Are you a geek? Prove it!

[NewWaveChick1981]

OK, I will! I'm a big science fiction geek. :hi:

This is me in the summer of 1981 (that's a friend of mine in the dragon suit!):



And here I am sitting in Richard Hatch's lap (the guy from Battlestar Galactica, not Survivor!):



Your turn to prove your geekiness! :P

[GirlinContempt]

1. This is the only pic I have

available

[NewWaveChick1981]

2. Cool!

:hi: That definitely qualifies you! :D

[eyesroll]

3. I wrote a 25-page term paper about the gender identity of the Dax symbiont

in Star Trek: DS9.

(I got an A- in the class, so...yay!)

[NewWaveChick1981]

4. That DEFINITELY qualifies you!

:hi:

[dolo amber]

29. ...

:spray:

That's AWESOME. :D

[liontamer]

31. Does the symbiont have a gender?

I don't know how they reproduce. The sexual choices made for the joined being reflect the preferences of the host.

[LeftyMom]

5. Okay, here are my pajamas

[NewWaveChick1981]

6. Love it! Another Monty Pythoner there!

:rofl: :hi:

[hfojvt]

27. I am going to have to disqualify both of you

You simply cannot look that good and still be a geek.

[NewWaveChick1981]

34. And why not?

We're really geeky....really! I've learned to hide in plain sight, though. :D

[hfojvt]

55. it is part of the mystique

of the geek.
You think putting on a costume makes you a geek.
However, the real geek is not wearing a costume, and they do not just wear their bunny slippers or rocket ship pajamas at home. Being a geek is not a choice, it is who we are, it is who society makes us be. People do not get to know me and find out that I am a geek. They see me on the street, walking around and the conformity of dunces points fingers, jeers and otherwise attacks.

[LeftyMom]

60. What makes you think that's not us?

You don't know me. If you did, you'd know that I have an encyclopedic knowledge of Star Trek trivia, I know how to strip and repaint Games Workshop armies like a pro, that I got my first computer when I was three (a commedore 64 I still have,) that I was on the fucking debate team in high school... Need I go on? I'm a geek, whether you happen to think I look like one or not. It's not a costume. I'm a geek no matter what shirt I'm wearing, as I was definitely reminded throughout my schooling, although I guess that was acceptable when I had bad skin and even less of a figure.

Don't judge people by how they look, especially in photos. Lots of us just aren't posting the ones where we're wearing goofy smiles and our foreheads are shiny.

[deucemagnet]

51. You even have the fuzzy bunny slippers...

...WITH A MEAN STREAK A MILE WIDE!!!111!! ;)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. I own both volumes of the Shakespeare Lexicon.

I don't own any photographic proof of it or anything though.

[NewWaveChick1981]

9. OK, we'll take your word for it!

The fact that you used the word "lexicon" qualifies you! :hi:

[billyskank]

8. What can I say?

I'm a computer programmer by trade. I know C. I learned assembler on our home computer when I was a teenager. I am the Real Deal. I am a nerd.

[NewWaveChick1981]

10. Computer programmer. 'Nuff said!

:* Nerd, geek, however you want to say it.... they're great! :loveya:

[billyskank]

13. They're great, eh? It was never that way in school

I am glad that nerds come up trumps in the end. :D

:loveya:

[NewWaveChick1981]

16. Nerds win every time in my book.

:) This is (of course) a generalization, but here is my point of view: nerds are funny, smart, and not too hung up on sports. That leaves plenty of time for everything else. :D

I was one of the "smart kids" in school and got picked on a lot for that. That's OK---the ones who picked on kids like me are regretting it now. :D

:hi:

[billyskank]

22. For sure!

All the smart kids leave home to go to university, and get cool jobs. All the "cool" kids leave school, and 10 years later they're still living in the same town, seeing the same people, and mostly working boring jobs. It truly is the Revenge Of The Nerds. :D

And you know another thing? Something I have observed as a guy. It's the plain studious girls to whom nobody ever paid any attention at school who grow up to be beautiful and sexy.

