I have
nearly the entire collection of action figures from The Matrix Trilogy still sealed, including some unpainted prototypes.
(twoheads Is currently broke on, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 19:15, 1 reply)

there are 10 types of nerd
those who understand binary, those who don't, ... and those who understand Gray code.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 18:46, 4 replies)

It's amazing really..
I've never read so many posts on qotw that I have no understanding of. It's like trying to decipher a different language.
( girlinthehole, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 18:35, 1 reply)

There are 10 types of nerd:
Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
(silencer, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 18:25, 4 replies)

I'm not sure if this counts as nerdy but...
My usename is from a character in the PS One RPG Suikoden.

I have the complete collections of James Bond, Red Dwarf, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell (S.A.C.), Cowboy Bebop and Hellsing.

My last house used to be a shrine to Final Fantasy (complete with Squall & Rinoa wall hangings). I have all of the Final Fantasy games currently available on PS One, PS2 and PSP. I stopped playing FF XI because it wasn't "Final Fantasy-ish enough". The FF stuff has been put away now just in case my kids destroy it.

I collect/read Terry Pratchett Discworld novels.

I own three different Amstrad CPCs. I used to collect Dizzy games (oh the shame of it!)

I used to watch VR Troopers, Masked Rider and Power Rangers (the stuff ripped off from Zyuranger) and collect all of the memorabillia. I stopped after they started adding footage from Dairanger. Err... I'll quit the sentai references now.

I used to play online RPGs (text stuff) based on... the Wheel of Time (I also have the complete collection of books including the World of Wheel of Time reference book). I bought the WoT tabletop but my nerdy pals think that *this* is too nerdy to play.

My mobile ringtone is the Ironside tune as used in Kill Bill although occasionally I may switch to the nurse whistle.

I used to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel almost religiously. I'm waiting for the new series of Dead Like Me (*cries*).

My brother has the nerd gene too... he collects Dr Who DVDs among other things.
( Templeton Blah, blah, blah..., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 18:14, 3 replies)

Food
I am a food geek.

If you want to know anything about the use of sugar during the Victorian era or the use of food as a way to strive for a homogenous culture during the early 1900s or the rise of cake mixes in the 1950s and 1960s or the social significance of bread during the Medieval period, I am here for you. If you don't want to know these things, I recommend staying far away from me if I'm cooking, in a grocery store or near food of any kind.

Need a recipe for a Civil War-era cake, a Jazz Age salad meant to resemble a candle, a Roman condiment, a Rhodesian chicken dish or a Victorian beverage? I can provide.

Now if you will excuse me, I'm off to reshelve my massive collection of cookbooks (roughly 1,000 of them) and food history books.
(louveciennes , Volvospotter, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 18:13, 4 replies)

lost to Warcraft
yes I am one of those nerds.......a World of Warcraft addict.

I spend most of my time awake on the pc collecting items and gathering gold. If i didn't work I'd be there alot more often.

Its just so damned addictive...ok i gotta get back to my wowing now.

/relurk

Catswhiskers xx
( catswhiskers the cats mother, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 18:07, Reply)

oh dear god
I was in the Camarilla.

If you don't know what that means, I don't think I should tell you, but anyway -

I once, while aged 18 or so, created a 'character' whom I played for a while, who was:
a 13-year-old-boy with
the soul of a fairy that was
the bloodthirsty nightmare of
a GAMES WORKSHOP fictional
superhuman ten-thousand-year-old
mass-murdering chain-axe wielding
blood-god worshipping
fuckhead.

and I played him once, and in the game, I killed about 40 policemen, and the in-game equivalent of one of the other quite annoying people who was there playing the game.

and I was meant to be running that game for about 12 other people,

and it was shit.

so I never played it again.
(chikkstrel, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 18:04, 3 replies)

I'll let this one speak for me.
I created this while I was still working for Zee Germanss.

'Nuff said.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 17:51, 2 replies)

I have...
The original Teenage mutant ninja turtles film on DVD.
(Who blew luigi, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 17:41, 1 reply)

Really nerdy...
And so is my missus George. We make a perfect couple and on sundays we alphabetize our record collections...

*breaks into "White and Nerdy" by Weird Al....*


(obviously we're all nerds, we get the B3TA newsletter!!)
(By George I Think He's Got It! It's not fucking Sheep is it?!, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 17:36, Reply)

Sitting next to me...
...in a half-height Dell rack, are the following;

1 x HP DL360G1
2 x HP DL380G2
2 x HP DL580G2
1 x HP MSA30 with 14 146GB disks
1 x Compaq 1850r (for nostalgia reasons)

This is my home office.

