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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John barnesJohn Barnes - *snort* if that really is your name, sit back and i shall explain.
Its perfect because it does everything it should and it does it well. It has no fancy things on it, it is a phone and not much else. It takes minimal effort to make/recieve a call or send/recieve a text. It was cheap, the battery lasts for 10 days - easily (nothing else in the world comes close). It takes a half an hour to charge (on the occasional time i hop in the car, i dont own a normal charger for it), I am clumsy - i have dropped this phone every day for about 6 years and bar a few scratches its never failed me.
I got a sparky new N95 a while back - lasted me a week - a) cos i dropped it and it broke and b) my missus said the change in my stress levels was extraordinary that week, when i went back to the trusty 6310, i went back to normal.
All my opinions are applicable to me of course. YMMV. However, my friends and colleagues are always surprised that i dont have the latest things and i have the piss taken out of me a lot. The truth is I think they're all morons for buying and using things because of hype. Almost everyone I meet and talk to about their latest "thing" says 'oh its a piece of shit'. People it seems are desensitised/trained in to accepting sub standard crap these days.
The same can be applied to lots of things. A friend came up to me and said "I just got a new contract on my phone, only £45 a month'. £45 a month? what? I didnt pay that in 1991 when I got my first mobile/brick.
Oh and while we're on about it. Why the fuck do we pay for text messaging? 10p? Do people actually thing it costs the telcos anything approaching 10p to send or recieve a text? Jesus the cost is probably 1/100000th of that. What a scam.
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I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 16:04,
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