[NewWaveChick1981]

33. Isn't that the truth?

:D I visited my mother a couple of months ago and ran into one of my high school classmates. I went off to college while she decided to work "for a while" after school. She's married with four children, one of whom is off to college this year, and she's lived in that podunk town all her life. :yoiks: I left high school and never looked back. Revenge of the Nerds indeed! :applause:

That's a cool observation! One of the girls I went to high school with also went to the same university I did, and we both remarked about how the other had changed since leaving that high school. She was as studious as I was, and we both really came out of our shells there. :) I've always found myself attracted to smart, funny nerds. :D

See, what high school guys don't often realize is that although the plain, studious girls might be shy, there is usually a fierce libido hiding underneath the surface. :D

[Call Me Wesley]

11. Tsk!

I made this. Does that count?



P. S. Heidi still calls me a 'Trekkie.'

[NewWaveChick1981]

12. ROFL!

:rofl: If you could make Hasselhoff's hair into that helmet, you're the king! :rofl: That definitely counts...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. I've got one of these...

and I know how to work it.

[billyskank]

15. Can you read a vernier scale, too?

:D

[NewWaveChick1981]

17. Cool! A slide rule...

...definitely qualifies you. These kids today don't know what a slide rule is, let alone how to read it.... :applause:

[Xipe Totec]

19. Haven't seen them bones in ages!

:toast:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

23. There was actually a real cool article about them...

in a recent scientific american.

Which I'm sure we've all read, since we're all geeks.

Excelsior!

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Well, let's see...

I gave these away a few months ago because I have the entire set on DVD.



I also have "Grail," "Brian" and "Meaning of Life" on DVD, as well as the complete "Fawlty Towers" set and "At Last, the 1948 Show" and "Do Not Adjust Your Set," plus another "Grail" and another "Brian" on VHS, plus "Live at the Hollywood Bowl," "Parrot Sketch Not Included," Cleese's "How to Irritate People" and "The Secret Policeman's Private Parts," all on VHS. Oh, and about half a dozen Python books.

And then there's these guys in my Photobucket...









And I am...

[NewWaveChick1981]

20. Woohoo!

:woohoo: We have the Python TV DVD set too.... :applause: All the Python movies that are out on DVD we have... and hubby is working on the rest!

You qualify! :D

[LeftyMom]

26. Well if we're scrounging in our photobuckets

[Oeditpus Rex]

38. You saved the Killer Rabbit?

I just get stuff like that from here: http://orangecow.org/pythonet/pythonet.html

[LeftyMom]

42. I got it the old fashioned way.

Scrounged it up with google images.

[Dukkha]

21. I have many costumes

the most elaborate one being this Ringwraith
more details on it here:
http://www.joerenzetti.com/nazgul">Nazgul Ringwraith

[NewWaveChick1981]

24. Very cool!

You pass! :applause:

[mzteris]

68. omg

that is SO cool!

My son (12.5 yo) will absolutely go nuts over this. He is *very* into costumes - he plans for Halloween for months - lots of planning - lots of "found objects" - lots of improvising. He was a perfect Smeagol/Gollum several yrs ago. It was creepy what a good "voice" he could do.....

[Deep13]

25. I ain't eating no live chickens.

A geek is a carnival sideshow featuring a so called wild-man (usually a drunk) who wallows in filth and eats live animals as his act.

I prefer the term 'nerd.'

Okay, no photos handy, but I stood in line for six hours to meet Alan Bean, the 4th man to walk on the moon. Also, I built a telescope.

[NewWaveChick1981]

36. OK, definitely NERD then...

I DON'T wallow in my own filth or eat live animals. :puke: NERD now, NOT geek!

Thank you for that clarification.

[1gobluedem]

28. I'm a history geek

My college roommates finally refused to take walks with me until I stopped identifying the era in which every house we passed was built.

I cannot drive anyone anywhere I know without giving them the complete history of the area.

Do I qualify?

[displacedtexan]

35. I'm thinking about buying a house built in 1792.

People think I'm insane. It's in really good shape, too.
No laminated floors or pot lights.

To be fair, I was a cheerleader in school, college debater,
and I dated the football captain.

I wised up, though, when I realized how mean my friends were.
I could've written Heathers... except for the murders
and the blowing up the school part.

[1gobluedem]

41. I would LOVE to buy a house built in 1792!

Here in Michigan, though, we tend to knock things down as fast as we put them up. Buildings are lucky to survive 100 years.

When I was in Portsmouth, NH a few years ago a bunch of tiny little 18th century houses were being converted to condos. I love how people live in 200-300 year old houses in New England.

