Nerd Sniping

1. The act of presenting someone, often a mathematician/physicist with a time consuming problem or challenge (often impossible to solve or complete) in the hopes of it appealing to a person's obsessive tendencies.

2. Doing the thing above in a situation where the obsession may lead to bodily harm (in the original context on the middle of a road where they will get inevitably run-over by a truck).

1. The XKCD comic "Click and Drag" nerd sniped me! I never expected it to take so long to explore.

2. There's a certain type of brain that is easily disabled. If you show it an interesting problem it involuntarily drops everything else. This lead me to the development of a new sport: Nerd Sniping.

Nerd Sniping by willisbell September 23, 2012

Nerd Sniping

The act of presenting an interesting problem to a certain type of nerd, usually a physicist or a mathematician, while he/she is crossing the road, in such a manner that he/she becomes so occupied with it that he/she is soon run over.

First defined on xkcd.

"There's a certain type of brain that's easily disabled. If you show it an interesting problem, it involuntary drops everything else to work on it. This has led to me to evolve a new sport: Nerd Sniping."

Nerd Sniping by Volland January 7, 2009

Nerd Sniping

Nerd Sniping: The act of engaging a nerd in one of their areas of interest; that they become so occupied they are unaware of anything else

Nerd Sniped: The state of a nerd so deeply engaged in one of their areas of interest they are unaware of anything else.

I am Nerd Sniped! I like Nerd Sniping Sci-Fi Nerds.

Nerd Sniping by CodeThumper April 11, 2016

nerd sniping

A sport based on the use of difficult problems to stump and/or stop nerds in their tracks.

I put problems from the GLAT on poster board to have some fun nerd sniping. Man, is it easy!

nerd sniping by IMReader January 7, 2008