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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keyboard shortcutsI work with computers all day, with (amongst other things) Photoshop and InDesign being high on my list for typesetting and Cubase for audiobook production. As such I am committed to learning as many keyboard shortcuts as I can. I can resize and save for web in Photoshop in about 10 seconds...
I am also gradually trying to learn the special character shortcuts (getting there); for example ALT0169 is ©, ALT0150 is – and ALT0233 is é. Those are just a few of the ones I can do off the top of my head... For some reason I think this is a necessary skill.
It really pisses me off that Microsoft Office doesn't have some of the same shortcuts... Why can't CTRL-SHIFT-S be 'Save As... and CTRL-SHIFT-Z be 'Redo' like everyone else?! Aaaargh!
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 15:52, 3 replies)
My personal favourite isALT 0181 µ
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:24, closed)
ALT137 gives you ëIt is very useful when you have a friend called Chloë who is picky about her umlauts.
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 17:16, closed)
And moreAlt + 0216 gives you the diameter symbol. I like that one.
I'm switching to Star Office at the moment, after having the MS Office shortcuts burnt into my brain. So I keep numbering things when I try to Save As.
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 20:18, closed)
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