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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I find Babelfish amusing.One of the things I like to do periodically is take a block of text and run it through Babelfish to go from English to French to German and back to English, just to see the accumulated errors. It ends up reading like dadaist poetry.
Example:
Of the origin of the Hound of the Baskervilles there have been many statements, yet as I come in a direct line from Hugo Baskerville, and as I had the story from my father, who also had it from his, I have set it down with all belief that it occurred even as is here set forth. And I would have you believe, my sons, that the same Justice which punishes sin may also most graciously forgive it, and that no ban is so heavy but that by prayer and repentance it may be removed. Learn then from this story not to fear the fruits of the past, but rather to be circumspect in the future, that those foul passions whereby our family has suffered so grievously may not again be loosed to our undoing.
From origin of the dog many reports gave to the hunt Baskervilles, although, because I come into a direct line of Hugo Baskerville, and touring buses has I the history of my father had, who likewise had it of its, I it put down with the whole faith, which she even produced herself, while one determines here. And I will you let believe, my threads that the same judge, who punished likewise love-who-tests the sin it to forgive can, is not so heavy and the fact that prohibition, but only by request and can repent it is taken away. Learn it then from this history fruits past not to fear, but rather prudently to be in the future that these stinking passions, by which our family suffered so seriously not yet at our disassembly to be solved to be able.
I find this more amusing than I should.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 11 Mar 2008, 13:34,
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Touring buses?Also, is it just me or are we all waiting avidly for the pictures of his new shed.
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girlinthehole, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 14:00,
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Well then......here ya go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLjS3gzHetA
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 11 Mar 2008, 14:12,
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lost in translationI once made a birthday cake for a Japanese mate.
I decided however to decorate said cake with a piped greeting in Japanese and turned to the internet for assistance.
I'm assured that the online Japanese translator made a good show of some of the message. 'Made in China' and 'Warning: this product may contain dog' came out as intended. The greeting itself however was rendered: 'May your birthday be honoured to so auspicious a degree that even the wind itself is found to age in sympathy' - a considerable improvement on the quotidian English of 'Happy Birthday you old fart.'
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Lost in translation, reduxIn 1991, workers at a San Jose, California library hung a banner to greet a group of visiting Filipinos. The banner was supposed to read, "You are welcome" in the language of Tagalog. Instead, it said, "You are circumcised."
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 11 Mar 2008, 19:30,
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