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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Nerdy? moi?Right now ... I can count 17 machines on my howm network. This year I lost one. No really lost one. It was still up on the 'net but buried too deep under a pile of crap to actually be found. It was over 2 months before I eventually found it.
my central heating is run by a set of Perl scrips hooked into a variety of temperature sensors around the house, as a result, I often nearly freeze in winter and overcook in summer.
I made an MP3 player for the car long before you could get MP3 players for cars. Building the 12V psu for the PC was the hard part. The custom LCD and pushbutton panel ran from a handbuilt PCB and embedded controller that took many hours of assembler to program.
I first leartn to program on a Z80, in binary. No, not assembler, raw bytcode. Makes it more fun.
Do I qualify yet?
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 21:33, 2 replies)
why did you need 17 computers.I can understand several to do stuff while you're using your main one but seventeen?
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Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 21:53,
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That's a lot of leccy you're consuming then.I've got one, wife has her laptop, kids have theirs (with internet) kids have a laptop each in their rooms (no internet, they are small), there's a couple downstairs waiting to be converted into MAME stations. Oh wait and I have another palmtop too (just in case).
I won't go into what I use for a UPS, you will just shake your heads.
(, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 3:35, closed)
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