The Geek/Nerd Thread

[Edwardo Piet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-Pyl9k0VmM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68nS6RiHYbI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgcGeqaIFs4

[AFTT47]

Major nerd here. Here are some of my credentials:

I was a D&D player when it first came out in the 70s.
My first kiss was Grace Lee Whitney - the actress who played Yeoman Rand in the original Star Trek series - at a Star Trek convention. I've lost count how many I went to.
I saw the original Star Wars over 30 times in the theater.
I met my wife at a Star Trek convention and we went to one in lieu of a honeymoon.
I saw Revenge of the Nerds when it premiered.
I used to believe aliens were visiting and built the pyramids (not exactly a feather in my cap but I got better).
I started programming in 1981.
I've been an electronics hobbyist since the 70s.
I've been president of an astronomy club.
I've built and launched model rockets since 1981.
I've built more than 10 computers, one setup with 3 28" monitors and a 48" TV.

There's more but I think that's enough.

[Joods]

My love of MTG is strong.

8000 cards strong, to be approximate. Not counting the cards currently in the over 20 decks I have built. Three of my kids play as does my fiancee.

I also love the Harry Potter movies and books,
LOTR series of movies, anything Marvel comic related and Star trek stuff as well.

I was in a wicked D&D campaign a few years back. I miss my character. She was a tiefling, who had red dragon origins and her skill set was sorcery.

[Joods]

Oh, my dad was an Aerospace Engineer - a fancy term for a rocket scientist
He worked on the Apollo missions.

And he was a huge fan of star trek.

[Edwardo Piet]

My most recent electronic track has this sample at the beginning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAVVy_x3Erg

That's a pretty nerdy sample to put into electronic music I think.

[Athene]

[SteelCurtain]

This is how I nerd.

http://atheistforums.org/thread-25831.html

[c172]

I know much more about soccer than any of my better friends. However, I couldn't say the score of the last Liverpool vs. Man U match. I like to watch the sport without cluttering my brain with stats. I also am interested in the branding and marketing of soccer. I watch MLS and NCAA women most regularly, but like watching some EPL, and lots of women's soccer. II also get access to lots of Liga MX on cable, living so close to Tijuana, but I only occasionally watch.

I love soccer, but also need variety in my life. The only stuff in my collection is two jerseys, a bunch of college tees, a poster from my college women's team, and two balls used in my college (one men's, one women's).

[Alex K]

I don't have much in the way of traditional scifi/fantasy geek credentials. Comic books do nothing for me. Well, I've seen all the Star Trek and went to the German premier of Star Trek 8 as a Trill. Anyways.

Wife and I are theoretical physicists (hey, that has got to count for something) so we understand all the boards on Big Bang theory.

We had a Darwin/Dinosaur themed wedding. We got fancy wine glasses with engraved Feynman diagrams from our publications as a wedding gift.

When we visit cities with Natural History museums, we make a point of seeing all the Quaggas and Megatheriums we can.

Once I got drunk shitless from juniper schnaps on a school trip to the alps, and to prove that I was sober, I programmed an alcohol tester on the spot on my programmable pocket calculator. I woke up with a big penis drawn on me forehead and arm, so I guess it was not too persuasive. But the program ran just fine.

I was into electronics since I was 9 yo or so.

I'd call myself a music nerd, though it is difficult to say what exactly that entails. It's more like an attitude. I read about music theory and dabble in composition when I'm not reading science. We go to metal festivals whenever possible (not often enough)

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Most things in Geekdom, I can take or let alone. You lot decide:

-I like the LOTR books, hated the films.

-I've never been to a science fiction or fantasy convention.

-I own an original 'Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari' poster.

-I think D&D in insanely dull, but I've played a lot of 'Traveller'.

-I like most of the original 'Twilight Zone' episodes, but 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' generally leave me cold.

-I cried when Roger Zelazny died.

-I prefer Asimov's popular science writing to his science fiction.

-I think 'Mars Attacks' is one of the most gawds awful pieces of shite ever put on film.

-Rocky Balboa is a more interesting character than Indiana Jones.

-'Doctor Who' should have been cancelled after Tom Baker.

So, am I a geek, a nerd, or am I to be condemned to the Outer Dark of mundanity?

Boru