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 don't consider myself a nerd but...... it would appear that knowing what TNG and TOS stand for, taking my lecture notes in different colours, having a periodic table and graphing caluclator within 15 seconds reach made me score 91% on an nerd test.
I will admit to being a biology and statistics geek though. If you are watching a cosmetics advert that claims 85% of testers agreed, you will probably hear me screaming "but 100 people is hardly a decent sample size. And how did they pick the participants?".
I also cry whenever reading the science news in the Daily Fail. But then again, anyone with at least one brain cell would cry at the quality of their science reporting.
My love of The Legend of Zelda games is bordering dangerous. I want the triforce tattooed onto my left hand, and would kill for a Zelda themed wedding.
I too am single. But I'm not deathly pale. Because I'm Asian, not because of outdoor activities.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 19:15, 2 replies)
not to mention...it probably wasn't a random sample or a cross-section of the population.
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flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 4:40,
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"I also cry whenever reading the science news in the Daily Fail."Is it required that you read it for your job? If not, why do it? I've taken to avoiding the Metro and picking up the MEN instead, even if it means I have to walk some distance and miss out on some national stories (I can always see them online), just because it makes me so angry! Not least because I cannot edit the pages, or I can but my changes don't propagate to other copies, so I am helpless against the tide of errors.
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