Stargate madness
I'm watching Stargate SG-1 all the way through (though not at once because that's a week straight). I've had dreams about it and there are no less than 3 drawings of Stargates in my notebook.

I think I have a problem.


I also play Dwarf Fortress for hours on end with no graphic mods.
(Skooma, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 19:51, Reply)

This is me gardening

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 19:34, 3 replies)

It's not being nerdy, it's organizational skills
Or OCD.

During my degree, I catalogued each set of lecture notes (after having rewritten them and annotated them) as to whether they were "notes", "handouts", tutorials", "supplementary information", "exam related information", "practice exam questions" or "other". Christ knows what was in "other".

I then sold the right to photocopy my notes for ten pence per lecture to the rest of my class.

Now as a grown up, I read Nature and Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences for fun. And I own a $200 label maker. I bar code things for entertainment...
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 19:23, Reply)

I'm nerdier than the lot of you.
When I get in of an evening, what do you think I watch on TV?

Soaps?
News?
Porn?

No, I watch hardly any of this. When I get in of an evening I watch:

BBC Parliament.

That's right, most of my night consists of watching our elected officials argue with each other. In fact I watched the Lisbon referendum last night from 4pm to 7.30 when the voting was happening.

Yes, it's true. I'm a political anorak :(
(defectivearticle, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 19:19, 2 replies)

I don't consider myself a nerd but...
... it would appear that knowing what TNG and TOS stand for, taking my lecture notes in different colours, having a periodic table and graphing caluclator within 15 seconds reach made me score 91% on an nerd test.

I will admit to being a biology and statistics geek though. If you are watching a cosmetics advert that claims 85% of testers agreed, you will probably hear me screaming "but 100 people is hardly a decent sample size. And how did they pick the participants?".

I also cry whenever reading the science news in the Daily Fail. But then again, anyone with at least one brain cell would cry at the quality of their science reporting.

My love of The Legend of Zelda games is bordering dangerous. I want the triforce tattooed onto my left hand, and would kill for a Zelda themed wedding.

I too am single. But I'm not deathly pale. Because I'm Asian, not because of outdoor activities.
(ToysForBigBoys would spread her legs for Nick Clegg., Thu 6 Mar 2008, 19:15, 2 replies)

well....
I play Warhammer
and Warhammer 40,000
beat that!!

length? about 3cm for each model
(alpha doesn't have a witty phrase to write here, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 19:10, 1 reply)

Nerdy? Well, you judge
Met Joss Whedon - Twice
Met all the cast members of Firefly - Not quite check (Damn you Gina Torres!)
Have signed box set of aforementioned Firefly - Check
Own the complete Buffy box set - Check
Actually in the Resident Evil:Extinction novelisation and do NOT die because of Zombies - Check
Extensive games collection - Check
Extensive RPG collection - Check
Extensive DVD collection - Check
Extensive Comic Collection - Check
Own Babylon 5 "standees" - Check

and there's a lot more besides..

My job? computers..
My relationship status - Single

So, Am I nerdy?
(thatguythere is wondering where he is, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 19:08, 1 reply)

Obsessive compulsive maker
I make things rather than buy them.

My flat has velux type roof lights, without the brackets for the very expensive velux blinds. Instead of taking up the landlords offer of some free blinds I made my own (brackets and poles included). It took nearly 6 months to eventually finish them all but they're ace.

Having finished the curtain project I needed a new challenge so not content with buying a TV from a shop I bought 4 TFT monitors off ebay and have mounted the panels in a 2x2 metal frame I made. Unfortunately the internal cables weren't long enough but today some longer ones arrived from an industrial electronics wholesaler. The top right one works but not wired the others up yet.

My doors are wired up to about 50 white LEDs which provide just enough light for 60 seconds after a door is opened to allow you to get your shoes on/off and find the desired door handle.

