the last three nights.  First night I had a transparent case for my HHKB, but teeny tiny little white plastic balls kept getting into it.  Second night I dreamed that BunnyLake sent me a bunch of CandyCorn Clacks, but included CandyCorn space bars!  Man, they were fantastic!  I was only upset that I was only allowed to look at them and had to send them on to other people.  I was worrying about how I was going to package them.  Third night I can't remember now, but it wasn't as good as the other two.

I should also point out that the second dream was about Clacks, not BunnyLake.  I do not dream about BunnyLake.

[Pacifist]

I do not dream about BunnyLake.

how abnormal

[SpAmRaY]

You dream about keyboards or keycaps for three nights in a row.

I thought that was fairly normal.... 

I don't usually, but I have the last three nights.  First night I had a transparent case for my HHKB, but teeny tiny little white plastic balls kept getting into it.  Second night I dreamed that BunnyLake sent me a bunch of CandyCorn Clacks, but included CandyCorn space bars!  Man, they were fantastic!  I was only upset that I was only allowed to look at them and had to send them on to other people.  I was worrying about how I was going to package them.  Third night I can't remember now, but it wasn't as good as the other two.

I should also point out that the second dream was about Clacks, not BunnyLake.  I do not dream about BunnyLake.

so it's like after midnight here....kids asleep on the couch next to me and I just laughed out loud reading this....doh

[dustinhxc]

You dream about keyboards or keycaps for three nights in a row.

I thought that was fairly normal.... 

I don't usually, but I have the last three nights.  First night I had a transparent case for my HHKB, but teeny tiny little white plastic balls kept getting into it.  Second night I dreamed that BunnyLake sent me a bunch of CandyCorn Clacks, but included CandyCorn space bars!  Man, they were fantastic!  I was only upset that I was only allowed to look at them and had to send them on to other people.  I was worrying about how I was going to package them.  Third night I can't remember now, but it wasn't as good as the other two.

I should also point out that the second dream was about Clacks, not BunnyLake.  I do not dream about BunnyLake.

Candy corn spacebars!!!! 

Stop teasing! I must see this dream!

[tp4tissue]

......... bought a 3rd copy of Heart of the Swarm cuz it's on sale.

[iri]

You're at the gym lifting weights and all you can think about are what you want to do to a keyboard.

that's what happened to me yesterday though i was at home lifting weights.

[rowdy]

Candy corn spacebars!!!! 

Stop teasing! I must see this dream!

Yeah, I was really impressed with how straight and consistent they were across the whole length.

My biggest worry was whether I'd be able to pack them sufficiently well to send them back overseas.

I really wished I could have kept one.

And anyone who comes into the conversation with this post is going to be wondering what's going on )

[YoungMichael88]

You dream about keyboards or keycaps for three nights in a row.

**cough, cough**
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=48477

[Oobly]

You have a favourite keyboard switch...

Current fave is: Plate mounted, trampoline and latex modded, stickered and lubed 62g ErgoClears with thick POM keycaps.

[do_Og@n]

You have a favourite keyboard switch...

Current fave is: Plate mounted, trampoline and latex modded, stickered and lubed 62g ErgoClears with thick POM keycaps.

You know you are a geek when....you can understand the above statement!

Love POM keycaps myself....a softer texture. We need more of them!

[Neal]

When your family, friends and not-so-friends ask you for tech/computer related problems and advice.

[tp4tissue]

When your family, friends and not-so-friends ask you for tech/computer related problems and advice.

that just means you're surround by a bunch of freeloaders who are too lazy to google.

[Puddsy]

When your family, friends and not-so-friends ask you for tech/computer related problems and advice.

that just means you're surround by a bunch of freeloaders who are too lazy to google.

I don't let my family Google

I don't trust them.

[inteli722]

you're sitting at your desk watching DreamHack Counter-Strike 2013 while the Macy's Thanksgiving parade is on.

[YoungMichael88]

I can't even count the number of times my dad has asked me a computer related question and my answer is "just google it". His follow up question is always "what do I type?". But what's worse is my old school European grandfather who always asks me over Skype to teach him how to download torrents and having to try tell him "ignore all the naked woman advertisements on all the torrent sites"

[iri]

I can't even count the number of times my dad has asked me a computer related question and my answer is "just google it". His follow up question is always "what do I type?". But what's worse is my old school European grandfather who always asks me over Skype to teach him how to download torrents and having to try tell him "ignore all the naked woman advertisements on all the torrent sites"

can you just tell him to install adblock or something?

[iri]

You don't have a favourite keyboard switch...

ftfy

[YoungMichael88]

I can't even count the number of times my dad has asked me a computer related question and my answer is "just google it". His follow up question is always "what do I type?". But what's worse is my old school European grandfather who always asks me over Skype to teach him how to download torrents and having to try tell him "ignore all the naked woman advertisements on all the torrent sites"

can you just tell him to install adblock or something?

Took me over an hour to get him to find utorrent on a web browser. Not including installing it which I'm not even sure he was successful in doing. I told him I would just type up a guide with pictures for how to get torrents.

[YoungMichael88]

I can't even count the number of times my dad has asked me a computer related question and my answer is "just google it". His follow up question is always "what do I type?". But what's worse is my old school European grandfather who always asks me over Skype to teach him how to download torrents and having to try tell him "ignore all the naked woman advertisements on all the torrent sites"

can you just tell him to install adblock or something?

Took me over an hour to get him to find utorrent on a web browser. Not including installing it which I'm not even sure he was successful in doing. I told him I would just type up a guide with pictures for how to get torrents.

There's a major language barrier. Not only Czech/English, but computer language also. For instance, I can't even say things like "web browser" without having to explain what that is for 10 mins.

[rowdy]

You dream about keyboards or keycaps for three nights in a row.

**cough, cough**
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=48477

Yeah, yeah, I know, I kept meaning to look that thread up.  Thanks for the link

[fohat.digs]

When you have to ask somebody else to eat Slim Jims for you.

[davkol]

Nowadays, anyone with a Facebook/Twitter account is a "social media geek". The word means nothing.

[Binge]

when you go home for thanks giving and after the food is gone... the table is cleared to make room for multiple laptops, synthesizers, a few FPGA development kits, and DSLR totes nearby.