Are most of programmers overweighted ?
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Just heard that phrase from a friend today. In my case this is not true because most of the programmers/sys. analysts I know are normal weighted (like me) or slim. How about you guys ? Do you know more overweighted or slim programmers ? Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank :jig: I've gone sending to outer space, to find another race :jig:
Mauricio Ritter wrote: How about you guys ? Do you know more overweighted or slim programmers ? I am very glad that the stereotypical image of a programmer is being slowly expunged from everyday life. Now that it seems like us IT guys are raking in the bucks, we are not so nerdy and ugly after all. I remember the days when if you were a programmer you were either a fat pimply nerd or a scrawny pimply nerd. I was a scrawny pimply nerd when it was time to pick the Rugby squad, and a fat pimply nerd when it came to girls, go figure. Never normal, always to the extreme. Most of the programmers I know are normal guys/gals, from thin "pizza is not a good diet" pimply guys through to fat "pizza is not a good diet" pimply guys, and everywhere inbetween. Just like any other profession (I know a fat dietician, does not do all that well, but he still has clients if you can believe.) I wonder what the next profession to be targeted as nerdy will be. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge Tim Smith wrote: Over here in the third world of humor (a.k.a. BBC America), peterchen wrote: We should petition microsoft to a "target=_Paul" attribute.
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Just heard that phrase from a friend today. In my case this is not true because most of the programmers/sys. analysts I know are normal weighted (like me) or slim. How about you guys ? Do you know more overweighted or slim programmers ? Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank :jig: I've gone sending to outer space, to find another race :jig:
I could definitely afford to lose weight. I don't overeat or drink beer, but working at the PC 16 hours a day doesn't leave much time for exercise. Not healthy, for sure. :( /ravi Let's try putting "civil" back into "civilization" http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com
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Just heard that phrase from a friend today. In my case this is not true because most of the programmers/sys. analysts I know are normal weighted (like me) or slim. How about you guys ? Do you know more overweighted or slim programmers ? Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank :jig: I've gone sending to outer space, to find another race :jig:
I could certainly afford to lost 1 or 2 (er. 10 or 20 ...er... 30 or 40) pounds. I'd say that its 50/50. Many of the programmers I have met are overweight, but many are not.
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Just heard that phrase from a friend today. In my case this is not true because most of the programmers/sys. analysts I know are normal weighted (like me) or slim. How about you guys ? Do you know more overweighted or slim programmers ? Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank :jig: I've gone sending to outer space, to find another race :jig:
My doctor tells me I need to put on weight, as 130lbs is too light for my age/height. I think I look pretty normal. And I know more slim programmers than fat ones, if you're talking about young people (-25). Simon I need your clothes, your boots, and your copy of VS.NET. Sonork ID 100.10024 WHAT, YOU WENT TO THAT MUCH TROUBLE TRYING TO READ THIS? MY GOD, YOU MUST BE EVEN MORE BORED THAN I WAS CREATING IT! I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY HERE. DID YOU PASTE THIS INTO NOTEPAD OR DO YOU HAVE A VERY LOW RES/BIG MONITOR? I'M INTERESTED.
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Just heard that phrase from a friend today. In my case this is not true because most of the programmers/sys. analysts I know are normal weighted (like me) or slim. How about you guys ? Do you know more overweighted or slim programmers ? Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank :jig: I've gone sending to outer space, to find another race :jig:
Well I could do with losing some weight, sitting at a desk all day doesn't do much for ones body. I've never worked with any really 'large' programmers and most of the programmers at the conferences I've attended have been pretty normal sized too. It is the old sterotype of a overweight guy with a pony tail and beard, wearing a bermuda shirt and shorts. However PASCAL programmers died out a long time ago :-D Michael :-)
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I could definitely afford to lose weight. I don't overeat or drink beer, but working at the PC 16 hours a day doesn't leave much time for exercise. Not healthy, for sure. :( /ravi Let's try putting "civil" back into "civilization" http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com
Ravi Bhavnani wrote: but working at the PC 16 hours a day doesn't leave much time for exercise. Not healthy, for sure Even if there were forty hours in a day, sitting at the PC for sixteen of them surely can't be good for one's soul :). -- Andrew.
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Just heard that phrase from a friend today. In my case this is not true because most of the programmers/sys. analysts I know are normal weighted (like me) or slim. How about you guys ? Do you know more overweighted or slim programmers ? Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank :jig: I've gone sending to outer space, to find another race :jig:
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: but working at the PC 16 hours a day doesn't leave much time for exercise. Not healthy, for sure Even if there were forty hours in a day, sitting at the PC for sixteen of them surely can't be good for one's soul :). -- Andrew.
Andrew Peace wrote: can't be good for one's soul. Aye! /ravi Let's try putting "civil" back into "civilization" http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com
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Just heard that phrase from a friend today. In my case this is not true because most of the programmers/sys. analysts I know are normal weighted (like me) or slim. How about you guys ? Do you know more overweighted or slim programmers ? Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank :jig: I've gone sending to outer space, to find another race :jig:
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Well I could do with losing some weight, sitting at a desk all day doesn't do much for ones body. I've never worked with any really 'large' programmers and most of the programmers at the conferences I've attended have been pretty normal sized too. It is the old sterotype of a overweight guy with a pony tail and beard, wearing a bermuda shirt and shorts. However PASCAL programmers died out a long time ago :-D Michael :-)
Michael P Butler wrote: However PASCAL programmers died out a long time ago Hey! :mad: I still have my Turbo Pascal 7 copy (I started with 2, for CP/M), I just don't have a floppy drive wide enough to load it anymore. "What is it?" and he said, "I don't know. Let's kill it." - Ed Gadziemski