I'm not saying "WINNAR!!!". I'm just saying that there has to be some element of geekness, if only for the 1850r because I can't bear to get rid of it.

Hey wait I've just realised - maybe this is why I am nearly deaf in my right ear!
(Guizmeaux, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 17:33, Reply)

Me and Excel
I have made extreeeeeeemly detailed pictures of my office and all things in it, pens, staples, paperclips, post-in notes with the writing on, using the autoshapes and hyperlinks in Excel. I looks identical and I've started using it as a traning manual to tell people where things are or where to put stuff.
The worst part is that I fucking LOVE it.
(Mr.Dog was in love again on, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 17:15, 2 replies)

Wasted youth...
For several years I dated a computer programmer / D&D fan / all-round geek.
He was almost as tedious as the majority of the answers this week.

Of course he earns a fortune now, and I'm single.
(mingping, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 17:14, 1 reply)

I find Thom Yorke
unbearably attractive.
( Matoosh would rather like a biscuit, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:56, 1 reply)

I'm alwyas being told I'm a nerd.
The most recent reasons given for my nerd status (both by my dad) were that I wear glasses on my head even though I don't need them but because I think they make me look smart (geek chic, if you will) and because I admitted I go on the Oxford Dictionary website to read about obscure words for fun.

It is fun, dammit.
(hoochalobster, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:49, 1 reply)

Im no Geek
My Current PC

Q6600 2.4 GHz (GO Stepping) Quadcore Oc'd to 3 GHz (stable) using air (Arctic cooling freezer 7 pro), that I won in an arm wrestling contest against Lincoln Hawk

4 (1x4) Gig of GeIL Ultra Low Latency DDR2 800MHz that I was awarded by Dave Courtney after carrying Ronnie Krays casket through the streets of London... Barefoot

Creative X-FI Fatal1ty Pro Soundcard and I/O Hub (and Fatal1ty Headset) that the Mother Superior gave me for saving all those children from the great St. Louise's Orphanage fire of 2005

XFX Alpha Dog XXX 8800GT 512 1950MHz,GDDR3, 670MHz, 112 streams, that was willed to me by a bitter, cynical man on his death bed whom I volunteered to read to in an effort to open him up and allow him to make peace with his estranged son

Antec P182 Case in Gun Metal black which Rosa Parks gave me after I offered her my seat on the bus, whilst simultaneously holding the police back

620HX Corsair PSU with modular Cableing that Charles Bronson (the hardman, not the actor) gave to me once I had proved how much fitter I was than him whilst having to exercise in a room 4 foot smaller than the 'palace' he had

2 x Sony DVD writers with lightscribe that I got for trying my hardest to stop a line of tanks from crossing Tiananmen Square back in the late 80's

And I'm hoping to buy a Dell Ultrasharp 2408WFP 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor as soon as I get back from behind enemy lines

...some of the above may be a lie
(Snuffy114 demands a cyber razor cut, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:49, 5 replies)

Star Wars Tattoo
I think this shows that I am a nerd at heart !

I had a great comment regarding my tattoo last week

"Those tattoos are simultaniously the most awesome and the saddest things I've ever seen!"

i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg21/AdmiralPellaeon/Star%20wars%20tattoo/100_2563.jpg
(AdmiralPellaeon, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:42, 5 replies)

I just installed and configured
Oracle's BIEE suite on a vmware server..... does this make me a geek?
( WOLF .™, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:39, 2 replies)

Misguided geekery
I once hired a van to go and collect about 150 old laptops (mostly missing the hard drives and power adaptors) just because I thought the parts might be useful one day.

They probably are (in fact I've managed to get a few of them to run Windows) but I just can't be arsed. They're mostly Pentium 2 and Pentium 3, Dell, IBM and Compaq.

If anyone wants 150 laptops, name your price.
(Half of Stephen Fry's right buttock pissed on your dog on, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:36, 3 replies)

Nerd jokes
I am nerdy enough that I laughed out loud when a colleague told me the following (apologies if this joke is widely known already):

Q: What goes "Pieces of seven, pieces of seven."?
A: A parroty error.

The real shame of this is that I desperately want someone else to find it funny but none of my mates would get it.

p.s I also have a dymo labeller and have labelled every cable and relevant socket in the house. Kill me, kill me now!
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:20, 4 replies)

OCD, or nerdery?
I have the smallest details about my life planned out in my diary.

