Even I
cannot top this.

I have one of their mousepads on my desk here at work, as we apparently lease machines from them, and it has all of them done up as superheroes in cartoon form on it.

I suddenly feel much less geeky.

(...sadly, I somehow wish I were drawn as a superhero too...)
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 15:33, 3 replies)

Drags on & drags on
I used to run the largest RPG publishing company in the UK.

In the 80s I broke the Guinness World Record for non-stop AD&D. Got into the book and everything.

I knew Gary Gygax. He quite liked some of my games.

Bow before your master, peons.

(I'm worried by how many people reading this will immediately say, "Oh, that's J*m*s W*ll*s, it's got to be." Yeah, it is.)
(YojimboUK, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 15:23, 4 replies)

Physics ...
I do a degree in Physics ... and sometimes I even ENJOY IT!

but then again, sometimes i prefer to just sit in my pants, watch Soccer AM and eat sausage sandwiches ....

swings and roundabouts.
(PickledEgg, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 15:14, Reply)

See that user name?
It's a pun on Argrath, the leader of the Heortling rebellion against the Lunar Empire in Dragon Pass, on the continent of Gernertela in the land of Glorantha.

Not only do I play RPG's, I've got a draft of one for playing TV doctor shows in progress.

I have, at the last count, at least 7 RPG designers on my LJ friends list, including the line developer for the new version of D&D.

I work in IT.

Please folks, don't be like my friend who runs a game shop, goes to Napoleonic re-enactments, is a morris dancer, yet mocks people who dress up as Klingons for a laugh.

I love him dearly, but he is dwelling in a glass mansion and setting up a mangonel... oh, alright, onager.
(ArghWrath, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 15:09, 2 replies)

how about
a quick "biggest home network" competition... at one home i had

full CAT5 fixed wiring into each room.
full size 42U rack in the spare room
firewall (with dmz area)
8 public IPs with public domains
webserver
email server
mysql server
remote access server
public dns server
internal file server/domain controller
game server (counter strike etc)
2 pc's
laptop
media centres in bedroom and living room
shared printer in the study
squeeze box in the kitchen (networked mp3 player)

i think thats about it... i actually almost had the capability to mirror the network at the company i worked for

what did i do with all this ?? not much really...

no...the g/f was not impressed

anyone beat that ??
(maxumus HEY!.... diddly dee, de de de de de de, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 14:57, 7 replies)

I'm so nerdy I have a simple test to find fellow nerds.
Early Christians would draw a fish in the sand to secretly confirm their faith to other Christians. To determine if you are in the company of a fellow nerd, tell this joke:

"If Book was in intelligence before he found God, does that make him a Sheppard spy?"

If the subject laughs you are safe to discuss computers and Blake's 7. If the subject furrows their brow and asks for an explanation, run to the nearest Forbidden Planet and seek sanctuary.

I have actually tested this out on a packed train to Cardiff. First, I decided to tell a universally funny "Control" joke to my travelling companion to ensure that all subjects were responsive to external stimuli; "Why are pirates called pirates?...Because they arrrghh!" This resulted in laughs/groans up and down the carriage. Then I told the "Test" joke. This caused absolutely no reaction to the subjects apart from one passenger half way up the carriage who was laughing uncontrollably. I had found my fellow nerd.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 14:48, 8 replies)

Non Nerd
As in Naked Ape stylee. I work in IT but don't really count myself a nerd (except for an unhealthy Dungeon Siege 2 fixation). However the reason I'm posting this is that I had a very narrow escape.

I was a student in Birmingham in 1977 and saw the first Star Wars film on that wraparound humongous cinema screen they had there. It was almost awe inspiring enough to make me a geeky nerd forever. Almost.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 14:43, Reply)

I once lost a girlfriend
By making her watch the 1980 Flash Gordon and telling ther that I want a wedding ceremony like Ming the Merciless, complete with vows.
(davywavy, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 14:36, 3 replies)

Star Wars Episode 7 - Man Love (3)
There was a liquid pop as Darth Invader removed a gloved finger from Streetwalker's knot. Behind that shiny black gimp mask, there was no telling what emotions he was feeling, but the lights on his chest panel were flashing "69".

