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This is a question 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.

(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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I have a life these days, but...
I have an unhealthy fascination in:

Keyboards. Specifically clicky ones, and Dvorak layouts. None of that wireless plastic shit. IBM Model M keyboards, or IBM Model M spaceservers. At work and at home I use hardwired Unicomp Dvorak keyboards. mmmm clicky :)

CRTs, from the two 22" CRT monitors on my desk (plus the 17" TFT) - in a 3 monitor arrangement - over 5,000 horizontal desktop pixels wide and over 1,000 deep. Also, the Barcographics 1208/2 projector bolted to my lounge ceiling with 3 8" CRT tubes on it.

Old operating systems and computers. Despite the fact my main desktop is Vista x64, I've forgotten more about OS/2 than most people ever knew. I still run Vista, Irix, OpenBSD, OS/2, NT4, NetBSD MIPS and Gentoo MIPS.

Trying to port exult (emulator for Ultima RPG from 1992) to PalmOS, and possibly at some point, Symbian S60.

Which leads on to a minor (offline) RPG obsession from Planescape:Torment, to Ultima to Oblivion.

I also like Radio 4 comedy, classical music, blues and opera (plus rock, pop etc). I know enough about Dr. Who to be worrying, but not enough to put me in the nerd category.

The past also included programming OS/2 and the PCW in BASIC and Z80 assembly, owning most of the fighting fantasy books, and doing some PnP RPG with friends at school.

Fortunately I also like going out with friends, trying to be creative, baking and mountain bikes. I have also had more than one partner, although offers from nice ladies, and certain men are currently welcome ;).

Length? 8" 120MHz, 580W and 39KV on the HT leads.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 16:49, 2 replies)
I'd love a model m.
But they cost silly money these days.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 17:12, closed)
Well, they're not *that* expensive
When I bought a new Model M at the end of the 90s, it was 50 quid. The new Endura Pro was 70 quid or so.

It's not so much that they're expensive; it's that the horrid plastic keyboards are extremely cheap. Then again, what do you expect for rubber membrane keyboards? Buckling spring needs more manufacturing prowess.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 17:25, closed)

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