Is it super dorky to wear a zip drive on a lanyard around your neck?

[Bouncy Ball]

I am in school again, after a long absence (I'm in grad school). I'm the oldest person in my class by a number of years (and I'm only in my mid-30s!). Many of the other students graduated and went immediately on to their masters.

The professor talked to us on the first day about saving our files and if we had a zip drive or a zebra drive, I forget what he called it. So when we met in groups later, I said I needed to get a disk or something and they kinda chuckled and busted out these little thingies on their keychains and said "just get this!"

So my husband the computer geek bought me one and it has a LANYARD fo wearing around your neck.

Now I'm not the pinnacle of cool, nor do I strive to be. But I laughed, thinking it the ultimate in dorkdom to wear a hard drive around your NECK.

Does anyone else here do that? Think I'll just put it on my keychain. Then figure out how it works.

[maveric]

1. YES! Please DONT ever do that!

Thank you.

[burythehatchet]

2. I don't know about wearing it around the neck

but the USB flash drives are a great tool, especially for school.

[Bouncy Ball]

4. I know, who's gonna bust this out from underneath their

jacket and say "What? You say you need a zip drive right now? I happen to have one right here around my neck!!!!! I can HELP!"

Ok I'm being silly. I just laughed so hard when he handed it to me on a lanyard that has "Memorex" printed on it.

[JohnKleeb]

3. Hey! you reminded me of what I need for model congress

"lanard"

[cags]

5. Hahaha. I was picturing you actually wearing a zip drive

on a lanyard.

What you have is a usb key drive, which is much much smaller than a zip drive.

I used to wear mine sometimes but usually just kept it in my bag. There was this really dorky guy I in my classes who constantly wore his though.

[okieinpain]

6. I wear mine, with my badge.

[Bouncy Ball]

7. USB key drive, thank you.

I was wondering, because I did know a Zip drive was actually quite a bit bigger than what I have.

Why did one girl call hers a zebra drive? Or did I mishear her?

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

9. ZiO

It's a ZiO drive.

[Bouncy Ball]

11. I'm so hopelessly not with it. Thank you.

They asked me if I could do the graph for our project in Excel and I nearly broke out in hives. I offered to type up the report instead. I can't do Excel.

[McKenzie]

8. hmmm...I carry a 512 M/byte usb flash pen

and I freely admit to being a geek. But, geeks are anti-cool anyway.

Just as well in my case because the last thing I'd want to be called is "hip" "cool" (sic)

[Bouncy Ball]

10. Me, too.

I don't care much for coolness. Now that I think about it, maybe it's just the idea of having 256MB around my neck that freaked me out (mine is tinier than yours!).

[McKenzie]

16. LOL...anyone who needs more than 256 M/bytes

is really sad anyway... Actually, I use mine to transport big graphics files and pics around.

regards

[ashmanonar]

13. my cousin has a watch that has a 512 mb flash drive in it...

is that geeky? :D

[McKenzie]

15. wow! I'm suffering geek envy...

that sounds waaay geeky. Nice thing to have...sounds "James Bond'ish"

cheers

[LiberalFighter]

19. Only if others knows he has one.

Would think that others wouldn't know since it is part of his watch.

[ashmanonar]

28. well, this is the same cousin

that is running a server out of his room in his parent's house...

noone doubts that he has geek toys. lol

[Hand]

29. Yes, but...

Not as geeky as the Swiss Army knife with a 128 MB flash drive blade!

I'm NOT kidding. They've gone too far!!!
:nuke:

[ulysses]

12. I wear mine around my neck

along with my classroom keys and my id badge. Pants pockets, these days, are for truck keys, cell phone, "token economy" tickets, pens, dry erase markers, math manipulatives, paper clips, rubber bands and sundry contraband taken away from students.

I'm an edugeek!

[bowens43]

14. Actually, I think you are referring to 'flash drives'

I carry one in my pocket and one on my key chain. I tend to think of myself as a data transport system.

;-)

[McKenzie]

17. correct! Mine is called a "pen" because it has a pen clip

for securing it in a shirt, or jacket, pocket.

[DS1]

18. My professor actually pointed out another professor that did the same

thing with key-drives.

IMO, deservedly so, what a fucking tool.

Give the lanyard back to your husband so he can put the front door key on it :D

[Bouncy Ball]

23. I think he knew I didn't know much about technology

and thought I really would wear it around my neck so he could laugh at me.

LOL

[Zomby Woof]

20. It certainly is!

But also kind of a turn-on too!

[Bouncy Ball]

24. Hmmm.... rowr baby.

Maybe I'll take some digital pics of me with my lanyard drive thingie on. I even wear it to bed......

[ken-in-seattle]

21. Probably not as geeky as some...

I welded a handle on my 40 lbs tower and hauled it to work every day in 1997.

And my Pied Piper CPM computer had a handle and two hard sectored 90 tpi 5 1/4 drives in 1988 Could have looked smooth but the lines were spoiled by the 20 lbs of green screen terminal monitor I had to carry under the other arm...

[Bouncy Ball]

25. Oh my GOD you are like the KING of all Dorks.

May they bow down to you.

Whew. And I thought it was dorky that my boss actually took his telescope with him to shop for cars to make sure it fit in the trunk!

[Orsino]

22. Yes, it's super-dorky.

Don't try it unless you are ready to feel full-on Geek Pride.

If you're worried about how you'd look, you're not ready for it!

[AngryAmish]

26. It pegs the "dork-o-meter"

Only thing dorkier is if the lanyard said "Star Trek" which would create a black hole of dorkiness, thereby destroying the earth.

[Bouncy Ball]

27. Come on. Read the post from the guy a couple above this

who welded a HANDLE onto his tower to take it back and forth from work to home in 1997. NOTHING can freaking top that, can it?