I also regularly take my bike completely to pieces in order to clean it, only to go out for a ride in the mud the next day but that's not quite what I would call 'nerdy'.
( thistle, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 18:59, Reply)

Some John Menzies geekery
When they used to sell ZX Spectrums I could locate the computer department by sound. And then I'd do this:

10 POKE 23606,8
20 FOR i=1 TO 10: PRINT "Bnllncnqd": PRINT FLASH 1;"Rtbjr ": NEXT i
30 PAUSE 1: BORDER 1: BORDER 2: BORDER 3: BORDER 4: BORDER 5: BORDER 6: BORDER 7: GO TO 30

Oh how we laughed, especially when the counter staff pressed BREAK.
(gordonjcp, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 18:58, Reply)

born again D&D geek man
We used to know this bloke called Mike who worked in a Christian bookshop (one of the scariest places on the planet - you don't know nerds till you've met a theology nerd) and who was unhealthily into D&D. He had the pasty skin and everything.

One night my wife and I were watching the tail end of I?the 80's and they started talking about the rise of D&D, showing footage of a D&D convention. Just as I said "heh, I bet Mike was there" it panned to a close up of Mike! Huzzah.
(teasus likes tea, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 18:52, 1 reply)

Girl nerds rule!
I am a bespectacled female roboticist and computer programmer.
I have an extensive anime collection. None of that DBZ crap though. Yay for giant robots!
I am a trekkie. Picard is the best captain.
Red Dwarf and Monty Python are great and so is Black Adder.
I love old comic books. I have over 3000 last time I checked. I keep meaning to catalog them.
I will analyze movies for technical faults and get annoyed when comic book movies have errors.
The tops of my desk and bookcase are packed with robot and anime action figures.
I love video games, especially Halo. I have a Game Boy, Intellivision, Sega Genesis, Nintendo, Playstation, Xbox, and Xbox 360. I am currently trying to get through Halo 3.

Edit: I almost forget. I am contagious. I caused my mom to get addicted to anime and my dad to get addicted to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Edit2: My new pride and joy Sentinel
(evil_penguin_17 Robots of Doom... Attack!, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 18:51, 3 replies)

Nerd to the max
I think the fact that I own my own labcoat (with name badge!) and goggles sets me up perfectly in the nerd stakes.

I used to be into DnD. A lot. Our DM had a fantastic imagination. I used to have Wednesdays off work, so one Wednesday, we embarked on another fun-filled killing spree adventure. 15 hours and countless cups of tea later, we are all shitting ourselves thinking that there's something outside the kitchen window because the DM has described everything so well (and possibly because of the caffiene overdose). We had also drawn our characters and written life histories for them. Oh god, reading it makes it seem even sadder. I may have to go cry in the corner.

When I first started my job, I noticed two of the guys on my team played "Magic, The Gathering" at lunchtimes. So to make conversation, I told them my past adventures with DnD but it's gone wrong, they keep asking me to join them and are trying to teach me how to play. Aaargh!
( El Lazarus is calm now, Ish,, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 18:42, Reply)

well..
..i'm getting a QR Code tattoo done that says "1337" when I scan it on my phone

I'm hacking my N95 to update a facebook app with my GPS coords

I have a USB toy attached to my server that flaps its wings when people visit my site - I coded it and still giggle when it goes off

I own 3 lasers and am trying to use them to write rude words on clouds

I can send email just using telnet (and have done)

*deep breath*

I figured out the solution to a particularly annoying Perl problem whilst having sex *and* stopped to write it down

yeah i'm done
(pissycocks GIRAFFETASTIC!, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 18:38, 3 replies)

Geeky more than nerdy.
Just about every piece of equipment I own that I can get a programming cable onto has some sort of custom firmware.

I've got a PDP-11 in my spare bedroom.

I'm fairly obsessive about cable tidying, but then again I've seen mymilkshakebringsallthemongstotheyard threaten to take a Stihl saw down the front of someone's wiring cabinet before - I'm not quite that bad.
(gordonjcp, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 18:32, Reply)

Excelsior
I've played and spent about a grand on Warhammer,
clocked up about four hundred hours on my collective FF (Final Fantasy) games.
My crowning glory is a framed Pokemon blue game, that i have all 151 Pokemon in my Pokedex..
I of course keep it hidden under a floorboard unless anybody shall see my obsession.
(shake'n'bake Tally Ho, Biatch!, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 18:31, Reply)

nah, sure I'm not
...I mean, so I'm a bit obsessed with Buffy (watched every episode at least 5 times, most a lot more but there's some that aren't worth more than that), failed my degree cos I was getting Tony Hawk 2 100% completed instead of revising, missed new year's eve before last because me and the girlfriend were watching Azumanga Daioh DVDs, spent yesterday morning at work explaining the electromagnetic spectrum to the girl I sit next to, for fun...nah, I'm fine.

