Think I'm just too white and nerdy...
I'm a professional engineer. Working with rather large hydraulic robots. (which gives me something of a headstart in the nerdishness stakes...)

I scored 99 / 100 in a Nerd test

My bedroom resembles a lab. In fact it's better equipped than the Uni I went to; I sleep next to a benchtop dual-voltage power supply, signal generators, multimeters, oscilloscopes, all sorts. As well as a stack of boards that I always think will come in useful but never do (who still uses RS232 serial? And who of them could do with a 6-way splitter?!)

I build VR sets for fun. And am currently building up a decent AR set.

I can quote the 3 "real" Star Wars. Word For Word. Including the Family Guy episode...

I've got a laser that can burn holes in floppy disks and does a good job of etching patterns into my PC case. And have fitted it to a Shark. I figure every creature deserves a warm meal...

I've got a pair of ForceFX lightsabers. And am considering gutting them and fitting Wiimotes.

I wrote off at 14 and corrected the BBC's Robot Wars magazine and received an apology for the mistake(!)

I occasionally wear a home made, fully x86-compatible, Linux/XP dual-booting wearable PC to work.

I've written innumerable scripts to allow the use of Wiimotes in computer games. And the use of Daleks with Wiimotes :P

I've played Warhammer 40k twice in my life. And won both times.

I've got 3 PDA phones. And still find myself in situations where I could do with more.

I've got designs laid out for a rather nicely fitting, properly proportioned, fully heads-up-display-enabled Half Life style HEV suit

I got engaged on the same day that Half Life 2 was released. 13 hours of playing that game (most of which was loading times...) later, we finally settled down to all things post-question-popping.

At uni I set about designing a hydraulic exoskeleton to answer a coursework on "things to help the elderly" but eventually ran out of time and had to knock up a Stirling Engine powered pan stirrer. Thoroughly inefficient and probably useless, but hey- I passed.

I've been told that I looked most at home when I was in full "Mad Scientist" garb.

Furthermore: I wear rather impressive [polarised, photochromatic, frameless] glasses, built my own computer, use a Labcoat as a dressing gown around the house and am shortly to begin building my own car. Which based on the above would make KITT look dated.
Oh, and I've just about perfected an Evil Genius Laugh. The kind that reverberates around a large stone-walled hall in my underground lair*.

*Actual underground lair's existance may not be as described.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 21:54, 6 replies)

lots of people still use RS232
Modems, Unix box logon, etc.. It's reliable and very secure :)
(syllopsium, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 22:49, closed)

Well yeah...
...we use it at all the time at work (and RS422, RS485 and a whole host of other standards).

I was meaning more "at home" use; no common PC peripherals have a serial port nowadays (at least none I can think of off the top of my head). Almost certainly none of them would need a 6-way splitter.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 23:15, closed)

I use RS232 at home, and was cheesed when I found the PCI serial/parallel port card I bought for this PC doesn't have Vista 64 drivers.
I've been designing and building computers with various 1980s processors. Since they don't have their own monitors (*wants a VT100 or similar*), a serial port was pretty much a necessity. As was a parallel port for my EPROM programmer.
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 4:01, closed)

Lasers
and Sharks. Sounds like a new thread, "Arming Animals".
This sounds familiar, has it been done already?
( monkeyboyalpha jumping on the bandwagon since, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 10:47, closed)

!
Octopus + Knives
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 11:43, closed)

sharks with fricken laser beams?
i think scott evil beat you to it.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:49, closed)