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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Right...* My motorbike is called Serenity, due to the ongoing problems I have with the primary buffer panel and compression coil.
* I have a tattoo of the power symbol on my right shoulder. It's a reference to the cover of a single released by Garbage.
* I find userfriendly.org extremely funny.
* I use "shiny" in regular conversation.
* I have London Underground socks. Socks, with the tube map on. There are at least 5 mistakes on them.
*...but I don't use them for route planning purposes, as I can picture the map pretty much in my head.
* This is useful for when I need to plan a route for a tube challenge, which involves visiting all the stations in a given target (e.g. zone 1, all the stations on the DLR) in as quick a time as possible.
* I know nearly every word to nearly every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (barring season six, which was crap).
* I have purchased four copies of Serenity. The region 2 DVD which I passed onto my girlfriend, the region 1 version with a bonus disc, the UMD release for watching on the move, and another region 2 copy to loan people.
I know the commentary for it word for word, let alone the main attraction.
* I swear in Chinese at work (working in a call centre this has it's advantages).
* I have a poster of Arnos Grove underground station on my wall above my monitor.
* I take pride in wearing my Green Lantern ring.
* I enjoy making connections between movies and TV shows based up on the actors within (e.g. Ellen Page and Michael Cera were in Juno. Ellen Page was also Shadowcat in X3 and copped off with a character played by Shawn Ashmore, whose twin brother was in the same episode of Veronica Mars as Michael Cera).
* The wallpaper in the PDA I got through work is as close as I can get to the cortex from Firefly.
I'll probably post more when I remember more.
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PfftNo Giles, no snark, Spike becoming more and more centre stage, a big bad that were just annoying more than scary (having said that Adam Busch is charming in real life) and Dawn being horrible and whiny.
Mind you, OMWF and Tabula Rasa are two of my top ten episodes, so I'll concede that it had its moments.
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Arnos Grove poster...Grauniad's "Great Modern Buildings" series that they gave away free a couple of months ago? I've got the same one.
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Shiny!...and my main (L70) character in WoW is called Fireflier - mainly because she looks, just a little bit, like Kaylee!
Incidentally, there's an NPC gnome called Kaylee Smallfry
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Fireflier La la la la, not listening on, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 7:54,
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Jimbo!How did I miss that you'd posted? And you forgot that you know more obscure band details than anyone else I know :)
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Maladicta, Wed 12 Mar 2008, 18:04,
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