especially when you consider the following:

my younger brother has named his external hard drive and mp3 player after star trek characters

my older brother gave me his DVD of Fight Club because the person who gave it to him wrote "happy birthday" on the inlay and it ruined it for him

my old housemate realised the neck on one of my guitars had been replaced because the serial number on the head didn't match the paint finish on the body...without having to look it up on the internet or anything

the drummer in my band made an excel spreadsheet to see if buying a van would be cheaper in the long run than renting one...

...all seems like normal behaviour to me.
( yes yes yes man oi mate, someone's writtten 'bum' on your neck, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 18:30, Reply)

I entered Robot Wars
Many of my friends at university followed Robot Wars and spent ages talking about how to build a winning robot. I was one of the few who actually went on and built one. I wish I'd been able to enter the first few series, when robots were mostly wheelchair motors screwed onto wooden boxes. Unfortunately, by the time I had a house big enough and enough money to enter, it was onto series six.

By this time, most of the entrants were serious mechanical engineers with their own machine shops, and were making some very professional robots. I had a cordless drill and a hacksaw. Even so, I managed to spend about 2000 pounds over two years trying to get a machine ready to fight.

Naturally I was beaten in the first round - the qualifying rounds before the first televised rounds. To make things worse, my opponent drove straight into the pit on the first fight, so I can't even say I was beaten by anyone that good.

"Cayenne" now sits in my front room under a sheet of plywood acting as a coffee table.
( JimM, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 18:16, 2 replies)

My whole life revolved around the Commodore 64
Okay, so that's a lie. I did have friends... whose lives also revolved around the Commodore 64 and who I used to trade games with. I had the whole caboodle, including the floppy disc drive that cost twice as much as the computer. And Dolphin Dos, which actually made the floppy drive run at floppy drive speeds, rather than a bit faster than the cassette should have done.

I participated in all of the rivalry between the C64 and the Spectrum. "Only 38K free for BASIC" they'd taunt. "Who the hell programs in BASIC?" we'd reply.

And then Compunet came along: It was like Prestel/Micronet but fun. A bit like a baby Internet, run out of a cupboard somewhere in Perivale*. Fogg's Spot was probably the b3ta of its day. Well it had a similar balance of humour and filth anyway. Compunet also got me into the 'demo writing' thing, though my stuff was never of notable quality. My crowning achievement was a 16 line parallax sideways-scroller that gave you a blinding headache if you watched it for more than two and a half minutes.

*Now I'm waiting for the real geeks to come along and correct me.
( Horatio P Lemming, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 18:15, Reply)

Light sabre lap top
I have a little programme on my lap to that means it makes the sound of a light sabre when it's moved.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 6 Mar 2008, 18:14, 1 reply)

Computers
In my room I have the following:
PC with Q6600 (quad-core) processor, 4GB RAM, 2 500GB hard drives, 2 graphics cards (I'm not even a gamer)
3GHz P4 laptop
1GHz Duron laptop
P2 board that isn't connected to anything
8085, Z80 (these two run CP/M), 6502, COSMAC 1802 and 8088 computers hand-soldered by myself from individual components. Most of these involve programming in assembler for the bare metal. (The 1802 and 8088 ones aren't working properly, and neither is my attempt at this: Build Your Own ZX80) Also have a 68K chip I plan to build something with after I've got the 8088 one working.
BBC Buggy for which I have made a serial port interface, as I have the RML 480Z interface but no 480Z.

In my brother's room (because mine is too small) I have the following:
Sun Ultra 5
SGI Octane (dual processor, but the slowest one)- it's big, heavy and green.
iMac G3 400MHz
1.2GHz Duron board that isn't connected to anything at the moment

In the garage are all kinds of old computers including ZX81, RM Nimbus (anyone remember playing stuff like Smile and Granny's Garden on these?), BBC, C64, MSX, Spectrum, QL, CPC464, Mac Classic, Amiga, ST and more.

