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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nerd when young, geek in waiting, but women got in the wayi was a proper nerd when younger in the late 80's, i started at the ZX Spectrum, and used to own the whole back catalogue of 'your sinclair' and other fewer ones who's names pass me by, copied the code they published, forgot to save it to tape, left the speccy on all night, replaced it again after it overheated, things were looking up, i was learning basic, but paperboy, emlyn hughes football, and many others kept distracting me
got Amiga's (started to go more gamer) but used dabble a lot with samplers, composed a Red Dwarf clone in Octamed and Tracker, modelled some basic shapes to music using the free modelling apps from Amiga Format, and started to produce PD (Public Domain if you're too young, the snail mail precursor to P2P, but usually community produced show reel stuff) quality stuff, while trading some awesome PD videos and animations from germany and sweden and so on
problem is it went south on nerds town, i got a Playstation, found underage boozing, school discos, mates clubbing together for cheap dutch miniture multipack beers (you know those little green mini bottle), anything alcoholic, ciggies, college, beer, girls, work, in that order with the odd PS2 dalliance
This lasted for about 7 years, forgot everything, then, when down in a factory dump going no where, started reading something about TCP/IP, now 8 years after that date, Install and poke Cisco and MS Exchange kit for various ISPs, emea and others etc after a stint as a shirt and tie db consul'devilschild'tant, i preferred branded polo shirt WAN techie type stuff, not boring as buggery data design, db install, sql, crm, stuff, and am usually now traipsing through terminals, bombing around in the van getting paid well for something i know an army of geeks online can do, as their exploit blogs and so on testify too, and who absolutley wipe the floor with me on CoD4 on PS3 as i play it for about 3 hours aweek when the missus is at work on a saturday
but ive learned the social skills to walk into a multinational, tell the CIO or Director, CEO etc what they need, where they've ballsed up
i think that curious streak broke through again after a teenage break from the norm...nerd, this time i find routing tables more interesting than customers/strangers/public, and would rather be with our mixed group hiring a villa or whatever, but know what pays the bills
Cheers
Mmm...
100 REM type your name
110 INPUT n$
120 PRINT "Hello ";n$;"!"
130 GO TO 110
Or
Dim Response
Response = InputBox("Enter Name:", "arse")
MsgBox "Greetings " & Response & "!"
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