The geekiest thing you have ever done

[Chovexani]

When Star Wars Episode 1 came out, I was one of the dorks on line in full Jedi regalia. I got on UPN 9 news one night during one of those "OMFG, can you believe these people?!" reports. I guess it's because I was one of the few girls online that wasn't dressed like Princess Leia.

No, I've never lived it down.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Nor should you live that down.

:evilgrin:

[Chovexani]

4. Ha!

I know, I know. :P

I'm a costume fiend, I can't help it. I'm dressing up again this weekend...ya know, this is why my family always jokes that I should never run for public office, there are too many weird pictures of me on the Internet.

[WeRQ4U]

2. Boy Scout Show - Age 11

I was jazzed up in my full geek regalia and I participated in a flag raising and lowering ceremony at the fucking mall of all places. The pictures have since been burned and the uniform and merit badge sash packed away in a secure, underground location.

[Chovexani]

5. LOL!

That sounds adorable, actually. :)

But oh man I'd burn those pictures too.

[Lerkfish]

3. ah...that makes me feel old.

Star Wars (now episode 4) came out when I graduated high school, in 1977.

AFter its success, soon followed by a laughable attempt, Battle Beyond the Stars (I think), with John Boy Walton as the "hero". God that was horrible. You never see that movie anymore, for good reason.

er...ok, geekiest thing? First year in college, a floormate's mom custom made me a hooded robe a'la Obiwan that I used as a bathrobe that whole year...going to the communal showers, etc.
No one laughed at that I knew about. Looking back, i think the only reason was me being 6'4 and 250 lbs.

:)

howz that for geeky?

[Chovexani]

7. You win

I only ever wear my costumes in the presence of other geeks. I salute you. :)

[Lerkfish]

11. a dubious distinction!

however, I stopped doing such after college.

:)

[MissMillie]

6. Midnight showing of ROTK (Lord of the Rings)

And no, I didn't dress up.

I'm just not all that geeky.

[Xithras]

8. I've participated in NINE professional video game competitions

Once upon a time, long, long ago, I was one of the best DoomII players on the West Coast. We used to compete in San Jose, with some of the best players in western US coming in from as far away as Colorado and British Columbia. I was pretty consistently in the top 10.

For those of you into video games, I used to compete with, and occasionally beat, Dennis Fong...aka Thresh...aka the guy who for the longest time was considered to be the best Quaker in the world, who became the poster child for online gaming in the late 90's, and who won John Carmacks Ferrari in a national competition.

After Quake came out, I participated in several competitions and placed well, and I founded and ran one of the first Quake Clans to grace the world (there are, literally, hundreds of thousands of them today spanning all kinds of games, but I founded the fourth, for the game that invented them), but I never quite got into the professional level of competition the same way I'd done in the Doom era. By the time Quake II came out, I'd officially hung up my hat and entered the realm of the hobby player.

[seemunkee]

9. Hacked a Nintendo power glove and a magnifying hood to my computer

to play with Virtual Reality programs. I still have the glove and a head mounted display I meant to hack also.

[Montauk6]

10. Annual pilgrimage to the Friends of Old Time Radio Convention in NJ.

[RandomKoolzip]

12. I turned down a chance to lose my virginity in favor of watching

"Space Ghost" for the first time.

I was high as all hell on pot and Vicodin and beer, and this was the funniest thing I'd seen in my life, and this girl I was with wanted to take me into the next room and do naughty things to me, but I said no, because I was laughing so hard and far too into "Space Ghost" to even THINK about sex.

Drugs are bad.

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. .

:rofl: understatement.

[Chovexani]

27. Bwah!

The closest I ever got to being that bad was during sex, glancing at the clock and freaking out because Trek was coming on in 5 minutes and trying to hurry it up.

The worst part? Partner was thinking the exact same thing.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

13. I missed a day of classes to attend a JFK Assassination Symposium

It was AWESOME - it was in Pittsburgh (where I attended law school) on the 40th anniversary in 2003. I wish I could afford the DVDs of the program!

[pdx_prog]

15. Cool....my 11th grade history teacher searved on...

the house assasination comittee. He has been a theorist since it happened and has interviewed anyone and everyone associated with it. His name is Wallace Milam. During history that year we had like a 2 week cirriculum around the assasination. He had his own copy of the Zapruder film and showed it over and over again (this was 1975 and you didn't see it examined then like you do now).

I was in Dallas a few years back, and was at the conspiracy museum there at Dealy. I was talking to the curator and I told him about my former teacher....he said he was just in there the week before with James Earl Ray's brother....lol

[alarcojon]

14. Participated in a Rubik's cube competition

Made the 90 second cut-off, missed the 60 second.

Unless you count getting a Ph.D in Mathematics as inherently geeky.

BTW, love Homey!

[Chovexani]

28. That was one of my favorite Homey skits

Next to the one where Homey started dating his parole officer and sold out. To this day, my friends and I call any fancy restaurant "Chez Whitey".

[alarcojon]

33. You're not Homey the Clown. You're Homey the MAN!

:rofl:

[Chovexani]

35. I heart In Living Color

:rofl:

[SarahB]

16. This is bad.

Purposely look as sexy as possible before trips to Radio Shack. Don't ask. :evilgrin:

[swag]

17. Wrote fanboy email to an economist.

[sniffa]

18. pix! pix! pix!

:hi:

[Chovexani]

30. LOL

I actually don't have any pics of me in Jedi robes but here's me at an anime convention a couple months ago (I'm wearing this outfit again at another con this weekend).



Yeah, I really don't have anything better to do with my time. :P

[sakabatou]

19. The (Censored) Devil's Monologue in 5th grade

[mykpart]

20. When I was 14, I joined the

Johnny Crawford fan club!

[Cannikin]

22. went to the BIG Trekkie convention in Vegas

[crispini]

23. Aw! What a great pic!

[Chovexani]

31. My aunt lives in Vegas

She's a HUGE Trekkie, and is pretty much responsible for me being such a huge Trekkie too. She went to that con and bragged about it to me for weeks afterward. I was so jealous. :cry:

[YankeyMCC]

24. Wrote my own screen lock for my

Commodore 64

Or maybe it's when I send emails using the TCP/IP handshake mnemonics as the Subject line (syn-syn/ack-ack)

[tk2kewl]

25. Let my mom guilt me into going to math-club (AKA mathletes) competitions

and having to tell the football coach that I couldn't practice on Thursdays because I was a mathlete. I never forgave mom for that one. :(

[Chovexani]

32. This is why I'm never having kids

Knowing me I'd do something stupid like name the kid after a video game character and dress the poor kid up and drag him/her to cons.

OMG, mathlete?! That's just...dude.

[tk2kewl]

36. Just imagine that conversation with Coach Wideline...

That was the end of varsity for me. I was down to JV. Got be captain on JV, but it's not the same. :(

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. Spent two and a half years of my life posting on a message board.

;) And it was worth it.

[Parrcrow]

29. Took a date to a Monkees concert

in my defence tho, it was her idea.:blush:

[MalibuChloe]

34. i went to the Rocky Horror Picture Show wearing a Hefty Bag

I was about 15 and had never been - and my mom told me everyone wears trash bags because they throw food and water and so I wore one and no one else did.

:cry:

[Chovexani]

37. Oh that sucks.

There, there.

When I still went, I used to go as Magenta. Mostly because all I had to do was dye my hair (it sticks out that way naturally :P).