What's the geekiest thing you've ever done?
Here are some of my highlights--compiling an entire set of *Unknown Worlds*, the legendary pulp magazine, when I was younger, and you could still buy old pulps. Compiling a complete set of *Galaxy* magazine. Getting a baseball, once signed by Ruth and Gehrig, and adding DiMaggio's, Mantle's, Maris', Reggie's, and Mattingly's signatures to it. Attempting--and not quite succeeding--in compiling a full set of Blue Note jazz albums from the 50s and 60s. Having Cary Grant, Kate Hepburn, and Howard Hawks autograph an original poster of *Bringing Up Baby*. Spending months in a study, examining *every* interleague baseball trade from 1901 to 2010 and seeing which player got better and which declined, in order to find out if you could tell which league was stronger than the other over that time. (Actually, you could.) Writing a 450,000(!) word X-Men fan novel. And, currently, writing an Ellery Queen novel--perhaps the quintessence of geekdom, considering that Ellery is *not* particularly a cult favorite these days. OK--that's how I've wasted my life. Can anyone match all that?
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It's a hefty thing and does the job well.
It would probably make a pretty good weapon in hand-to-hand combat.
http://www.decadecounter.com/vta/articleview.php?item=341
Here in the twenty first century a decade counter is usually something too small to see with the naked eye. Or pants.
As I look back on my life and into the future things get even stranger.
5,000 cans...wow. I'm in awe, and very envious...
Highlights: Never had a date, much less a relationship, in my 58 years on this planet. I was a serious comic-book geek for thirty years. Actually was manager of a sci-fi/comics shop for five years. Was on the fringes of 1970s Trek fandom. Involved for nearly thirty years in the uber-geekdom of High End audio as both hobbyist and journalist/reviewer. Animation freak for 50-years plus.
And most recently I was assimilated into the herd of bronydom - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fandom - a couple of years ago.
Proud eccentric Asperger geek here! 
...I should have mentioned, I ran a used comic/paperback store for a few years...
obsessive and phenomenally picky Blue Note collectors. I just buy my favorite reissues. Less hassle and worry that way.
...get down into the down 'n dirty of Riverside, Impulse, Verve--with their lousy sound quality--now that gets challenging...:-/...it's a bit like looking for the old classic SF/Fantasy titles from the specialist publishers--Shasta, Gnome Press, and Arkham House...
that shipped books all over the world, I only knew one guy with a COMPLETE (and I mean down to the last book) set of Arkhams, including a clean "The Outsider and Others" He also had all the Carcosas. 
One of my buds is into MONO jazz, down which road madness lies. His collection is amazing. I discovered a lot of great jazz on Pablo is both cheap and relatively easy to find. I have a few Riversides, mostly Bill Evans, my fave jazz pianist and some Ella on Verve. LOVE Oliver Nelson's Blues and the Abstract Truth and Alice Coltrane's LPs on Impulse. My pals have forgotten more about jazz than I will ever know.
...he even had some of the original Doc Savages and Shadows! Alas, they've disintegrated, as pulps are wont to do...
...but I still have to this day the legendary May, 1942, *Astounding*... ... And yes--*Blues and the Abstract Truth* is one of the very greatest jazz albums. Like *Kind of Blue*, I have every note memorized...
I worked out of my home in Dallas Texas. As sole employee I did everything myself. When I got too sick to continue I had worked for over 400 clients, many of them small businesses. After the first year I stopped advertising- no need to continue, as I got all my work from direct referrals. Even after moving from Texas to Indiana I kept my Dallas phone number so they could continue to contact me. Some of them still do after 4 years.
Become a career sound recordist in the television industry
Otherwise I'd be
...well done!...
Installed TAILS (anonymity Linux distro) on an old netbook AND posted a question to the forums.
Went to a campus seminar on cyber-security and Internet privacy.
Made a (buggy and primitive) HyperCard stack on a vintage Mac from tutorials in a book.
Wrote a rudimentary AppleScript, also from tutorials in a book (and on the same computer).
I write my email address in emails with spaces in between so that spammers can't harvest them.
Made Lego sculptures (I guess you can call them that?) of the U.S. flag and a "Scarlet Letter" (it was actually just a red "A" on a black background). But at 7 I had at least heard of the book.
Learned to play the Tetris theme ("Korobeniki," or "Peddlers"
on piano.
Some professor called me a geek in class because I wear glasses and was taking notes on my laptop. It's a boring 3-hour English class where the prof usually just talks shit on and on about nothing and doesn't actually get to discussing the readings until a half hour is left. There seems to be some sort of hostile division between "book people" and "computer people" (either that or this professor is just awful, because I'm both), which may have caused me to get "called out." (I never speak up in class either, although I always do my work.) This picking-on has gone on all throughout the semester and I can't wait for it to be over. It hurt, not only because it was meant pejoratively but because I know it's true, and the "geek" thing has always been a sore spot due to being made fun of throughout primary and secondary school.
Also, I'm female, and there seems to be a general stigma in our society against, I don't know, female intelligence in general, or being not 100% "glamorous" and also intelligent. (In other words, you can only be good at math if you look like Danica McKellar.) I cried that night because I wanted so desperately to be pretty and dumb so that people wouldn't make fun of me anymore. Then I remembered that I actually like doing things like the above and now I just wish that I looked more Christie Brinkley so that I can keep being a geek but secretly. I just can't believe this kind of bullying/teasing shit goes on at the college level. Prof. seems to be nicer to the cute cheerleader-types who act like they've never even seen a book in their lives, then picks on me because I'm not one of them. It doesn't make sense and I can't believe this immature playground stuff goes on at university.
'cause he's a dumb shit. 
From another country, one of the former communist bloc places in Eastern Europe. Slovenia or Slovakia, Hassenpfeffer Incorporated. Tends to favor the cheerleader types because they seem more the "American ideal" she wants to emulate. Sad that the "American ideal" being promoted around the world is that of a complete blithering idiot.
I dunno, maybe the "smart, geeky women" seem too reminiscent of Sputnik engineers and are to be distrusted at all costs?
BTW, I did another geeky thing that nobody my age seems to want to do because it isn't cool:
Some people just have to put down others to make themselves appear more powerful or popular or sparkly or whatever...it's mostly about power though.
Glad you voted.
