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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AccessI would describe myself as only moderately nerdy: I loathe Star Trek Next Gen and Deep Space Nine. I did get quite into Championship Manager for a while until I decided I needed to get a life. I have friends (real ones) and have been in a number of long-term relationships (With girls!)
However, the spectre of Nerdyness does rear its bespectacled head from time to time (I am the son of an engineer after all). For example I was given a project at work once where I had to get details of all of the qualifications and work experience of my colleagues. I didn't need to do this but I built an Access databases to store it all in. Not a one tabler either a proper relational one with one-to-many relationships and everything. By the time I’d finished I new more sensitive and personal information stored about my workmates than MI5.
Yes, so I there you have it, I built my own database and the worst thing? I enjoyed it!
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 20:20, Reply)
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