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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Let's see...I can think of a few more factors:
-the number of times in a week you figure out how to calculate something trivial, such as the number of gallons of coffee you drink based on the volume of your cup and the number of times per day you fill it, or the exact speed your car's engine has to be going to produce a perfect C based on that note being 256 Hz.
-how many times a week you use Google to settle an argument.
-how many systems/websites you log into per day.
-how many authors/musicians/filmmakers you follow so obsessively that you own a copy of everything they've ever released. (That's gotta be worth a few right there. *cough*pinkfloyd*cough*)
-how many songs you can think of that have the same meter as "Amazing Grace". (You can sing the words to that song to the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme, "House of the Rising Sun" and "Stairway to Heaven", to name three.)
-the number of potential sex partners you've scared off by revealing your enthusiasm for some arcane interest.
That should be a good start...
EDIT: I think I've upgraded my desktop machine six or eight times, if you want to include things like adding RAM or installing a faster CD burner. And one of the other two machines was a laptop that I bought for work at a company that they then bought back from me when I left, so I guess that one doesn't really count...
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 10 Mar 2008, 17:01,
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