I was staying at a friend's house
and she had several songs by Weird Al Yankovic downloaded.

I got very annoyed that some of them seemed to be mis-categorised as being by Weird Al when they weren't.

So I got on Wikipedia and, using the article "list of Weird Al Yankovic songs", seperated them into the existing folder, and a new folder I created labelled 'other parodies'.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 5:41, Reply)

I work on dinosaurs.
I am not sure it gets too much more geeky / childhood fantasy than that. Oddly enough, I was always more interested in living things, but ended up in palaeontology.

Still, dinosaurs rule!
(Bob the Scutter, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 5:25, Reply)

there are 10 types of people in the world,
those who understand binary, and those who don't.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 5:21, 5 replies)

I bought a Dungeons and Dragons starter kit in 2005.
I tried to play with some of my mates, but none of us knew what we were doing, got bored, and it's never seen the light of day again.
Maybe one day I'll find someone kind enough to teach me.

misanthrope: Completely agree with you there. I can probably relate to 70% of the nerdy tales on here, although I never really got into trading cards or animé or any of that overhyped stuff.
( Grokthought wouldn't pay that for Chinese 5-Spice, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 4:09, Reply)

I own a NES control pad satchel

( Captain Tripps is your taxloss lover from Liverpool, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 3:44, Reply)

nerd when young, geek in waiting, but women got in the way
i was a proper nerd when younger in the late 80's, i started at the ZX Spectrum, and used to own the whole back catalogue of 'your sinclair' and other fewer ones who's names pass me by, copied the code they published, forgot to save it to tape, left the speccy on all night, replaced it again after it overheated, things were looking up, i was learning basic, but paperboy, emlyn hughes football, and many others kept distracting me

got Amiga's (started to go more gamer) but used dabble a lot with samplers, composed a Red Dwarf clone in Octamed and Tracker, modelled some basic shapes to music using the free modelling apps from Amiga Format, and started to produce PD (Public Domain if you're too young, the snail mail precursor to P2P, but usually community produced show reel stuff) quality stuff, while trading some awesome PD videos and animations from germany and sweden and so on

problem is it went south on nerds town, i got a Playstation, found underage boozing, school discos, mates clubbing together for cheap dutch miniture multipack beers (you know those little green mini bottle), anything alcoholic, ciggies, college, beer, girls, work, in that order with the odd PS2 dalliance

This lasted for about 7 years, forgot everything, then, when down in a factory dump going no where, started reading something about TCP/IP, now 8 years after that date, Install and poke Cisco and MS Exchange kit for various ISPs, emea and others etc after a stint as a shirt and tie db consul'devilschild'tant, i preferred branded polo shirt WAN techie type stuff, not boring as buggery data design, db install, sql, crm, stuff, and am usually now traipsing through terminals, bombing around in the van getting paid well for something i know an army of geeks online can do, as their exploit blogs and so on testify too, and who absolutley wipe the floor with me on CoD4 on PS3 as i play it for about 3 hours aweek when the missus is at work on a saturday

but ive learned the social skills to walk into a multinational, tell the CIO or Director, CEO etc what they need, where they've ballsed up

i think that curious streak broke through again after a teenage break from the norm...nerd, this time i find routing tables more interesting than customers/strangers/public, and would rather be with our mixed group hiring a villa or whatever, but know what pays the bills

Cheers



Mmm...

100 REM type your name
110 INPUT n$
120 PRINT "Hello ";n$;"!"
130 GO TO 110

Or

Dim Response
Response = InputBox("Enter Name:", "arse")
MsgBox "Greetings " & Response & "!"
(1_not_so_careful_owner, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 2:43, Reply)

Well
I still have a copy of OS/2
(bluetuba has a special friend in Blue Label Smirnoff, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 2:35, 3 replies)

Well,
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01101110 01101111 01110100

01100001 01110011

01101110 01100101 01110010 01100100 01111001

01100001 01110011

01111001 01101111 01110101
(FurtiveBiscuit, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 2:12, 6 replies)

I know I was nerdy as a kid;
I used POKE tapes on me Spectrum and thought I was the fucking don.
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:58, Reply)

OK, I knew I was nerdy when...
Despite spending many an hour playing and endless plethora of computer games, and managing to find my way through vast worlds with relative ease, I find my sense of general direction in the real world is some what lacking. As a result, I decided that rather than wandering around lost for hours on end, I would purchase a SatNav.

And so when the opportunity came later that day to drive to an address in Manchester I eagerly offered to drive, and test my new fangled gadget. I set it up, entered the address and we were on our way. And all went really well all the way there. That is until we got to the end of the journey.

