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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Inspired by CHCB's mention of mathematicians...There was a mathematician, a physicist and an engineer (all male!). They were placed at one end of a corridor, with a naked woman at the other end. They were given instructions to advance half the distance towards the woman, then half the distance again, and so on.
The mathematician quickly worked out that this would be an asymptotic process, and even after an infinite number of attempts he would never reach the woman, so he declined to participate.
The physicist accepted the mathematician's calculations, but attempted to verify it by means of experiment. After he had taken a few measurements, he plotted them on a graph, found it fitted the theory, announced the same conclusion as the mathematician and gave up.
The engineer looked at the previous two's efforts and deduced that indeed he would never reach the woman, but he would get close enough for all practical purposes!
And yes, I'm a physicist... :-(
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 11:41,
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WellA couple of Geeks were discussing whether it was better having a wife or a mistress. They concluded that the answer was having both.
This means you can tell the wife that you are with the mistress, the mistress that you are with the wife and then spend more time in the lab.
This is frighteningly close to the way I think.....
Cheers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 11:48,
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LEglessI find that disturbing. I would tell the mistress I was in the lab when I was with the wife and the wife I was in the lab when I was with the mistress. Or even better knowing my missus...I'd invite the mistress to join in.
K2K6: Classic :D
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But...
Do you have any idea how hard it is to get the time to do the things I have to do? You should see my project list.......
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 11:55,
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You make a good pointBUt at my age I'd rather get the leg over.
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the humanistRan down the corridor and 69'd her until she came like a tornado.
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