How nerdy are you?This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.
So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?
As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.
Revel in your own nerdiness.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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Despite having recently had lots ofeye-wateringly filthy sex with my wonderful girlfriend, and shedloads of other good stuff going on in my life right now, my happiest moment over the last few weeks was when my laptop (streaming music via Bluetooth to my stereo headphones) paused the music automatically as my mobile (using Bluetooth) relayed the call to my headphones (Plantronic P590s), and then resumed the music automatically once the phone call was complete.
I was in Geek HEAVEN when that happened.
However, my latest purchase (Harmony One Remote Control) is pants (it's very s..l...o....w....).
Most weeks, my recycling bin is fuller than my "normal" bin. That's because of all the cardboard from geek purchases and empty cans of Red Bull takes up more space than all the lack of normal life stuff in the black bin.
That's a geek - but what a life - the thing that was a hobby in my teenage years has been a lucrative and enjoyable career, and not a particularly arduous one either. Truly, the geek *has* inherited the earth.
*EDIT. I'm 40 - so a real long-time geek, although I'm sure others on here can beat me.
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I_Was_Mordred, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 12:21,
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Eye wateringly filthy sex?does that mean you cried?
yeah...might make you a bit of a nerd
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flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 3:59,
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