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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OCD, or nerdery?I have the smallest details about my life planned out in my diary.
For instance:
- Monday: buy weed
pay rent
- Tuesday: clean toilet
- Wednesday: phone x about y
This may seem perfectly normal (or not), but if I don't do it then I'm in constant turmoil worrying about what I have to do in the future.
Is anyone else like this?
My worst one to date is: Friday - go out. As if I would forget.
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:12, 5 replies)
CheckI have a series of notebooks that allows me to keep track of everything I'm supposed to do on any given day. I get seriously worried if I can't access them. That's said, I have to for work as I'm usually scary busy. But when it comes to out of work, do I really need to tell myself "Saturday, 9-11am, wake up, eat breakfast". Like I might forget...
My 'to-do' lists control my life... :)
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:32, closed)
hmmmm...i see where you're coming from but mines like
monday-buy weed
tuesday-buy weed
wednesday-buy weed... and so on...
if i dont do wats on my list i start caring about real life!! scary stuff eh..
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:45, closed)
Yes!You _are_ my flatmate. Not only does she keep such detailed to do lists, you appear to have the exact same list of tasks.
She's always telling me I should do the same, but I'd just forget I'd written the list and still be kerfuddled :'(
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:45, closed)
maybestop buying so much weed?
(, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 1:02, closed)
^ ^that is what I was thinking. If you don't use so much weed, you might actually remember things and not have to write them down.
That being said, I am a list maker. I especially love to mark things off the list and get such a feeling of accomplishment. So, a list that would normally have 3 tasks on it, in my hands will break down each of those 3 tasks into 10 smaller tasks that are all part of completing the 3 tasks.
Thus, the simple task of cleaning the living room becomes:
*pick up any dishes
*take dishes to kitchen
*pick up toys
*take toys to kids' room
*empty trash
*put new trash bag in can
*straighten sofa cushions
*dust bookshelves
*dust TV
*vaccume living room
*straighten video tapes
*straighten DVDs
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flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Sat 8 Mar 2008, 2:43,
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