For instance:

- Monday: buy weed
pay rent
- Tuesday: clean toilet
- Wednesday: phone x about y


This may seem perfectly normal (or not), but if I don't do it then I'm in constant turmoil worrying about what I have to do in the future.

Is anyone else like this?

My worst one to date is: Friday - go out. As if I would forget.
(Half of Stephen Fry's right buttock pissed on your dog on, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:12, 5 replies)

Im brian, and so's my dad
I am the son of an engineer, grandson of an engineer, and have two engineer uncles. pretty much every man in my family has some sort of engineering/science background. As such we all feel the need to accumulate tools.

regardless of how often we need them we will go out and acquire obscure tools and gadgets. a family of hoarders. Never are plumbers/builders/electricians called out in our family, to eschew DIY is a slight on the family way. We are a people of technical skills its in our blood.

I am no exception, I have the need for cool computer gadgets and unlimited freewere. My tool collection takes up an entire wardrobe. My car is a old clunker, I take pride in the ability of the mighty gaffa tape to hold it together. I could rewire a plug from age 7, and to this day would rather build furniture than buy it.

despite being 21, my new fan heater is a source of pride to me as it has more features than my housemates one. I brag about the technical spec of it and any other of my possessions. I still love my sega megadrive, and believe it to be the pinnacle of gaming technology. Weird al is on my MP3 player, that is also held together with gaffa tape.

Is this madness? No this is nerdcore!
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 15:59, Reply)

I can play
"still alive" on the guitar
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 15:55, Reply)

keyboard shortcuts
I work with computers all day, with (amongst other things) Photoshop and InDesign being high on my list for typesetting and Cubase for audiobook production. As such I am committed to learning as many keyboard shortcuts as I can. I can resize and save for web in Photoshop in about 10 seconds...

I am also gradually trying to learn the special character shortcuts (getting there); for example ALT0169 is ©, ALT0150 is – and ALT0233 is é. Those are just a few of the ones I can do off the top of my head... For some reason I think this is a necessary skill.

It really pisses me off that Microsoft Office doesn't have some of the same shortcuts... Why can't CTRL-SHIFT-S be 'Save As... and CTRL-SHIFT-Z be 'Redo' like everyone else?! Aaaargh!
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 15:52, 3 replies)

A minor obsession...
I was a bit of a geek growing up being of the BBC-B (anyone remember LOGO) and Spectrum age, and I still work in IT now... but that is the beginning of my secret shame.

I am to this day a bit obsessed with 70's Sci-Fi, specifically Blake's 7. I've never gotten up the courage to go to a convention, but am strangely curious as to what one would be like...

Oh and I use a Mac, which I've customised with HAL9000 sounds.

I'll get my coat.

/Lurk
(ColdLazarus, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 15:51, 1 reply)

You non Geeks
To all those people posting "Im not a geek, Im well Cool"

Look at what your posting.
Look at where your posting it.
Ask yourself if you are seriously cool why would you be on an internet chat room posting a response about not being a geek?
Shouldn't you be spending your time sharing a Benson and fingering Molly Spencer and comparing prune fingers after??
Shouldn't you be cruising round the suburbs in your 1.2 Nova playing Scooter at dangerous volumes a chucking water bombs at OAPS??
You should at least be be drawing tattoos on your forearm with a blunt compass!


Those who protest the loudest......
( KISS.ME.WHERE.I.POO Signed the sex offenders register on, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 15:49, 10 replies)

PCs and CDs
In all seriousness, I get a semi just thinking about my Ubuntu desktop.

Oh, and my CDs are alphabetised by artist, at my girlfriends insistence, after she claimed she could never find anything. What's wrong with sorting them by decade, genre* and then artist I want to know.

*In case you were wondering, genres were placed in the decade that saw their major flowering. Obviously
(Go on , touch it, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 15:48, Reply)

I may be in denial
I like to think that I am a well rounded individual, neither geek nor chav or any where in between for that matter...my girlfriend disagrees.

I am/have been heavily obsessed with many sci-fi films and TV shows.

I have had way too many unhealthy obsessions with various computer games.

I am a member of CAMRA, this apparently makes me a beer geek.

I enjoy the odd port and cheese night.

I am more excited than I should be about the commencing of experiments involving the Large Hadron Collider, even though I have no affiliation with particle physics other than personal interest.

I think my only saving grace is the fact that I have a poor memory and an even smaller attention span thus not allowing my inner geek to grow to ridiculous proportions.

BUT...I really, really enjoy reading chemical safety data sheets.

And I lived in Hyrule and had a horse called Epona in a past life.Honest
(tedalaki - Like Purple Aki but better, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 15:35, 2 replies)