What's the geekiest thing you've ever done?

[DerekG]

Yeah, I've participated in Dungeons and Dragons sessions.

I've actually compared Monty Python skits as they appeared in "Flying Circus" to the recreations in the feature, "And Now For Something Completely Different."

But last month I crossed a threshold; a (d)evolution I will not elaborate on until I get at least 10 replies.

So what was it?

[swag]

1. You got all dolled up and participated in a Renaissance Fair.

[Hosnon]

2. Definitely done the D&D...

but the geekiest thing I've ever done was figuring out the basic rule of Geometry in the sand at the beach, a la Euclid.

Edit: Ooh ooh, got another one. Was behind bars (don't ask why) and attempted to calculate the volume of my cell using a paper cup and calculus.

[Wickerman]

3. I'm a statistician

Its a lifetime of geekdom.

[KurtNYC]

4. programmed a TRS 80 computer

no big deal but few were doing it at the time so it felt extra geeky

[TlalocW]

20. I don't know if it's the geekiest thing I ever did

But I programmed a TRS 80 computer as well - it's actually where I taught myself the basics of BASIC. I bought it in 6th grade from my best friend's dad for $200 (probably paid too much) with money I earned mowing lawns. I would write music programs on it translating the note from my trumpet music books (also a band nerd). My best one was, "La Bamba," where not only did it print the words to the current line it was playing, but the screen background color changed with each new line as well. Oooooooooh.

I can't believe that the chicks in my small Kansan farming community (population < 2000) didn't dig me. I think maybe they were intimidated that at the same time I had just taught myself to juggle and ride a unicycle.

I am now a computer programmer full time and an entertainer on the side - magic, balloon twisting, and yes, juggling. I'll still ride my unicycle every now and then.

There's my geek hat trick.

TlalocW

[Deja Q]

126. Isn't that question, nearly word for word, on a geek purity test?

:rofl:

[billyskank]

5. I learned machine code for fun

when I was a teenager.

[billyskank]

36. Nobody thinks this is geeky?

My god, what do I have to do around here! ;)

MOV R0,R1
.inloop
ADD R1,R1,R3
STR R1,!
SUBS R5,R4,R1 LSL #3
BNE inloop
MOV PC,R14

[AllegroRondo]

52. Thats not geeky, thats masochistic.

[tigereye]

65. my husband taught himself machine code, too

before he went back to school for his CS degree.

[WeRQ4U]

6. I'm an eagle scout.

That should tell you enough about my younger life.

[aden_nak]

7. You could just keep a running tab of my daily activities.

I participated in (and maybe helped found) an online Star Wars RPG.
I know what a RAMDAC does, and why your video card needs one.
I post almost daily on a video game web forum (World of Warcraft, if you must know).
The last time I put together a computer, I bought a Dremel to modify the inside of the case to accomidate a larger 3D card.
I build web pages with Notepad.
I authored a guide to a video game (Final Fantasy XI) that has, to my current knowledge, almost half a million downloads.
My first car had a Red Hat Linux bumper sticker on it.

[Hosnon]

12. World of Warcraft - Nice, is there a similar one for Starcraft? nt

[aden_nak]

15. I don't know that Starcraft still has an upkept following.

Maybe when Ghost comes out. . .

Ack, I just earned even more geek points!

[Jara sang]

8. I've been to the National Archives

Not the one on The Mall, but the big modern building where they keep the "not as important as the Bill of Rights" documents, to do research on declassified CIA documents. I also own a GPS.

[DerekG]

47. Scouring over CIA documents is too worthwhile to be geeky

Exploring the nature of the national security state is a far cry from, say, writing SW fan fiction.

[Jara sang]

60. Oh yeah?

The documents were pertaining to Project Stargate. The CIAs project dealing with 'remote viewing' or ESP. My buddy on the computer next to me was doing research on UFOs and Project Bluebook. If that ain't geek I sure don't know what the hell is. BTW, the Archives is a geeks dream come true. You have to go through a metal detector and every piece of paper that comes in or leaves has to be stamped so that people don't "plant" things. You are also escorted around the place outside of the main research room.

