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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I see it's confession time.I'm a scientist therefore nerdiness is in my job description. However, I have taken it too far. I can recite the periodic table. I can recall our NMR machine's operating frequency to as many digits as my pocket calculator can take and I secretly find that joke about the hydrogen atom losing its electron hilariating!
Also, when I got published for the first time last year, I printed out a copy, signed it and sent it to my brother for his Birthday.
Do I win?
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Raindance Work is inversely proportional to post-count, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 13:58,
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I used to be a lab coat monkeyCould strip an HPLC or GC to its nuts and bolts and then rebuild it with a slightly improved signal to noise ratio.
I'm an office bod now though, so more geek than nerd.
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