I was labelled a nerd....:(
Friends from the company came over to my place for dinner and (board) games last night. We played 'Taboo' and 'Cranium'.
Taboo:
When it was my turn, one of the words I picked was 'saddle'. I couldn't say 'horse' or 'riding', and so I tried to lead my group by saying..."When you have y = x^3, what is the point at (0,0) called? Or the valley between two peaks in a 3D plot?"
They looked at me blankly. Then the time was up.
"It's a saddle point!"
"OMG, you are such a nerd!"
This came from a group of fellow engineers. Everyone started laughing.
Cranium:
My group rolled 'red', aka 'data head/fun facts'. The question was "So what two countries fought the War of 1812?"
Me: "US and UK."
"Do you memorize history books or something?"
Another question: "Which country is Timbuktu located in?"
Me: "Mali"
"Do you memorize the World Map?"
I suck big time for "Star Performer" though. I can't act, and I can't sing.
tk:
So what did you think of my responses to the games? Good right? I wonder why the others looked at me like I was nuts
S says:
yah..it's good..but usually people don't think like that.
S says:
hehe..I know! Go read this book "the know-it-all"
tk says:
and what about it?
S says:
the author attempted to read the entire encyclopedia britannica
tk says:
lol
S says:
yah. Then you'll know why explaining facts like this is unorthodox
tk says:
tsk...!
4 comments:
Hahahaha... that reminds me of playing Pictionary back in my undergrad days, with a group that has a significant number of math majors (the rest were experimental scientists). One of the words was 'neighborhood'. ALL the people who were doing the drawing at that time drew the x-y axes, colored a dot on the cartesian plane, and dotted a circle around that point. Only thing was that my pair was the only pair made up of entirely math majors, and that was the tiebreaker...
Haha what a nerd. The trick about games like Pictionary and Taboo is to communicate on the same frequency as your team mates, know what they understand.
haha, go read know it all. it's a hilarious book!
do i need to be a nerd to get into a good grad program?
teach me some of ur skills, takchek!
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