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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Throwing my hat into the ring...- I walked up the aisle to a spanish guitar version of the Throne Room Theme, and back down to the Cantina tune.
- I have two dogs called Chewie and Leia. To be fair, Chewie was so named because he looked so much like the said Wookie. Then when we got a little black female dog, it was too fitting not to use. But her full name is Laika Kudryavka.
- I find the joke about the Biologist, Physicist & Mathematician on a train looking at a sheep funny, and knew it before it appeared in Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.
- I collect Tube maps from around the world and their variants. Nothing beats the London map for its beauty and effectiveness. I get a wide-on from just looking at New Johnson font in use, which brings me to...
- I'm a fontaholic and can easily recognise which company is writing to me by the font. I think the death penalty should be brought back for usage of Comic Sans and all first year infant children instructed in the usage of small caps.
- I always use who and whom correctly, even in speech.
- I always do things like showering and washing up in the same order, cos it's the most efficient way I've found to do it. My husband teases me by saying he fancies re-ordering the cupboards for a bit of variety, which makes me need a lie down.
- I get frustrated trying to do simple things in DOS, and then realise I'm using UNIX commands.
- My ultimate holiday would be to go and stick my arm in the cracks in the concrete sarcophagus at Chernobyl. I can explain what wrong there too. Also want the grand tour of CERN.
- I did the "Is your brain male or female?" quiz by Simon Baron-Cohen, and found that whilst I was averagely female (empathetic), I was more male (systemising) than most men and got a score unheard of for most women.
- Plus the usual stuff, H2G2 obsessed, watch every physics documentary going, miss my Amiga, C64 and Spectrum so much it hurts, got married on the MUD, atheist, colour-grapheme synaesthete, disparaging about Stephen Hawking, and so on...
(, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 21:12, 2 replies)
CERNTip for you - CERN is a publically funded facility; if you email their press or communications office very nicely they will arrange a tour for you - a full blown one into the main ATLAS experiment underground and around some of the facilities.
It is amazing I was there a few weeks ago; a very nice American researcher showed us around for about 2 hrs.. bonus is you can take piccies :-)
(, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 22:17, closed)
Really!!!!????Fucking awesome, I'm there.
(, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 17:53, closed)
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