[DerekG]

80. Hell, if you got payed for that, you'd be my hero

The only thing separating you from Fox Mulder is a bloody paycheck.

[Richardo]

9. Star Trek Convention - 1973

One of the first.

Got the autographs of DeForest Kelley, David Gerrold (writer of "Trouble with Tribbles") and Matt Jeffries (designer of the Enterprise.) :woohoo:

[jpgray]

10. I read the Voluspa aloud in a poetry class once

I probably pronounced skidbladnir wrong. How sweet is that ship though? It's like the Jetsons car only for vikings. Hanna Barbera were such soulless thieves.

(and yeah I'm on a Norse mythology kick in my Lounge postings for some reason)

[nickinSTL]

123. That's geeky?

I do D&D/other RPG stuff, and that IS geeky.

And my micronational interest is probably geeky as well.

Never thought of my interest in Norse mythology as being geeky...

[Taverner]

11. Oh ok....I used to have the bumper sticker:

"My PID is Ignio Montoya. You Kill -9 my parent process. Prepare to VI"

[aden_nak]

19. You win!

[Strawman]

13. You bought a deck of Magic cards? n/t

[DS1]

14. Took a brand new Dell server running windows 2000

advanced server when it was still in Release Candidate mode to a lan party to run Quake2, only to impress.

And they were impressed

[aden_nak]

24. I acquired the EU release of Quake I in order to get it 5 days early.

Though that bit me in the butt, since I had to spend more time patching it on my 33.6 modem.

[DS1]

27. okay

I had -three- Voodoo 2 cards, one each for work and home, and a third I'd bring back and forth to the office every day so I could get Q2 running at 1024x

[aden_nak]

28. Your drive to SLI has defeated me!

[On the Road]

16. In Middle School, I Special-Ordered a Book on Astrophysics

"Worlds-Antiworlds" by Hannes Alfen.

[Jara sang]

23. In high school I did the same thing

But it was a catalog from the Carolina Biological supply company. I ordered ether, thinking it would be a great "high" Unfortunately it was the low grade ether and didn't do shit but kill butterflies.

[On the Road]

40. Good Thing You Didn't Kill Yourself

I tried several homemade highs and none of them worked. Nutmeg -- no. Robitussin -- made me sick as a dog and I had to visit the ER.

[Jara sang]

46. yeah, it was only like 15% ether

I doubt they would have been able to sell the really high grade stuff. That was pretty much it as far as experimentation though, I never got into "huffing" accelerants or anything like that. Although I did have friends that tried to smoke various things, datura seeds(jimsonweed) and also banana peels. go figure.

[On the Road]

48. I Had a Friend Who Sniffed Gasoline Once

he saw the sun blink off and on with a resounding boom on the hills behind him. I never joined him.

[Taverner]

53. If you want a legal high

Salvia Divorinium

Only way to go...but be careful. It makes LSD feel like a kiddie pool....

[On the Road]

57. Salvia Didn't Do It for Me

Don't know why.

[XemaSab]

17. Made a spreadsheet

With all the birds I haven't seen on one axis and all the states and provinces on another axis. Then I looked at the range maps of all the birds and decided which states they live in.

According to my calculations, a good trip to alaska could get me 40 species.

[DBoon]

18. My Geekiest Accomplishment: tapped my parent's phone in 4th grade

they were pissed!

Runner up: getting NetBSD working on a Mac IIsi with a B&W monitor. Even got X11 working!

