Turns out I'm a nerd.
7My wife just came downstairs while I was at my desk and asks, do you have a compass? Like North, East, South, West compass? I picked up the one in front of me and handed it to her. I asked, ‘Is that what you need?’ I got the biggest WTF? stare ever 
Yeah, I’m that nerd. Funny thing is I could have handed her two 
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Ummmmm, a compass is a perfectly reasonable piece of equipment to own!!!
I have one that hangs from the rear view mirror of my car.
It could be worse. It could have been this:
/image 2007 Jeep Compass
BTW, its CVT is most likely dead.
@narfcake That would mean @capnjb has a very large desk.
There is a glitch in the matrix
@capnjb
/showme these are not the droids you are looking for
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@capnjb
/showme these are not the droids you are looking for
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Once more for good measure…
/showme these are not the droids you are looking for
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I’d say it are broked again. @dave, here’s a heads-up.
@werehatrack Maybe it just hates Star Wars?
https://meh.com/forum/topics/tv-lamps-shoddy-goods-062#68ca25a8a9093e6a6594d2b2
/showme Obi Wan Kenobi in a landspeeder telling stormtroopers these are not the droids you’re looking for.
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@mediocrebot we really do need to fix you. You are not the droid we are looking for.
@dave It appears to object to the word “droids”. I would bet that it’s not in the dictionary, or might be flagged as a trademark because of Motorola’s old phone.
@dave @werehatrack well that’s a bit o bollocks now innit!?!
/showme Obi Wan Kenobi in a landspeeder telling stormtroopers these are not the androids you’re looking
I will laugh my arse off if the androids are phones
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/showme something that went terribly wrong
OK… now let’s ease mediocrebot into it…
/showme something that went terribly wrong with an android
Now…
/showme something that went terribly wrong with a droid
@dave so which one worked? Mine or yours?
@sillyheathen
But it may be the droid we need.
/showme the droid we need, not the droid we are looking for.
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Hmmm… maybe it doesn’t like a definite article before a certain word…
/showme a droid we need, not a droid we are looking for
@mediocrebot WTH? Definite vs. indefinite article? Seriously? Are you messing with me, @dave? Enough of this madness! I’m off to bed.
/showme these are not droids that you are looking for
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Harrumph.
@ItalianScallion I decided yours did based on the visual. Maybe it’s plural “droids”?
To be fair, I have a box of them. Preferential to Suunto myself. I teach land nav for search and rescue, though. I also have a couple of protractor compasses, too.
This is also a compass, if you get my point.
/image drafting compass
A couple of these in my desk.
@phendrick
OP was pretty clear about what kind of compass he was referring to…
A compass is normal. A drafting compass is rarer, but still kinda mainstream. Having about 20 books about various mythologies would qualify you as a nerd… dammit.
@Wollyhop
back in the day, we used something basically the same to interpret a heart rhythm strip
@Cerridwyn @Wollyhop
calipers
@chienfou @Wollyhop yep then their things
@Cerridwyn That sounded so redneck my skin started to blister and burn off.
How about having a plethora of calipers? Does that qualify for nerd status?
@sillyheathen Just typing “a plethora of calipers” cinched your qualification.
@macromeh @sillyheathen I don’t have a caliper, but I do have a c-clamp.
@blaineg @macromeh you can never have too many clamps! I have an eclectic array of them. Pipe clamps, quick clamps, c clamps, box/corner clamps, edge clamps, strap clamps. The one I have used most recently that I adore from a framing perspective, is my telescoping “drywall” clamp. That in combination with my drywall lift has enabled me to do some of the cladding of the shop ceiling on my tod.
@blaineg @macromeh
@macromeh @sillyheathen
@blaineg–What kind of C clamp is that?
@blaineg @Kyeh @macromeh @sillyheathen It is a micrometer. It is used for precision measuring.
@blaineg @macromeh @sillyheathen @yakkoTDI
Ohhhhhh. Thanks.
@blaineg @macromeh @sillyheathen According to my brother in law you can never have too many screw drivers (and this would be tools
). My sister says you can never have too many flashlights. There are some on meh who likely would say you can never have too many cats.
@blaineg @Kidsandliz @macromeh @sillyheathen or shoes…
@blaineg @Kidsandliz @sillyheathen @tinamarie1974 I think my wife would say fabic, judging from her sewing room.
@Kyeh @macromeh @sillyheathen @yakkoTDI Another “c-clamp”.
@blaineg @macromeh @sillyheathen @yakkoTDI
Well, golly. TIL.
Why is that mounted there?
@blaineg @Kyeh @macromeh @yakkoTDI all the clamps!!!
what happens when she realize that you are not only a Nerd, But a Geeky Nerdy dude she married!
She’s lucky.