OCD/Geek . . .
I own every Harry Potter book (and the special editions) and DVD. I waited in line for each book on the day of release (I fit right in with the littlies in capes - we're the same height!)
I have most of the first Star Trek Series novels (books, not the movies!!!) and the complete Red Dwarf, Blackadder and League of Gentlemen on DVD.

I alpabetise my CDs
I arrange my wardrobe by colour and clothing type
I used to tape TV movie themes when I was younger (Hi Davros' Grandad!) - now I get mp3s of the same.
When I'm shopping, I arrange items as I would like them in bags (Legless can testify to this) - fruit with fruit, frozen items together, bread by itself (squished bread is a no-no)
I have a whiteboard on the fridge for shopping lists, a list of things to do on Joe's corkboard in the study, and I carry with me with my own little list of "things to do"
My email signature is a animation of a surgeon chucking things out of a body on an operating table, with "gnwthe seauton" at the bottom - ancient Greek for "know thyself." It used to be te nosce ipsum (my old sig) - Latin for the same.
I spent inordinate hours throughout high school organising a system of notes for studying/exams (and yes, my Harry Potter personality is Hermione before anyone asks)
My Star Wars personality is Yoda (Yay for short people!!!!!!!!!)
One of my favourite games at recesses in primary school was Doctor Who role-playing - I had an ID card and everything (and I was about 9)
My part-time work whilst at Uni was a teacher and at a bookstore (Lots of books - fringe benefits as far as I was concerned)
I started reading in kindergarten


I have a pager, Blackberry and paper diary to take to work.

I am marrying Legless - ubergeek :)

OCD or Geek of the Week? - you decide :)
( Mrs Legless . . . belongs to, well, you know . . . :), Mon 10 Mar 2008, 8:56, 12 replies)

OCD or Geek?
Neither. This is perfectly reasonable behaviour in my opinion. Although I am beginning to suspect that there are a number of lady b3tans who are in fact clones....
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 9:26, closed)

You have neither
All are perfectly normal.

As for this bit "When I'm shopping, I arrange items as I would like them in bags (Legless can testify to this) - fruit with fruit, frozen items together, bread by itself (squished bread is a no-no)"

Are you taking the piss thinking that is geeky?
( diffy maybs, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 9:39, closed)

Sorry, but...
It's "gnothi heauton".
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 10:45, closed)

Actually.
They're both correct. Sort of. But Anna is closer. Hardly surprising seeing that she's Greek.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself

Anna's spelling is"greeklish". Greek, but substituting English characters for Greek symbols.

The actual phrase is ΓΝΩΘΙΣΕΑΥΤΟΝ or, modernised, is γνῶθι σεαυτόν which is then translated into English English which is where the various spellings come from.


Now how's that for Geeky? Arguing about Ancient Greek translations and spellings?

Would that make me a Greek Geek? Or a Geeky Greeky?



Cheers

Disclaimer: I don't speak a word of it myself. Filthy foreign language
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 11:16, closed)

Well, well, well...
I've never come across the sigma version... only the e-psilon-with-a-hard-breathing one.

*adds to mental pile of useless trivia*

Edited for spelling error...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 11:23, closed)

Oracle At Delphi
Is where the original inscription comes from. Allegedly.
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 11:25, closed)

I wouldn't know the translation
It's all Greek to me...
( jim_bob can herd cats., Mon 10 Mar 2008, 12:19, closed)

rhhmmm.....Kirios Yoda :o)
Na einai mazi sou... H Dinami....
rhhmmmmm.

filakia, Kiria Athpropos-choris-podia,
kai ston andra sou

xxx
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 12:39, closed)

^^^
*Searches for Liddell and Scott*
*Realises that it's at home*
*is mildly annoyed*
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 13:05, closed)

@ Enzyme ^^^
I'm afraid you might find difficulty translating that, as I've done it with *special* Yoda-grammar ;o)

I said (in Yoda's accent of course)
"May it be with you...The Force....
rhmmmmm...."

If you wanted to say it properly, i.e. "May The Force be with you", it would be
"H Dinami va einai mazi sou (s) / sas (pl)"

I also like to do the odd Greek Darth Vader impression, which involves breathing diagonally into a pint glass, preferably 1/7 full of real ale....

"Oi dynameis sou einai adinates, geronta" = "Your powers are weak, old man"

And I thought I didn't have a geeky bone in my body....

*slinks back to kitchen*
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 18:38, closed)

Chickenlady
when you say some of the femgeeks on here are clones, do you mean Martin Clones? (Wasn't he good in Doc Martin? No? Oh ...)

/coat
( writerblock ... embedding disabled by request on, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 20:16, closed)

No, not Martin Clones (and he was better in MBB)
I'm sure we're simply clones of each other...or perhaps we're aliens....certainly there are a disturbing number of very close similarities amongst many female b3tans - no real physical similarities, but ignore that and we are all the same...sort of...
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 22:08, closed)