[billyskank]

21. Come on DerekG! Spill the beans!!

[DerekG]

38. See post #37 and weep

n/t

[tsakshaug]

22. some of the above

I too am (was) an Eagle scout
Own a gps-go geocaching & have placed a cache

know unix
work as a tech guy, so run severs and computers for a living
was a science teacher in an earlier life (chem and physics)

BUT...
Played college basketball, still can beat the crap out of anyone that calls me a geek

[progmom]

25. I chased Jermaine Jackson's limo when I was 12

:blush:


...and I saw Manhattan Transfer live more than 25 times when I was in my early 20s. :blush: :blush: :blush:

[I Know How To Do it]

26. Learned how to operate a mouse with my feet. I could sit on

the couch with my mouse on the coffee table (Comp went through TV)and operate it with my feet. Next I yanked an old track ball mouse from a laptop and hooked it up to computer and embedded it in the arm of the couch.

Next project is to create a Touch Screen MP3 playing device that runs through stereo.

[youspeakmylanguage]

29. Flipped out to my fiance when I found a brand new IBM Model M keyboard...

...on eBay. I don't care what she thought, though - it was one of the greatest eBay finds I've ever made.

For those of you not geeky enough to know, the Model M as the heavy "clicky" keyboard made by IBM through the late 80s and all through the 90s. They were the best computer keyboards ever produced, bar none. Replicas are still made, but they're expensive and aren't quite the same quality.

I found an original, new in the box, for a fraction of what one of the replicas cost. BOOYAH!!!

[aden_nak]

33. You could stop a charging elephant with one of those keyboards.

[youspeakmylanguage]

35. Yep. I love it! (n/t)

[m_welby]

78. you would not believe the number of those things I tossed

in the trash over the years.

You are right, the best keyboards ever made. I still have a couple floating around, one my sone drew all over with marker (to make it look cooler) and a couple more in the ever expanding pile of keyboards at the office. As a long time IT guy, I can't seem to bring myself to toss them all.

[youspeakmylanguage]

89. So you're saying you've had bad luck with them?

Were the employees just abusive with them?

[m_welby]

97. not at all. they were indestructable

the users just wanted new keyboards with their new pc's. besides, they don't have a 'windows' key, and though every user needed to have it (almost) no one ever uses it.

you couldn't break an ibm keyboard if you tried. we had people pour soda in them and we could just rinse them off, let them dry out and plug them back in.

[youspeakmylanguage]

111. Of course - aesthetics over substance...

The drones always want the sleek black and silver generic keyboards, even if they turn out to be flimsy crap.

I think I'm going to ask to be buried with my Model M.

[Cathyclysmic]

30. 3rd grade, I told the teacher she forgot to assign homework

seriously...I'm a dork....it just sliped out:eyes:

[cosmik debris]

31. I got a BA in Latin Literature

I only did it to meet chicks!

[billyskank]

32. I got a BSc in physics. I only did that to meet chicks, too.

It didn't work. :D

[cosmik debris]

43. I met lotsa chicks, but they didn't want a guy with a degree in Latin

n/t

[XemaSab]

34. Latin as in Spanish

or Latin as in Latin???

[cosmik debris]

42. The language of Rome prior to the Fall.

n/t

[XemaSab]

44. That's pretty geeky.

Lingua Latina geeky est.

If it was the literature of Central and South America, I'd bet you'd have more chicks than you could handle.

But no.

Feminae Latinam non amant.

[cosmik debris]

50. Being a Latin Lover

is not all it's cracked up to be.

[myrna minx]

62. Damn-I think that is so cool but then I am a geek.

:hi:

[cosmik debris]

74. FINALLY

thirty years later I meet a chick who thinks it is cool!! Will you go to bed with me?

[myrna minx]

76. Veni, Vedi, Vici

;-)

[cosmik debris]

79. Yeah, I bet you say that to all the Latin Lovers

n/t

[myrna minx]

85. Actually, one of my geeky admissions is that I purchased

a "Latin on Tape" series because I was frustrated that I was unable to read and understand about 1/8th of the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Oh, and I also had a crush on Augustus Caesar when I was a kid. :silly:

[cosmik debris]

86. Myrna and Augustus

Sitting in a tree
K I S S I N G.

You must have been awfully young then!

[tigereye]

70. it would be funnier if your degree was actually in Latin

or was it? Are you talking Latin as in South America, or Rome?

