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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It's not really a kid's book.I can't really imagine any kids having the stamina to read the whole thing. It's immense and wordy, just the way I like my books.
One good reason to read it: so you can be slightly more informed about what the book is actually about, when you make outlandish statements designed to provoke people into arguments.
The character is called *Bilbo* Baggins, and as a linguist, Tolkien most probably chose this name to indicate the character's jovial nature and rural background, in the same way that the evil baddie is called Sauron, because this sounds like something horned and angry.
They don't just throw these things together, you know.
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St3cks, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 10:29,
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