I did not date the football captain in high school, nor was I a cheerleader. But...my father was the high school football coach and in college I dated a hockey player who was the #3 scorer in the country at the time...my brief brush with fame. And I had some Heathers-type friends too who could have committed murder.

Now I'm a professional geek; I work in public radio.

[NewWaveChick1981]

37. You do. And I would LOVE To drive around with you

if you know that much about the area! That kind of thing fascinates me... :D

[Maestro]

30. Back in my teens

I played D&D, Risk and other various strategy, fanstasy board games with little figures. We'd play all night long.

[NewWaveChick1981]

39. Gamers qualify.

:hi: Know a few of them myself...

[Fleshdancer]

54. I'm hooked right now on D&D Online....

and I'm almost 30. :blush:

[atomic-fly]

32. at work I am

[NewWaveChick1981]

40. That counts!

:hi:

[Mutley]

43. All I want for Christmas is

a doppler radar mounted on the bed of a truck.



For stuff like this.

:D

[NewWaveChick1981]

44. OK, you pass!

:applause: That's some cool equipment!

[Mutley]

48. If only I had a couple million dollars.

:cry:

;)

[billyskank]

47. Oooh oooh oooh you know what I want?

A binary clock! :bounce:



:D

[Mutley]

49. Oh my goodness, billy!

How do you read that?

:D


Looks cheaper than mine. Wanna trade?:P

[billyskank]

50. I don't know!

:rofl: But I want one anyway! :D

[hunter]

88. I have one of those.

And a dozen old computers. Plus I use Linux, and I have a full size inflatable emperor penguin in my living room.

I used to have a lot more computers but my wife and I agreed a dozen was probably a good limit -- anything more was probably obsessive. One of these computers I built from scratch in 1979. One of these computers is an Amiga.

My wife has boxes of old Star Trek stuff, including a blue uniform. There is a lot of fan fiction in these boxes, and we both used to hang out with some of people who wrote it, and worse, posted it on usenet.

Very early after we met, my wife and I were walking down a street in Santa Monica, hand-in-hand in True Love, when I recognized Harlan Ellison walking towards us. I decided to cross the street before he recognized me, and I was still trying to come up with some pretext for it when my wife started tugging me that way. For entirely unrelated reasons, we both wanted to avoid him.

After he'd passed on the other side after our successful street crossing, I said, "That was Harlan Ellison."

My wife said, "I know."

[Ravenseye]

45. Geez what qualifies?

I have 8 longboxes of comics stashed away each one boarded and bagged, including such gems as the original appearance of the Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four #48.

I play Dungeons and Dragons regularly, and just finished a 2+ year stint as a Dungeon Master.

I have a tattoo of the Star Wars Rebel Alliance Logo.

How's that?

[NewWaveChick1981]

46. You pass!

:applause: You have plenty of ammunition. :D

[deucemagnet]

52. Do science geeks count?

I don't have a pocket protector, but I do have a PhD and a couple of manuscripts published in science journals. :shrug:

[NewWaveChick1981]

70. By all means...

:hi:

[Xipe Totec]

53. I can count to 1023 with my fingers in binary

Digitally, as it where....

:yoiks:

[NewWaveChick1981]

72. *groan* OK, you qualify...

even if your puns are painful... :yoiks:

[sakabatou]

56. It's a Ghidorah knock-off!

I have been to Fanimecon in San Jose this year and I plan on going back... possibly as Sephiroth from FFVII:AC.

[NewWaveChick1981]

73. Definitely "one of us"...

:hi:

[Giant Robot]

57. No pics for proof

but my 10,000+ comic books should carry some influence here.

[NewWaveChick1981]

75. Right you are...

Hubby's a comic artist, and our house is loaded with comics, action figures, you name it... :hi:

[NewJeffCT]

58. I guess I will have to take pics of my D&D books & Warhammer minis

I have D&D books going back to the 1970s. I had the original Deities & Demigods book that illegally contained the Cthulu mythos, but I hocked it on eBay when I need cash after my divorce. I still have my original Player's Handbook & DMG, however, as they were too beat up to sell. I also have my original dice set, but my d20 is nearly round now and comes up with the roll of "2" way way too often.