[cosmik debris]

73. Rome

Catullus, Tibullus, Cicero, Caesar, Livy, Plautus, Ovid, Pliny, et al

[tigereye]

77. excellent!

I once considered studying Latin ( loved my hs Latin teacher) and Greek in college, but it was not to be. Ended up an English Lit. major.

[cosmik debris]

84. I guess it finally paid off

After 30 years of looking I find two women in one day who think that it is cool to spend 4 years reading ancient literature. But I bet you won't sleep with me either. 4 years down the drain.

[Lisa]

100. you'd have to do graduate work, to ensure that ...

Guys with doctorates in Classical Archaeology are total chick magnets.

[tigereye]

119. well, I'm married

but I'm sure that there are other women who would... charm them with your ancient tales! :)

Isn't there an ancient lit website where you would find others highly appreciative of your skills?

[cosmik debris]

87. The whole truth

I still have all my High School and College Latin text books.

I graduated from High School in 1968

[DerekG]

37. Alright, here it is....

Like everyone, I assailed the first two Star Wars prequels, due, in no small part, to the stolid performances and the absence of narrative thrust. Thus, my anticipation for Episode III was mired in dread, and I prepared to flush the entire prequel trilogy down the memory hole.

But something happened.

"Revenge of the Sith" was actually good. What's more, it may very well be the second best of the saga.

By now, everyone here knows that Anakin's fall was predicated on his love for Padme (along with hubris and misguided utopianism). The problem is, I never bought their love story, since the courtship of Skywalker and Amidala was so damned execrable in "Attack of the Clones." I found myself in the galling position of adoring a movie that just didn't resonate as it should have.

So I did it. I wrote my first, and last (God willing), piece of fan fiction.

I crafted my own Episode II love story, perfectly congruent with what had transpired in I and III, but one with substance, and melodramatic sweep.



I now hang my head in shame.

[XemaSab]

45. So did Padme

hook up with Ewan?

Or did Ewan hook up with Anakin?

(I heart slashy fanfic!)

[DerekG]

58. No. Remember, it has to be congruent with I and III

No love triangles.

In my rendition, the impetus for Padme's attraction to Anakin lies in the latter's desire to end suffering (which was one of the motivations for his fall in III); she sees in this young man (shy, not stalkerish) a reflection of her own desire to bring peace to a crumbling galaxy, as well as a means to bring children into the world who will be empowered by the same ethos.

Her love for him, coincidentally, reaches a crescendo when they return to Tatooine, with the aim of not only rescuing his mother, but freeing the slaves in Mos Espa (again, foreshadowed in a throwaway line in I concerning Anakin's dream).

I do retain the "forbidden love" angle, but it does not figure as prominently.

[XemaSab]

59. Ah OK

Just checking.

Most Harry Potter fanfic centers around relationships that Rowling would never envision in her darkest nightmares.

[DerekG]

64. Hey, I may be a geek, but I'm not a pervert

If I start writing erotic fan fiction, you have full license to shoot me.

[XemaSab]

68. Will do

:-D

[Lilith Velkor]

67. Yaay!

My only fan fiction was also a Star Wars, erm, "love story".

(Since you didn't ask, it was Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon. Not exactly congruent.) :evilgrin:

[last_texas_dem]

39. Timed the length of songs and counted the number of lines in books

Neither are stereotypically geeky, but both are pretty weird and probably indicate some kind of severe anal retentiveness on my part! Back when I was six years old, I used to think the only way to tell how long a book really was was to count the number of lines of print in it. Why this was the only way to do this and why I even cared how long a book *really* was I'm not sure of, but I spent hours doing this.

A couple years later I got more into music and used to pass hours "timing" the length of songs if their lengths weren't listed on the album. I remember working very hard to make sure the song began when the little hand on the clock was on the "12" and making sure I didn't conclude the song was over until the last note of the fade had played out!

Exactly what the point of doing all of that was is lost on me now, but it seemed like a great way to pass the time as a child! Oh well, at least it gave me a one-of-a-kind geeky confession to be able to make...