"You have reached your destination" harped Kathy from within the realms of TomTom world. "But where?...I can't see it anywhere" I thought. What was I looking for you ask? A big blue light shining down from the heavens! Thats right, I had as anyone would, mistaken the real world for that of GTA.
( Furness, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:56, Reply)

I'm more geeky than nerdy I'd say...
But then I see a major difference between nerd and geek. Guess that counts!

But anyway:
I'm a member of an online Blood Bowl game, which is a java version of a games workshop game...
I did used to paint the miniatures when I was younger, but not for many a year now.

I regularly stay up online till 4am programming.
I made a Clippy generator because I was too lazy to shop them every time.
I saw an ASCII reference here too in a bad pun, well I wrote an image-ASCII converter...It does edge tracing (badly) too!

Oh, and to get some maths geekery in there, I have a half done raycaster too. In PHP too, which adds to the pointlessly geeky value!

Did I mention I've been single for 2 years now? Can't think why!
( palmr The speaking clock says:, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:56, 1 reply)

Another reminder*, thanks furnace!
I almost bought a binary clock once, but it annoyed me that it was a seperate register for each decimal digit, and not just two - one for hours and one for minutes. I wanted to have to read 001101-100101, not 0001-0011-0011-0111.

*I don't like where this is going - how nerdy do you have to be that 3 posts in one page remind you of something nerdy you do, and that you can relate to another 10 or so?
(misanthrope is so adjective he's verbing nouns!, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:52, Reply)

I have to on numerous occasions...
...have to stop myself from audibly saying "lol". It's also the same with abbreviated type too, ROFL, LMAO and WOW to name but a few.

Wrt WoW btw p;

Got me 1st 70 last week.
Running a guild.
Me daughter's 1st birthday today.
Wondering how to fit in enough PVP to get me 5th Gladiator Welfare drop (Gladiator Plate Shoulders if anyone's wondering) whilst celebrating my daughter's birth anniversary.

I also know how to play Yugioh!, which should not be allowed, and can finish Street Fighter 2 Turbo on level 8 with the SNES pad behind my back.

The only thing that stops me being 100% nerd is the fact that I'm normally drunk while performing all of the above. I guess the alcohol makes the nerd escape. Kind of a Jeckyll and Hyde, but sponsored by Carling.

PS that QOTW example has to be Frankspencer :D
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:49, 1 reply)

not so much a nerd...
... as a geek. i think its the right term?
Since starting uni i have found i love tasks like harvard referencing and research. And just generally writing reports.
Its got to the point now where i am editing/writing several peoples work in the days leading up to deadlines.
I also have the entire red dwarf box set and can quote hundreds of lines from heart.
Oh, and i love filing and organising and arranging anything :)
(Emily Salvage, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:47, 1 reply)

If I ever need to count on my fingers
I use binary, since this means I can count upto 1023 rather than the standard 10 (and thats ten not two before some smart arse says it).
( Furness, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:43, 3 replies)

Hmmmmmmmmm
I'm a member of the magic circle.

It doesn't get any nerdier than that.

Game set and match too me.

Kick.
(kickstandrich last had sex with your mum/sister/wife/daughter on, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:42, Reply)

I'm so nerdy


my legs fell off.
(A Hospital Carpark, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:39, 2 replies)

Totally unrelated but I have to get this off my chest
I've posted a few tales regarding my marriage break up. Whilst I have found it cathartic in a way that talking to my shrink wasn't, it's all been done in context of that week's particular question. Mostly. I may have gone off on a tangent at some point...

However...

Whilst the circumstances behind my marriage break up led to my meeting the sweary one, and has led me to extreme happiness and b3ta, I found out the other day that my ex has a terminal brain tumour, and has a few months to live at best. This has left me a bit shellshocked to say the least.

This probably isn't the right forum for this, but do I care? Do I fuck.

Pauline, I would just like to say that I would never have wished this on you. I have known you for almost half of my life, and I sincerely hope that you get to do what you want to do in your remaining time. My thoughts are with you, and I have never regretted the time we had together, not once.

Even though you don't read this, my brother and sister send their love. I hope I can pass this on in person at some point.

Michael.

x
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:37, 9 replies)

Confused Pedant reminds me...
...my start in programming came from a ZX81. It was promised to me for ages, but the folks never quite got around to digging it out from 'one of the boxes in the loft somewhere'. They did, after literally months of nagging, manage to look for long enough to find an accompanying 'learn to program the ZX81' book. Whoot! I learned my first programming language from a book, without the computer to test things out on. The ZX81 never did surface, but by the time I got my first computer (a spectrum+2 that christmas), I already knew enough to start pissing around writing crappy text adventures the day it came out of the box.

I did the same thing with PHP about 10/15 years later - took a book on holiday with no computer access and came back knowing enough to get stuck in.