In regards to Warhammer, I commissioned a multiple Golden Daemon winning painter to paint the black orc general of my Orc & Goblin army. So, yes, I spent nearly $100 at the time to have a single miniature painted. I actually have a collection of minis I had painted by award winning mini-painters. And, for gifts for some of my gaming friends, I have painted up miniatures myself for them.

No pics yet, though.

[NewJeffCT]

67. too late to edit... but

I got misty-eyed at the end of "Return of the King", the last of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

[EFerrari]

59. So much geekery. We have a stashed collection of Avon bottles

that we'll use someday to make a movie. :)



My concordance to Shakespeare is holding up one end of the couch right now but I actually use it.

Doug can sing ANY cartoon or tv show theme song from 1959-1971.

We are saving up to buy the complete episodes of "The Dick Van Dyke Show".



lol

[NewWaveChick1981]

76. There are lots of us here!

Probably why we all get along so well... :P

[ghostsofgiants]

61. Hmm...does a hand-coded website with 100% valid XHTML and CSS qualify me?

(Though my host adds a tag automatically to my page which fucks up the validation when using the validation link I have on there, which is slightly annoying, haha.)

[NewWaveChick1981]

77. Silly question...

:rofl: :hi:

[baldguy]

62. One of my favorite books

It's called "The Concise Guide to Chemistry & Physics" from 1933. It runs about 5000 pages, with very small type. (Geekiness runs in the family; it belonged to my grandfather.)

[NewWaveChick1981]

78. OK, you're in!

:hi:

[TimeChaser]

63. Did you make your costume?

I make my own costumes for anime/gaming conventions :D

Also, I collect anime/game toys


And I've crossed some new level of geekiness by taking an older, crappy wolf toy and repainting it to be my own personal werewolf character in wolf form
<-- unfinished picture

And I play World of Warcraft :D



... Oh and I'm listening to video game music right now

[NewWaveChick1981]

79. Yes, and my friend made her dragon costume too.

I had some help with mine, but we put it together from scratch. You probably already know this, but it's a Dragonrider of Pern costume. :D

Very cool! A good friend of mine is into anime in a huge way. :hi:

[atomic-fly]

64. I think my crappie posts are funny

[NewWaveChick1981]

71. No, they're not---they're really crappie.

:P :hi:

[Fox Mulder]

65. Look at my DU username.

'Nuff said.

[NewWaveChick1981]

80. Definitely!

:hi:

[Guava Jelly]

66. Let me see

I own every episode of babylon 5 ever made even the movies
I've been to several conventions where I recieved Autographs from everyone from the cast of star trek to Cat Woman (julie Numar)
I have a closet full of comics trading cards and action figures.
Some of my fav movies are
Excalibur
the last starfighter
lord of the rings trilogy
X-men
Star wars
and tons more.
I live in my parents basement I'm 40 and never kissed a girl ( just kidden)

[NewWaveChick1981]

81. You're in...

:hi: Glad that last item's not true... :rofl:

[Pale Blue Dot]

69. I post on a website called "Democratic Underground"

I even met my future wife there. Good enough? :thumbsup:

Oh, and I love MST3K and everything it stands for.

[NewWaveChick1981]

82. Definitely...

:applause: I love MST3K, especially when Joel was on...

[wildhorses]

74. if wishing would make it so...I am the biggest GEEK in here..

if wishing would make it so...


if I can't be geek I wish I could have a geek for a boyfriend...

[NewWaveChick1981]

83. We'll count you in...

:hi:

[wildhorses]

85. hey thanks...anytime I can do anything for you just ...

holler back, girl...
:hi:

[Brewman_Jax]

84. I have garb

and wear it in the summer.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

86. I am a medieval history geek

I actually enjoy Beowulf, the Decameron, The Divine Comedy, the Canterbury Tales, etc. I also know every meaningless statistic involving Duke U.'s men's basketball :)

[Fox Mulder]

87. Someday...when I run into some extra cash, I want to buy this:

http://www.meade.com/lx200r/index.html

[seemunkee]

89. This is easy

I have over 4K comics bagged, boarded and stored in custom drawer cabinets that I built specically for them. I lost another 1500 to a basement flood in the fall.
I also have two bookcases of action figures and that does not include the Transformer and Star Wars figures that are boxed in storage. I also have a life size Yoda statue sitting next to my ventriloquist dummy and talking Beanie doll.
I have sewn a jester and dragon costume for my pet hedgehogs and made a knights costume out of chain mail for them also.