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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It's not being nerdy, it's organizational skillsOr OCD.
During my degree, I catalogued each set of lecture notes (after having rewritten them and annotated them) as to whether they were "notes", "handouts", tutorials", "supplementary information", "exam related information", "practice exam questions" or "other". Christ knows what was in "other".
I then sold the right to photocopy my notes for ten pence per lecture to the rest of my class.
Now as a grown up, I read Nature and Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences for fun. And I own a $200 label maker. I bar code things for entertainment...
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