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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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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