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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It seems I'm a different sort of nerd.To be honest I blow at computers and consoles so I've never really been interested in them.
Turntables are a different story though. I might not be able to survive more than a minute in any MMORPG (save perhaps Hello Kitty Island Adventure) but when its time to start sorting the cartridge loading for Shelter 501, I'm there switching the phono stage to 47k ohms. A weekend spent dismantling a Linn LP12 and putting it together again so it bounces perfectly is a weekend well spent. Turntable components litter my listening room (I've been good recently and whittled down to three tonearms, four cartridges, two phono stages and a record cleaning machine) whilst I own certain albums a few times over as different pressings have different strengths and weaknesses.
When it comes to my iPod, I will rip Vinyl to a heavy duty CD recorder with hard drive, track mark it and then run it through a LAME MP3 encoder, only then adding to iTunes. Blind test me on my custom MP3's versus the same size file carelessly ripped off a CD, I'll get it right each time.
IT based nerdism is a healthy group activity by comparison.
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Well done.I think what you do is good. hooray for good quality music!
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?what do you mean by 'heavy duty cd recorder'?
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I'm prepared to betthat you would never listen to DAB radio.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 9:05,
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Its no lookerBut I use one of these for recording work; www.tascam.com/details;8,11,42.html. Its useful because it allows editing on the hard drive before going elsewhere. In extremis it can deal with any pitch issues or damaged area. I've tinkered with turning vinyl into DSD recordings but its a faff and I'm not really convinced the benefits are worth it.
Ironically my employer has done fairly well out of DAB radios but, I look at it as a wasted opportunity and do indeed still listen to FM. I'm not some pointless anacrophile though. The public has taken to the choice and flexibility of solid state music and in time, the potential for really high bandwidth recordings over download is something I look forward to.
EDIT- fucksocks, the link is dicky- but I refer to the DVRA1000HD.
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