More impatient than nerdy, but nerdy enough to warrant a mention.
(misanthrope is so adjective he's verbing nouns!, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:31, Reply)

Not as nerdy as I was a year ago...
I logged in to my Ultima Online account. I made a few difficult leather items waiting for my guaranteed skill gain on one character, marked a few runes on another for a project (I was halfway through a book collection that would be over 500 when complete), and then changed back to my main character for my usual online task - sorting out the items I had dumped into storage.

I'd sorted thousands of items, and I was not even close to halfway through. I had armour by sorted by type, multiple variations for different characters. I had weapons sorted by type and special abilities, and also by character. I had spell ingredients all over the place, and was keeping track of how much of each type I used so I could buy it in bulk in the right proportions. I had runebooks to all over the place, quite aside from the aforementioned project, that needed checking and sorting.

I was about an hour into this sorting on this particular evening when I was struck by a particularly pertinent question: "WTF?"

Why? Why do I waste an hour or two of my life every fucking night to categorise virtual items in a virtual house in a virtual land? Do I ever even play the game and you know, use the items? Do I fuck. Could I use an extra hour in bed? Fuck yeah, maybe then I won't be 5 minutes late for work and half-asleep until lunchtime every fucking day. Could I put £20 a month to better use? Fuck yeah, I've been living on nothing but toast and pilfered jam/marmalade/marmite/etc at work for the last month. I hate the job anyway, but what's stopping me getting off my arse and getting another one? A pretend sword that I'll never even use is in the wrong pretend box. Whoop-de-fucking-do. I even spent £50 a while back to buy enough gold to buy a virtual house that was in a nicer virtual location. Maybe my guitar could use a play once in a while - it's been months since I've spent any more than 5 minutes on it. Maybe there's more to life than changing a couple of numbers in somebody else's database, cared about only by other people who are also too blinkered by the truly trivial to notice that they're wasting their lives.

I laughed mercilessly at myself, logged out, edited my credit card numbers to gibberish in my account settings, smoked a fat one and played guitar all damn night.

I've never been back, or even been tempted... but I still can't quite bring myself to delete the accounts. What a twat.
(misanthrope is so adjective he's verbing nouns!, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:09, 4 replies)

There was a time...
When I cared more about megahertz than tits.
When I thought playing Unreal Tournament or chatting on mIRC was socialising.
When exercise was something stupid people did to fill their time.
When having a crush on a girl meant ignoring her and dealing with the despair of knowing you'll never have the courage to ask her out, while comforting yourself with marathon insta-gib sessions on UT, fuelled by laughing cow sandwiches at 3 in the morning.
When programming was fun and exciting.
I was certainly intelligent at school with a lot of potential.
Of course the bullies saw this as a perfect opportunity to make themselves feel better about their diminutive brains so took it upon themselves to make me feel like scum, purely because I voluntarily read books, understood physics and didn't have to write French phonetically.
Over the years this had a conditioning effect and my grades slowly but surely fell, though the bullying continued.


Now, several years on, things haven't changed completely, but they are certainly different. I'm not so much of a gamer, I still eat sandwiches at rediculous times, I'm more confident (often helped by alcohol), would never take shit from any "bully" and I exercise by way of gymnastics every sunday. I also use a mac (shoot me, but know that I'd rather use linux).
I'm not immensely successful with the women but I've had my experiences.
Bare in mind, I still turn on my computer first thing in the morning and off last thing at night, have spent a lot of time/money on computer games (not a vastly unhealthy amount though) and am currently making a small robot for my final year university project.
I also often spend free time working on formant synthesis.
I have a strong inner geek, but he is very much kept inside.
(joepublic 's opinion does not represent that of the public, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:03, 2 replies)

FM
I play football manager whenever I have spare time, and I do mean whenever.

On the “game time” section, I have spent 23 days 18 hours and 43 minutes playing. That’s over 3 weeks of me sitting on the sofa playing a crappy game,

I also do mock pre/post game interviews when im having a crap/smoke/at work/whenever really.

I got my team to the FA cup final once, I got dressed in a suit and did all the stuff the old BBC pre show would do.

I work out formations and what players to buy all the time.

Im surprised my missus hasn’t kicked me out yet, I spend more time on this game than with her.
(Lanceuppercut, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:00, Reply)

I sickened myself with my automotive nerdyness
And I did this unintentionaly

Recently walking through a car park and ahead in one of the bays was a nice shiny S-Class Mercedes. Now I have a particular interest in Mercs, having had dealings with some nice classic ones and more recent models , anyway as I got closer I heard the familiar sound of a Mercedes diesel engine thrum into life (told you I was a nerd), and I though, oh it’s a diesel, which is quite unusual here in Australia.

