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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Not very nerdy in the grand scheme of things but...I have 2 PC's, and 4 Monitors in my bedroom, run Fibre Optic Gigabit to my main PC, have a Cisco 7970 IP Phone on the wall, a PBX in the house, and two broadband connections.
Of course I do run an web hosting company, so it's not all bad news, and I carry two mobile phones (a e70 and a 6820, but with fold out qwerty keyboards because I hate txt spk).
Oh and I buy Lego Technic Models now I'm older and have more disposable income... I figure that I sold all my lego to buy my first PC, and it's time it paid me back...
Ok, and I've just remembered about the large quantity of Books that I hoard, all obsessivley ordered by Author, and size... and they take up all the space on my shelves apart from the DVD's...
Edit2: And I've remembered a nerdier moment... I mourned the loss of Douglas Adams more than the death of my own father!
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Alex Save a Tree, Eat a Beaver!, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 2:37,
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HahaI'm almost as bad. 2 broadband connections, 3 VPN devices to the office to 3 different locations.
2 Cisco IP phones hanging off the two active VPN devices, the office extension is ported on to one of the phones (yes so when I get called at work it rings at home) and a Cisco 7920 phone (wireless) hanging off an encrypted wireless on one of the VPN devices so when I get called at work I don't have to get up from the couch..
Bloody shame isn't it.
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Txt SpkIf you hate text speak so much why did you spell it "txt spk"?
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Text Speak...Because it is txt spk, Text Speak just doesn't sound right :)
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Alex Save a Tree, Eat a Beaver!, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 20:48,
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