"Luke - there's something I must tell you," he breathed heavily.

"You're asthmatic?" said Luke, putting back on his Jedi y-fronts."

"No. I am your father."

"But that's... incest! Gross!"

"No, Luke. Gross is what I experienced in Jabba's Sky Palace."

[Wavy lines and fade to flashback]

A heaving mound of phlegm with eyes (Jabba the Puff) is jiggling and joggling around with a drooling smile upon his face. After a few moments, his eyes roll back and the sound of a rippling wet fart echoes through the Sky Palace.

Darth Invader emerges from under the mass of green flesh and wipes his mouth with his sleeve. "NOW will you let our ships patrol your territories, Jabba?" he says.

"No. There is one more thing I need," says the Puff. And at that moment the miniature and wizened Jedi master Yoga hovers into the room wearing a latex pleasure suit and a whirring strap-on.

"Not normal this is," he says as Darth Invader manoeuvres a trolley jack under one immense green buttock.
(frankspencer, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 14:36, 3 replies)

I've got a website
documenting everything I eat during the month of March. I'm not sure if that's nerdy, weird or just sad.

Probably all three. Woohoo!
( Rainbored78 is being a bit cheeky., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 14:27, 1 reply)

Oh dear
I've just bought an r/c helicopter.



And read the manual before trying to fly it.



Twice.



And watched the instructional DVD.




Twice.




And bought spares and upgrades.


I'm 47.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 14:22, 5 replies)

Oh...
I have only just bought my first computer (I'm 26).

I don't like Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR, red Dwarf or dice and monster games and I even struggle to write the "code" needed to make things add up in excel.

I have a tan and even a few muscles, play sport and enjoy being outside.

Whilst I have absolutely nothing against nerds of any variety, the world would be truly fucked without them, I feel a little left out of this weeks QOTW.

Therefore in a controversil move I am going to defy the powers that be and say, join me non-nerds, show yourselves on the reply button with stories that don't involve BBC computers and Linux, whatever that is.

*awaits nerd backlash via internet viruses*
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 14:21, 9 replies)

I'm a geek of the highest order.
I was heavily into war hammer.

I read the dictionary for fun.

I still use my spectrum 48k.

I have everything ever released on suburban base and moving shadow.

My next to the toilet reading books are all grammars of English.

My conversation in the pub usually turns to science.

I spend a good 30 hours a week playing internet poker.

And, I'm ashamed to say, I've read all the Terry Prachett books.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 14:12, 2 replies)

Catalogues
I have Maplin Catalogues dating back to 1992, Farnell Catalogues going back to 1993, and RS Catalogues since 1996.
(Rikaitch is full of crap ideas., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 14:09, 1 reply)

not me but.....
one of my housemates owns every DVD of Stargate SG1. Not the boxed set. He bought them all individually.

Personally I would be an extreme geek if I wasn't so damn lazy.

Although I do collect retro video games (some of which I have sealed copies of.

And I breed lizards as a hobby.

And I can recite the family tree of the Noldor from memory.

I'm wearing a B3ta t-shirt right now...

I'm a geek really aren't I?

woo yay
(Reverend Samson Fapohunda B3tan, B3tan, B3tan, B3tan, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 14:06, 2 replies)

marathons
I am staying in with two of my mates and were watching the first 8 episodes of heroes series 2, back to back! oh i have also done the lord of the rings trilogy (extended versions) back to back, all 6 star wars, 1 to 6, the first two are shit!! At least once a year too i spend a day or two playing zelda on the snes from start to finish. it never gets bad!!

i need a girlfriend! dammit!
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 13:53, Reply)

Only Friday,
and there's 14 pages already on this question, you nerdy fucks you!
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 13:52, Reply)

19" racks
I've got a computer room at home.
It's got two 19" racks in it that I saved from a skip.
(toadrunner, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 13:48, 2 replies)

Nerds chat up line.
Whenever I see a lovely girl in a bar. I will go up to her with this unique chat up line:

"Hi there, I was wondering what your high score was on Bubble Bobble?"

