Reply To: JoCo Cruise Crazy 3: Get excited and talk about things!
@mrgoldenbrown I assume he’s referring (at least somewhat tongue-in-cheekly) to Rees’s leading of the Wifi Temperance Brigade on each cruise.
That said, I *would* concur that the Internet is not required for nerd status. I know several musicians who avoid all things Internet, who are bigger amp/guitar nerds than most “regular nerds” I know are about most “regular nerd” things.
But I suppose that the whole point of the mini-discussion here is that different people have different requirements for their own definitions of the term. Roderick tweeted after last year’s SDCC that the term “nerd” is really almost meaningless anymore; and he kinda has a point. It’s one of the numerous reasons we don’t market the cruise as “Nerds on a Boat”.
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