[LeftyMom]

41. I spent yesterday arguing about medieval demographics

and to what degree they'd need to be skewed for an established military outpost on the frontier in order to improve the realism of LeftyDad's D&D campaign. We spent a few hours working with the stats, even though his gamers will never notice the difference.

I don't even like D&D.

Oh, I also learned to sew to make my own ren fair garb.

[Lisa]

101. I've got the Atlas of World Population History right here ...

Need any regional estimates?

[LeftyMom]

109. No thanks, this was for some imaginary town

We were just trying to figure what percentage of the population would be active military, retirees and how many nobles would be in residence or have a household in the town.

I think LeftyDad finished writing the town up earlier today.

[Greyhound]

49. OK, I lived in my own Dungeon for about 6 years, gone to more than...

1 Star Trek convention, developed a universal gaming system so we could get out of the dungeons (much more playable than GURPS), got a degree in computers, saw Star Wars episode IV about 100 times, played avalon hill strategy games, read pretty much all of the sci-fi in the Denver Public Library, learned obsolete computer languages just 'cause,
BUT DUDE! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[I Know How To Do it]

51. Wore my, "Space Suit" all summer long when I was 6 or 7.

I'm 40 now, but when I was 6 or 7, Astronauts were probably the coolest people ever!
I spent all summer wearing a, "Space Suit" that my Grandma helped me build. Football helmet with the face mask taken off and some plastic sheet for the visor. Football shoulder pads that I hooked the, "Oxygen tanks" to, and G'Ma whipped up suit with the sewing machine. I carried around Space Food Sticks (Anyone remember them? I think you can still get them) and drank Tang for every meal. I walked to the public swimming pool everyday wearing it. I took it off to go swimming then put it back on to walk home. Only two or 3 kids thought it was cool and would play with me. Everyone else just laughed at me and called me names. I had a pretty elaborate, "Moon" in my back yard and would walk around really slow investigating things and would draw pictures of everything and take careful notes.

[youthere]

54. I used to flash the SPOCK sign at people...

and I went through High School saying "Shazbat!"

On edit: Oh and I wore parachute pants...in the 90's.

[AllegroRondo]

55. I sold my X-Men #1 comic book to finance my honeymoon.

got close to $9,000 for it. We took a cruise to the Bahamas.

[seemunkee]

81. That is not geeky, that is true love

[DerekG]

110. Here's a geek question: Do you regret selling it?

:)

[AllegroRondo]

112. Not a bit.

:)

[pdx_prog]

56. Probably hanging out here so much....lol

[enigmatic]

61. Oh God..

I love to DX w/ all my vintage radios and I go to RV shows every year. I guess that confirms my geek cred..

[Withywindle]

63. I think my geek credentials are solid...

I'm a former regional spelling-bee champion.

I write and read slashy fanfic. (Obi-Wan/Anakin? Bring it on.)

I've written and read slashy fanfic based on the fucking Silmarillion. (And lost sleep over my dodgy Quenya.)

I translated Velvet Underground lyrics into Latin as a teenager.

I've edited and written for music zines--pre-Internet!

I wore a costume to the Return of the King premiere in my city. (Generic Spear-Carrier Extra of Rohan...and I'm a woman! I'm not the Arwen/Eowyn romantic gown type, though.)

I've been to two midnight Harry Potter book-release parties.

I spent a triple-digit number on a geek-toy lightsaber for my boyfriend for Christmas. (he was so ecstatic it was well worth it).

I not only played D&D as a teenager, I was a very hard-working DM! (and remember, I'm a girl!)

I won a faked-orgasm contest at an SF convention once. I was dressed as Death at the time. (The cute goth girl one from the Sandman comics, that is.)

I've written soul-baring love postcards to two fairly obscure art-rock musicians, both at least 25 years my senior.

I've attended a number of hipster indie-rock parties...in clothes I bought at a Renaissance Faire.

