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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flash nerdNot the Macromedia stuff: I mean that my nerdhood comes in flashes, bursts of nerdiness punctuating the normality.
- at age 10, having way too much fun reading about cosmology: galaxies, red shift, black holes, the Big Bang, and all the Big stuff that makes Religion look like a pale imitation of ancent ritual.
- on ZX Spectrum, my finest hour was a program to create and manage system fonts, including all the POKES needed to make them work. On BBC Micro I wrote a "sequencer" package for music, like UMI but much more BASIC. (First song: "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)"
- work stuff in Storage support: SCSI, Fibre Channel, Clustering, RAID, drivers, iSCSI.
- bits and pieces, now and then: batch programming, Python, PHP, VB (especially Excel macros), Mathematica, Linux shell scripts...
Now, however, after years of Windows, badly-designed hardware, buggy software, virtual everything, and FUCKING customers... I've given up, and have started university to study Structural Engineering. It was time to get real, and it doesn't get more real than a lump of structural steel. 8-)
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bnt what, me worry?, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 0:58,
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