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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Music,I am a music geek, uber nerd, ask me nearly every music question, about allsorts of genres and I'll know the answer....
nerdy music anecdotes
1)I have my albums ordered in the shelves alphabetically and chronoligically as well, with best of's and live albums included in the order they were released.
I have also reorganised the collection into genre as well, so dance, rock, folk etc are all easily accesible.
I was going to subcategorise the collection with solo albums by members who'd been in bands so you'd have all the Beatles recorded work chronologically followed by George harrisons solo back catalogue, John Lennons back catalogue, Paull McCartneys Back catalogue, and then i realised everyone would know I had a Ringo album.
2) High fidelity is my favourite film & book.
3) When I was younger I invented a pretend band, created all the album covers, all the songs, and then 'remastered and repackaged' them, which meant i got to write sleeve notes as well.
I also invented several solo spin off projects from the fictitious band, no-one ever saw any of this, and I think some still exists on my hard drive and in my PC.
4) I have written a critical music column for over 14 years, have insulted many famous musicians, but on one occasion I put together a review based on the two albums the Beatles might have released had they not split in 1970, with songs all taken from relevant beatles albums in the early 70's. And then compiled the albums and put them on CD with mocked up artwork (for the record they were Tittenhurst Park (1971) & Everest (1972).
5) In one of my columns I invented a cult live band from the 1970's who recorded a limited one off album in 1974, and then reviewed it pretending it was a lost classic... but best of all after this piece ran I had people emailing me saying they'd seen the band in question, or heard bootleg copies of the album.
6) I spend hours and hours hunting down obscure and deleted vinyl on ebay and online, then find the albums have been remastered and reissued.
7) I once scored over 113 million on the music quiz on our late lamented locals quiz machine, and this was a proper hard machine.
I am a music geek and I'm proud of it....
(I'll not mention the Dr Who collection, or the F1 room in my house........)
Length about 74 minutes on CD allegedly to include an entire recording of Beethovens 9th Symphony because it was Sony boss Noria Ogha's favourite track... a fact which has remains unproven to this day.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 21:35, 2 replies)
Ok, I'll take the challengeWhich lyric writer invented the word 'sanhedralite'? (Please answer without using google...)
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:17, closed)
I know I know!!!!!Please sir, can I answer that one. I'll even given you the track name, the album it's on.
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 22:18, closed)
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