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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At this very moment...I have been sat in fount of my computer for thirty hours without sleep, coding.
It is for Uni deadlines though, so not that geeky - damn Computer Scie...... Oh, Hold on.
(, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 15:16, 5 replies)
a proper geekwould have scheduled their time better and finished the work well before the deadlines.
I handed my MA thesis in three months early and still got a first class grade.
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if you've been working for 30 hoursand are aiming for a deadline then you are definitely not one of my students.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 15:21,
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Been there... done that, got the same piece of paper. The most depressing part is when you look back on your dissertation in two years' time and realise what an absolute load of twaddle it is. For example, the coding I did for my employer yesterday afternoon (employer - an anagram of popular flight operator BMI, and I was at home in my boxers eating biscuits and smoking rollups, I might add) was twice as complex than the crap I wrote back then.
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In fact...The worst thing about it is that in doing this, I'm boosting the grades of eight other morons with non-existent work ethic. Myself and four others have been doing the work of twelve for the last six months, and the sickening thing is that they get a grade based on our work, with it being a group project.
Oh well, this time time tomorrow I'll be paralytically drunk (I haven't been out in weeks, cos I've been working on this), and rid of the cretins forever. Last deadline is in two hours, then time for bed...
(, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 16:28, closed)
Ah, group projectsWhen I assign group work the group has to make a joint decision on how to allocate the weighting of the marks amongst each other. If they've all done the work they have an equal share of the marks, otherwise they specify how much each person has contributed as a percentage and I divide the marks in that manner.
Tell your lecturer the others haven't done any work. I'll bet he/she is used to hearing that. Group projects are useful because a) teamwork is an essential part of working in industry and - more importantly - b) they are easier for us to mark. You shouldn't suffer because of a bunch of other shirkers though.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 9:19,
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