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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nerd top trumpsFour days of posting and reading posts confirms that I am in the upper echelons of geekdom. However, the scale is exponential and above me are my friends.
My flatmate is a mathematician. He reads (and writes) complicated textbooks for fun. Other young men stash porn under the bed; his is raised off the ground by piles of hastily scribbled equations.
A few of us tried to play pool once but it devolved into an argument over elastic versus inelastic materials (pool balls versus everything) and someone else swiped the table.
Once, when a crowd of us went out for the evening, I watched as one by one the other mathematicians in our company immediately adopted a game whereby the items they ordered from the menu had to be prime numbers.
Length? Dinner seemed to go on forever.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 11:00,
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The menu.I bet totting the bill up between you all was a doddle.
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girlinthehole, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 11:04,
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^Hmmm, you'd think so, but dividing by nine was not their strong point. Apparently that's "trivial" and they are used to dealing with abstractions, imaginary numbers and complicated symbols.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 11:12,
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its truetrivial stuff often evades me too. i have a degree in maths, but to counter the trivialality i play darts. This gives me a real good proper usable understanding of the number bonds in the real number set.
i also know that darts + 6 pints = greatness, whereas the truism then occurs that darts + 7 pints or more = rubbishness.
i knew i my mate was a bigger geek than me when i announced on my 32nd birthday i was actually 2 to the power 5. he replied "well i am 20 in hexadecimal". I was humbled.
I like the prime number game though - i am glad my maths mates don't live nearby. I may be divorced at that point!!
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bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Mon 10 Mar 2008, 11:28,
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I used trigonometry to win a game of pool once...(
jim_bob can herd cats., Mon 10 Mar 2008, 12:15,
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