[tigereye]

71. that's a great list

very similar to mine :hi: WW


won spelling bee - check
voted most studious in high school- check
carried giant piles of books - check
Academic games conventions - check
love all sci-fi - check
dated nerd boys in hs who loved D and D, SCA, Yes and Tom Lehrer
English Lit major - check
old school punk obsessive - check
played drums in female punk band ( I'm female) cuz no one else would - check
collect female band stuff - check
lived in record stores, piles of CDs, albums, etc.
spent 15 years shlepping my drum kit around as a member of a weird post-punk band for no $ - check
worked in numerous libraries - check
became a therapist ( I think it's geeky, but not everyone does)
married computer making, machine language learning, Tarot reading math geek guy- check
Harry Potter - check


King Crimson, Eno, Capt. Beefheart, need I say more? :)

Can't say there is one geekiest thing. Probably the Academic Games conventions!

[Withywindle]

92. Sistah!

Geeks are the best people. We're passionate about things, dammit!


(OK, full confession: dippy mail went to John Cale and Tom Verlaine--who's only 20-ish years older than me now that I think about it. Never heard back from either, which is hardly surprising considering not only the stalkerish nature of my missive, but also that I was too "courtly" to include my address).

[tigereye]

120. nice choice of guys to write to, that's for sure!

:thumbsup:

[sakabatou]

66. Magic: the Gathering

Diablo 1 and 2
Warcraft

My whole f-ing life...

[MrScorpio]

69. Collected 10,000 comic books

Just a few

[yvr girl]

72. I've passed notes written in elements

To decipher them, you needed to know the abbreviation of the element.

[HEyHEY]

75. A toga party

[Felix Mala]

82. Tried to get my 7th grade friends interested in musicals.

They just stopped coming over to my house to visit.

[m_welby]

83. wow, I thought I was a geek

just because I'm System Admin.

Originally went to school to be an electronics tech, drifted into computeres and got a Bachelors in CS.

You all have me beat, but just to be fair, the geekiest thing I ever did was the (auggh!!) tap dancing lessons for 11 years as a kid. - and to this day I still can't dance.

[Smarty Pants Liberal]

88. Learned to play the ukulele

because the man at the music store insisted I should learn it before the banjo. Never got around to the banjo but I can play a mean "Leaving on a Jet Plane" on the ukulele.

[TrogL]

90. Bought a copy of the "Handbook of Chemistry and Physics"

What's worse, I could probably use a new copy about now.

[BreweryYardRat]

91. I believe I have you all beat.

I'm currently in the process of making a mail shirt out of 14 gauge 1/4" inner diameter galvanized steel links.

[DerekG]

94. Wear it in public and you win hands down!

n/t

[Lisa]

99. wow -- my personal best is 16 ga. ID 1/4" links ...

... and that was a sleeveless byrnie. (For the uninitated -- making it knee-length and with full sleeves would be double the work. And using heavier wire, such as 14 ga., means you have to be very strong and very patient.)

Please tell me you're doing the standard 1-4 pattern, and not 2-6? As it is, it's going to weigh a ton ... but you won't have much trouble with "mail moths"! (I confess to having done a sample swatch of 14 ga. 1/4", and it took days!)

In any case, I'm not arm-wrestling you. Uh-uh.

[Wetzelbill]

107. nobody can touch that

:)

[Wetzelbill]

108. I actually get psyched up to watch Charlie Rose and Jim Lehrer everyday

That's pretty bad I think.

[xmas74]

93. D&D

I've done the Monty Python thing.
I was the only female member of the Strategy and Tactics Club in high school (and kicked alot of guys butts at it).
I was in band.
I was in debate.
I've been to midnight showings of SW and fan showings of LOTR.
I've been to a midnight release of Harry Potter.
I was fascinated w/ Arthurian legend in high school.
I started reading books on astronomy when I was 6 years old.
I purposely used to check out the biggest book I could find in the school library and read it just because I could.
I've read a dictionary. Make that two dictionaries. Websters and Black's Law. From beginning to end.
I decided to read every volume of the encyclopedia in my grade school libray and I did.
I begged my parents to send me to Space Camp (there was never any money for it).

