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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Ogwen69's post below about cat's eyes reminded meYou know when you're travelling along a motorway and sometimes you hit the rumble strip at the edge, resulting in a musical note coming off the tyres?
Well, I had an idea once to design rumble strips such that the ridges on them changed in frequency so they would play a tune as you drove over them. You could even have two strips, set apart the width of a car's track, so the right hand wheels would play the melody and the left hand ones a bass line. There would of course be issues attached to this: for example, there would be some slurring of notes between the front and back wheels; the tunes may not be to everyone's taste and it probably would result in increased suspension and tyre wear.
But it would be fun to try it. In a nerdy kind of way.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 12 Mar 2008, 9:24,
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there's also the questionof increased road deaths.
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If anyone was going to have done it...deputy-dog.com/2007/11/09/the-most-bizarre-musical-instrument-on-earth/
Class...
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re the slurring of notesYou could build cars so that rear tyres created a softer sound than front tyres, giving a simple 'reverb' effect.
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I put it to you sir....that you still have less spare time on your hands than these people.
www.oddmusic.com/index.php
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