More information about me: I have Asperger Syndrome, live with my parents, and am single. 98% in GCSE Maths, something similarly high in A-Level Physics. Degree made up mostly of CompSci.
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Thu 6 Mar 2008, 18:13, 1 reply)

This is how I eat skittles
I seperate them by colour then eat them one at a time, with the most numerous colour until there is an equal number of each colour. I then eat them in alphabetical order of which fruit they represent. If two of different colours touch I must jumble them up and start again.I can't eat sour skittles because they don't represent fruits so they don't have an order.

Funnily enough m and ms are fine.

I'd think it were OCD except for it's only with skittles.
(Charlietron Still can't think of anything witty to put here, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 17:56, 4 replies)

One for the Red Dwarf fans
when my ex was pregnant with our son we were talking about names and I suggested

"Our Rob or Ross"

Flew straight over her head mind.

BUT we did name him Luke and I tell him that I am his father on a near daily basis.
(Barry Chuckle has gone out in the thong to feed the pigeons, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 17:51, 2 replies)

Woul;d be geekiness
I want - and can afford - the Millennium Falcon lego thing....more than 5000 pieces, 3 feet long, £350.

But my missus would bloody kill me, then my 6 year old son would trash it one day while I was at work.
( Fathter Puddytat Kill Kill dat widdle boid is mine on, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 17:48, 6 replies)

Inadvertant stamp collection
After recieving a package from hong kong (brought from a well known blood-sucking auction site) i found myself pretty impressed with the stamps on it. shame to throw those away me thinks and sellotapes them to my fridge.
It wasn't until i reached around 30 different stamps and my husband referred to it as my stamp collection, that i realised it was *infact* a stamp collection.
I have an excel spreadsheet with the stamp type, price, origin and content of parcel.
*bows head in shame*

Length? 4 foot with a noose on the end.
( Mrs.D, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 17:48, Reply)

Not so much nerdy as possibly in need of therapy...
I once turned down the offer of a threesome because they were excavating at Coventry Cathedral on Time Team that night and I really wanted to watch it.

Shooting's too good for the likes of me.
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 17:48, 5 replies)

Let's see...
I'm currently posting on an internet board.
While sat in a room devoted entirely to housing my various collections.
(Having enough space to house said collections is the main reason I took this flat.)
80% of my book collection is fantasy.
80% of my LP collection is 80's Rock and Metal. The rest is 70's Rock and Metal. (Alphabetised naturally)
I'm currently wearing a Project A-Ko T-shirt and I have the video programme from every single anime convention I have ever been to filed away.
I spend more on comics than I do on clothes.
Fresh air scares me.
People scare me. But I scare other people when I start talking about things I do for fun. Apparently reading for pleasure is "odd" Who knew?
I am so pale that white supremacists stop me in the street just to shake my hand.
My ideal woman would be a Japanese redhead in a chain-mail bikini.
Do I win?
Edit: I recently spent the best part of an afternoon trying to think of ways to kill the Cloverfield monster.
And I've already thought of another six things I should have mentioned first time around.
(Big D, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 17:48, Reply)

Meet
I met some b3tans last night - I reckon that qualifies :-)
(james_tiger_woods is going to start his killing spree on the, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 17:39, 8 replies)

Too much World of Warcraft...
Oh dear... too much to say here really so I'll keep it brief. I used to say things like rofl or lol aloud or perhaps even roflmao if the occassion had been particularly amusing.
Then there was the obsession with purple items-I had some woolly purple gloves which I would wear *all* the time (yes, even in the summer).
I would refer to my car as an epic mount having had to put up with riding round on a push-bike for god knows how long.
The worst part though had to be when I finally prized myself off it: I actually got the shakes :/
Anyways I feel all geeked out, remember kids when it comes to wow: just say no!
( Uncle Phallus Strong like fly, fast like elephant, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 17:38, 1 reply)

3.
141592653589793238462643383279502884197

That's as far as I can remember pi from memory. Not sure about the last 4 numbers, though.

Also, when I was in school, I was challenged by classmates to remember a random 100 digit number by the next day. I remembered it correctly!
(The Entity Remembered his login details on, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 17:38, Reply)