Comments on: Nerd Merit Badges

By: Be proud of your inner nerd. | Cody's Site O' Stuff

Be proud of your inner nerd. | Cody's Site O' Stuff — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:04:42 +0000

[...] on! I can see my local nerd herd having patch battles at the tables in the school cafeteria. globalnerdy.com has posted a fine idea of nerdom, and they are selling these for only $4.plus some shipping.Perhaps [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:40:07 +0000

Hi, FYI the sash you show at grahamsquires@bigpond.com.au is not a Boy Scout sash, it is a Girl Scout sash.

By: New Nerd Merit Badge: Homonyms — Global Nerdy

New Nerd Merit Badge: Homonyms — Global Nerdy — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:39:49 +0000

[...] Open Source Nerd Merit Badge [...]

By: New Nerd Merit Badge: Inbox Zero — Global Nerdy

New Nerd Merit Badge: Inbox Zero — Global Nerdy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:09:05 +0000

[...] I covered the first Nerd Merit Badge – Open Source Contributor, which features “Octocat”, the mascot for the Git distributed version control system, back in January. [...]

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:09:04 +0000

You may want to check out the ORDER OF THE SCIENCE SCOUTS OF EXEMPLARY REPUTE AND ABOVE AVERAGE PHYSIQUE.

http://www.scq.ubc.ca/order-of-the-science-scouts-of-exemplary-repute-and-above-average-physique/

Cheers.

By: Cody

Cody — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:52:41 +0000

Oh yea… It’s on! I can see my local nerd herd having patch battles at the tables in the school cafeteria. Perhaps a hierarchy of value to assist what badges can trump and what badges are just fluff… Will there be the hard to find Verduran Enchantress – Alpha badge that only true nerds can attain… We need rules!!! Or… Badges.. we don’t need no stinking badges!!

By: John Young

John Young — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:38:19 +0000

Joey, you assume correctly, you’re on your honor to wear only the badges that you feel you’ve earned. Now, nobody’s going to challenge you for wearing an “open source contributor” badge. You committed a million lines of code to the Linux kernel? Great! You gave ten bucks to the Drupal Foundation? Also great; the OSS community welcomes people at every level of participation.

Now, when it comes to other badges — let’s say, the “Regular Expressions” badge, you’d better be ready to back up your badge with some skills. We’re thinking about maybe having the badge equivalent of racing for pinks slips. Or a “wizard’s battle” if you want to be INCREDIBLY nerdy about it. You know, both contestants sit down with a copy of the phone book and a handful of slashes and tildes, and the first one to transform it into the first chapter of “The Hobbit” gets to keep both badges.

Like I said, we’re still working on that bit :)