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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University setI was asked as part of a presentation for a job interview to describe how my research could fit with the Department's existing research themes.
My slide show presented my research - in conjunction with their research - in the form of a Venn diagram with my research sitting firmly in the intersection.
It gets worse: I colour-coded the text in the sets as R, G and B with the text in the overlaps being the combination of the set colours.
Computer scientists are geeks by definition. They loved it. I got the job.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 15:45,
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