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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Professional Beach BumWhile this isn't of the geeky, computery nerdiness which is usually expected of a B3ta post, I still consider myself a nerd.
I am a coastal engineer and so my work revolves around designing and building beaches. I like to think of myself as a modern day slartibartfast (if you know this then you are a geek). Of course I can't claim the fjords of Norway as my own but a couple of coastlines on the South Coast have benefited from me tinkering with my groynes while watching a dredger rainbow in shingle and sand.
This said I like my job and hope to pursue it, however my wife does get a miffed when I disappear off when on holiday for a few hours and return having filled up the memory card with examples of rock fish tail groynes, off shore breakwaters and the like. Luckily she is a geographer and so appreciates the management structures which I present in a powerpoint presentation, on the cold winter nights.
So off to the beach now for some fun/work. And my word it's a lot of fun at the moment, lost the beach at Selsey yesterday and I'm damned if I can find it again.
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Reiss BeachIs my favourite place in the world :D
www.caithness.org/atoz/reiss/reissbeach/a7.jpg
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whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 13:02,
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I try and avoid taking too many photos of that sort of stuffbut being a coastal and rivers engineer, and a surfer to boot means that I have to try hard.
mind you, my other half is a structural engineer, and I have to stop her staring at buildings and bridges before people start to notice....
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 13:24,
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