And now for my braindead moment:
When I was in jr. high I wanted to go to a local military school because I heard that they had a decent amount of people enter military academys (and I wanted to be an astronaut.)

[swag]

95. I'm actually excited about working this weekend to install faster network

switches and cards.

That's fucked up.

[ikojo]

96. Here goes.....I've been to several

Dr Who Conventions...even traveled to New Orleans the weekend of Live Aid for a Dr Who convention and didn't see any of the concert.

I've gone to sci fi cons dressed as the 4th Doctor in 100 degree weather. Back in 1982, there was a heat wave in St Louis and a group of us left the Chase Park Plaza hotel to find cheap eats. We were all dressed in garb of some sort.

I own an FX Force Darth Vader lightsaber

I am a gadget-holic...

D&D...been there done that.

[Lisa]

98. I purchased a replica Coolus "G" Roman helmet on eBay ...

... and noticed that they shipped me a Coolus "E" instead (the cheekpieces are a different shape). But instead of sending it back in a fit of pique, I decided that I like the Coolus "E" even better ... so I spent a weekend trimming the neckguard and filing down the crest ornament, to make it look more like the excavated examples from Robinson's "Armour of Imperial Rome". (The manufacturers of both helmets made a bunch of mistakes ...)

With this in mind, it probably makes sense that I'm more worked up about the 2nd edition of Bishop and Coulston's "Roman Military Equipment" (with new improved line drawings!) than I am about Harry Potter.

http://www.romanmilitaryequipment.co.uk/faq.htm

oh -- and noting the other examples on this thread -- I took 3 years of Latin, voluntarily, in high school. That's pretty geeky.

[Wetzelbill]

104. woa, you are a nerd...

Jk :)

I actually think all that is pretty cool. My brother would probably fall in love with you. He's into all that stuff. :)

[Lisa]

105. you think I'm bad -- check out these guys ...

These are folks who will remove the finials from their porch lamps and solder them onto their sword scabbards, "because it's exactly right for a Pompeii gladius chape!".

http://www.larp.com/legioxx/

If your brother hasn't heard of them already, he might be interested -- there are affiliate organizations all over North America and Europe.

[Wetzelbill]

106. LOL that is good..

haha

Thanks for the link.

[Wetzelbill]

102. gave a woman my number with a really geeky line on the paper

to make her laugh. She didn't find it funny. It pissed her off I think. Which was a surprise because I always said nerdy flirty things to her and she loved it too. I fucked up on that one.

The line. Man, this is bad. Now keep in mind I wasn't using it to be smooth, I was intentionally being a dork like I sometimes do.

"Alphebetically speaking, U R A Q T."

:nuke:

[spinbaby]

103. Learned a language just for fun

Japanese.

[Nye Bevan]

113. Doctor Who

I watched the entire "Dalek Invasion of Earth" DVD set, with the commentary and informational subtitles, in one sitting.

In the UK someone exhibiting this kind of behavior is known as an "anorak".

[caty]

114. I don't think it's geeky, but---

my family and friends do. I like musicals that have been made into movies. "Funny Girl" and many others. I just got "Phantom of the Opera" and I've already watched it a dozen times.

[Felix Mala]

118. Funny Girl is one of my favorites along with Sweet Charity

[Strawman]

115. Probably building a crystal radio

[MissMillie]

116. The midnight showing of The Return of the King

on the night it opened.

(What can I say? I'm just not all that geeky. Dull and drab, maybe, but not geeky.)

[tigereye]

121. nah you always look perky in your pix MM

[MissMillie]

125. aren't you kind?!

thank you!

[tigereye]

127. you are welcome!

[Felix Mala]

117. A friend I only know as an adult admitted to me that he was a

member of the "Space: 1999" fan club!!!

[Bassic]

122. I play D&D and Warhammer

that's pretty much it.

[seemunkee]

124. I have a life size Yoda figure on display along with my action figures