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                WAYS TO PICK OUT A SCIENCE GEEK
                          Version 2.1
     
1) they stand in the rain watching it drip in front of lights and say,
        "Oh, wow, look at the acceleration."
     
2) they get scared walking into the theatre library.
     
3) they say, "Oh, good, we don't have any plans Friday.  we can work on
        astronomy all day."
     
4) they have pizza delivered to the science building (Make that 'signs
        building'  not everyone is a science geek.)
     
5) their idea of rebellion is to draw astronomical symbols upside down
        on the blackboard.
     
6) they refer to printed documents (i.e. papers) as 'hardcopies'.
     
7) they find enlightenment and artistic inspiration in technical documents.
        for example, "blocked by baffles"
     
8) they wear resistors as earrings and got really excited when they saw some
        electrical switches at the store today - they were just the right size!

(For non-science people a resistor is a small cylindrical electronic device.)
     
9) they are absolutely baffled when trying to measure a drafted line in ,
        what... inches?!?
     
10) they type out their dream dialogues as they sleep.
     
(Ok, maybe this is just weird behavior.)
     
11) they sit centimeters (not inches) apart at a desk with two computers and
        talk to each other electronically rather than turn sideways.
     
12) they sit at the console and type dumb lists about geeks just so that our
        fingers can be happy typing.
     
13) they refer to our friends as 'sosmer', 'agonnella', 'candrulis', and
        'FAX0112' rather than sam, anne, cathy and bob.
     
14) they talk about velocity, not speed.
     
15) they see a slinky and think of simple harmonic motion.
     
16) they use insults like:
        -you are three sigma from the mean.
        -you symbolic stack dump
        -go suck a photon
     
17) they can integrate complex functions, but use a calculator for simple
        math.
     
18) they say that they will be there at '3 pm +/- 15 minutes'.
     
19) they realize that if you drive fast enough toward a red light it will
        actually be green.
     
20) they think of writing letters by hand as 'the analog method'.
     
21) they know that joules are units of energy, not precious gems.
     
     
is that enough?  they can come up with more, i'm 96.2% +/- 2.4% certain.
     

     - Anne Gonnella
     - Cathy Andrulis
     - Bob Dempsey