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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Where do I start?The better half and I have oodles of nerdiness between us, but its not always a good thing. A few of the classics are:
- Going to an alphabet themed fancy dress party, we got the letter K. Since I now work in finance I wore a suit and had 3 'K's stuck on the back, to signify that I was a stock with no voting rights on the NASDAQ. Yes, you guessed it, it totally bypassed me that KKK could mean something differently. The birthday girl had to ask me to remove my blazer as I was making people uncomfortable. The boyfried went as a potassium flame, dressed all in purple with a homemade purple crepe head-dress and purple face paint. He got asked if he was a flaming blueberry all night.
- Once I was at a noisy pub and I was about to head back for dinner. I texted boyfriend asking what he wanted for dinner. The reply? 3.1415. My reply? Chicken or Steak and Ale?
- When we were going to buy a car, boyfriend decided that the most efficient way was to construct a spreadsheet and insert parameters to come up with various criteria that would make it easier in deciding what car to buy. So, first off there was the horse power, then the estimation of the distance travelled in a year, followed by an approximation of wear and tear plus insurance costs, then multiplied by a factor of inflation in oil prices, finally weighed with the process of Swiss MOT and how quickly it could be done in the time frame allocated, he had a choice on the website of approximately 2,325 cars to choose from. We ended up buying an Audi because it was the only one in silver in our price range.
- Boyfriend used to have an innane habit of reeling off potential bus routes in London and numbers whenever we met someone who was just going somewhere, or friends we'd met up with who'd just come from somewhere.
Actually, I think boyfriend might have more stories about nerdiness than me, but then he's not writing this post so I'll keep mine hidden a bit longer.
EDIT: Length? Pi goes on and on...
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 13:43, 2 replies)
"Pi goes into hundreds of decimal places apparently"Oh dear
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Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 6 Mar 2008, 13:54,
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"EDIT: Okay, hundreds of millions."(Oh dear!)^2
(Yes, that's right: "dear factorial".)
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 15:29, closed)
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