Usually the response is a "wtf is Bubble Bobble?". But one day.. one day. I will get a response of "Oooh I loved that game!!" And that will be the girl who I will marry!!
(For real this time, not on IRC - see earlier post)
(Miggyman, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 13:48, 5 replies)

the local shopping centre was broken into recently
They made off with several sets of Babylon 5 DVDs, a signed biography of Tom Baker, and an official Stormtrooper costume.

Luckily they've caught the thieves, and charged them with aggravated nurdlary.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 13:45, 3 replies)

Component Drawers
You know, like they have in Maplins (if u haven't owned a catalogue from here then you don't deserve to even POST in this QOTW!), the little component drawers, small metal cabinets with 48 plastic drawers to keep er.. components in.. u know them? well, i've got 4 sets in the garage for keeping my screws/bolts/raw plugs stored. They're fucking BRILLIANT!

... and i was 30 seconds from called my son LUKE till the missus twigged on...
(TheManofScience, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 13:33, 2 replies)

I don't think anyones done this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Zc9NyYH-k


Edit: Not realising the page stretch, just leaving the link....
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 13:32, 2 replies)

Time To Grow Up And Get Married
I could bore you all with thrilling tails of BBC Micro programming, mobile phone USSD commands, obscure Mornington Crescent rules - but I won't. I'll tell you a tale of a small, frightened little nerd...

I was about 3 years old and had been asked to be a page boy at my cousins wedding.
I was under strict instruction that my job was to protect the bride! Under no circumstances was she to come to any harm.

Now we all know that 3 year old boys are prone to wander off, to giggle, to start crying for no particular attention. That's just what kids do.

Not me. I stood straight, I didn't make a peep, I discharged my duty admirably. I protected that bride with all my might.

My parents, quite surprised, asked why I had behaved so well.

I pointed at the vicar - he was dressed in black. Head to toe. I pointed and said...

"DARTH VADER!"

Something in my tiny, fragile mind convinced me that this bride - in white - was Princess Leia and this old guy - in black - was the Dark Lord of the Sith himself. I, as a wannabe Jedi, summoned all the powers of The Force to protect her.

Skip forward some 25 years....

~~~~~~~~ <- Wavey Dream Lines to indicate passage of time....

Despite being a grade A nerd. I found a woman who loved me. She loved me no matter how many times I tried to switch her PC to Linux. She loved me even when I bought a TARDIS to hold our DVDs. She loved me when I bought old computers home from work so I could play with them.

I asked her to marry me! She said yes!

She even loved me when I suggested a Sci-Fi themed wedding....

I conquered the fear I felt as a three-year-old.

I got married dressed as Darth Vader.



From L-R
My Mother - Doctor Who
My Father-in-law - Obi Wan (he already had the beard)
My Wife - Jedi
Me - Darth Vader
My Mother-in-law - Professor McGonnagle
My Father - Ming the Merciless
My Brother - Londo Mollari.

Nerdiness runs in my blood. I have it, my parents have it.... My wife has it.

MTFBWY, SMAKIBBFB.

(If you're desperate for more - read the article and watch the video or see me misquoted in The Mirror and ridiculed in Romanian.)
(terryeden, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 13:31, 22 replies)

GQ
I've been trying to come up with a formula for calculating one's Geek Quotient - or "GQ". It's proving difficult though. It all started when someone made the observation that you were officially a geek if your IQ was greater than your weight in pounds. I think that this is unfair as it gives a female advantage, women generally weighing less than men. So I need to come up with a formula that takes gender into account, as well as taking into account other important factors such as the frizziness of one's hair (difficult to quantify), the strength of one's asthma medication (2000mg a day baby!), severity of myopia, and the length of time spent on the internet in any given 24-hour period.

And by the way, this project started waaaaaaay before this QOTW.
(grandmasterfluffles Come to my Armageddon party on, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 13:29, 3 replies)

every other saturday
Me, my wife, my sister and a select group of friends get together for "Lost Night". We watch 2 episodes every other week because if one episode is disappointing, the other can make up for it. We made a cake with the Dharma Initiative logo on it. My sister made pink fish biscuits. And cans of beer with Dharma logos on.
( BlueHaze Chutney. All good., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 13:25, 1 reply)