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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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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