But the car did not move and as I got closer I saw that it had not started up and in fact it was some large 4X4, I felt disappointed and relived at the same time that my nerdyness had failed me.

However,

As the 4X4 came towards me I notice it was one of those ugly SsangYong’s and they are powered by a re-engineered Mercedes Diesel engine.....AARRGHHH!!
(Podboy, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 0:50, Reply)

Oh dear god...
Where do I start..?

I am a self confessed Doctor Who fanatic. If I had the money I would have every bit of merchandise ever produced. I have about 100 DVDs and VHS recordings. I went to the Nebula convention in Liverpool in 1990 and drooled over Nicola Bryant in front of my ex-wife. I had a Louis Marx toy Dalek, which if I hadn't been a scrotty little 5 year old with no concept of value would have been worth a few quid by now...

A few years ago, I bought myself a full size replica Dalek with some money I'd been left (a Genesis of the Daleks model, if anyone's interested). It sits proudly at the bottom of the stairs (and we've NEVER been burgaled, so what does that tell you)?. At this very moment, I'm wearing Dalek cufflinks...

But that isn't geeky at all.

Oh no.

You see, a few years ago, a magazine called Loaded hit the shelves. It's basically soft core porn for people who are too pant-shittingly scared to buy Razzle, or Mayfair (so I'm told). It's marketed as a 'bloke's' magazine and has stuff in it about beer, and fast cars, and stuff.

Oh, and women.

Scantily clad women. In their underkeks. Sometimes, they're not even WEARING A BRA!!!

It'll never catch on, if you ask me.

However, one day I found myself buying a copy. Not because of the articles about beer, or fast cars. Not because of the report of a man who got bitten by a shark and lived to sell his story to a glossy, UK based lads mag that finds it's way to the continent 2 months later than its publish date. Not even because there was a particularly attractive woman on the cover who was spilling out of her bra, and who would have almost certainly been flashing her nipples inside the covers...

No. Oh no.

I bought it on the basis that, as part of their profiles on 'Greatest Living Englishmen' they had a 1-page article on Tom Baker...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 0:38, 4 replies)

when i was 11...
I went to a train museum. I then proceeded to buy a notebook and oen (for recording the train numbers) and an anorak.

A year later and the notebook lay on my desk unused, laughing at me and my nerdish ways. So i thought i'd become cool and filled the notebook with secret ways to sneak down and watch porn whilst my parents were asleep (Operation XXX) and it even told me how loud i should have the tv on and my parents pin code.

It's my 18th birthday on Tuesday and now i'm well cool. The notepad still lies in my desk draw...the anorak still lies unused, mocking me with it's blue and yellow nylon colours.
(Foulkesy123 The one and only..., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 0:31, Reply)

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(meepmeep is, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 0:14, 5 replies)

I ruined my life with nerdiness.
I work in a factory, I could have finished University and gotten a good job but I spend all my time instead playing online games and doing things for the lulz. I think these points prove my nerdiness. I'm female too, I don't know what the hell happened.

1. One time my laptop was away for repair and instead of leaving the house I played ps2 for a week straight because it's the closest to a computer I had.

2. I collect vintage games consoles and creamed myself when I got a megadrive with 11 games off of ebay. I even stayed up until 6am in case anyone outbid me.

3. I've picked up so much useless trivia from the internet I've forgotten how to speak French. People have said things to me like "what's that film where everyone was underground?" and I immediately knew the answer.

4. I own several action figures, still in their original box due to value.

5. I have a big poster of Doctor Who standing outside the Tardis on my wall and one of those sonic screwdriver toys. I'm 26 years old.

6. I still live with my mum.

7. Oh, and I'm also a Trekkie.
(chakaflange, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 0:02, 5 replies)

Comics
Oh I was seriously into comics as a wee boy - Marvel, DC, Fleetway ..... I loved em all.

But I grew out of it when I doscovered booze, ladies etc.

Then, a couple of years ago, I went into Forbidden Planet to buy a present for a mate, just for old times sake. And Oh My God - the comics you can buy nowadays! And the Action Figures! It's like a comic come to life!

I've just about managed to keep the book side of things under control, given that I am an adult now and hold down a respectable job - but as I write this I can turn around and see Captain America, Ultimate Iron Man, Judge Dredd, Superman, The Wasp, Thor and Warbird staring back at me from my shelf ..... And I can't help thinking that all my little display needs is The Hulk to be complete.

I hide them when friends come to visit, too. I can do nothing about the two pages of original 2000 AD artwork hanging in frames in the kitchen, tho. Good thing our visitors think it's a display of kitsch cool.

Length? Usually seven to nine inches of moulded, poseable plastic.
(El Fandango carved a big EF onto his nemesis' doublet on .., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 0:02, Reply)