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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Also, when I'm not just dicking about on the internet I:work on my computer science degree (a bit)
read wikipedia, new scientist or national geographic
watch tron and get annoyed because THAT'S NOT HOW COMPUTERS WORK!
play on either my atari 2600, snes, megadrive, n64, gamecube, xbox or wii (notice how i've actually bothered to put them into chronological order based on generation) I also know various little facts about them, such as the 2600 didn't have a video buffer, and it had 2 sound channels, one of which would only produce white noise.
I've known how to fix computers since ever, i used to know the archimedies like the back of my hand too. I don't like apple macs, but I want a spare pc just so I can put osx on it to say that i did it.
I have a modded ds with zx spectrum emulator amongst other things
When I was about 12 I took a city and guilds test to gain a licence to operate ameteur radio (ham if you're a yank) my callsign was 2e1gya until i took the 'full' test and aquired g8geb.
Actually I don't consider myself a nerd, nerds do things just to prove they can, i assume i can and don't bother. I have the virtue of being lazy.
Oh yeah, and I'm currently badgering my dad to steal me the neccesary components from his work so I can build me a theremin.
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Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 12:39,
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I want a thereminTheremins are awesome.
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