GEEK OUT! geekiest things about you
POSTED BY: OPPYH
UPDATED: Monday, January 4, 2010 19:05
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Originally posted by Jaydepps:
Not sure if this is the type of geeky you guys were looking for, but I practically know everything about the Philadelphia Flyers. It is so bad that if someone says the last name I can give their first name and probably their number and when they played for the team.
Geek, of a sort.
The laughing Chrisisall
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1. I own all but 6 of the 25th anniversary G.I Joe 3 3/4" action figures.
2. I've bought Serenity & Firefly Blu-ray disks and I don't even have a Blu-ray player yet.
3. I own a Serenity lunch pail
4. Every time I hear "I aim to misbehave" I smile.
And too many other geeky things to list
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Well, I know what an ellipsis is. I also know what a tittle is. I know not only what a semicolon is, but how it's actually meant to function. I subscribe to 'word of the day' e-mails. I enjoy annotated books. I am English Language Geek Extraordinaire!
Also, I am really, really jealous of Peacekeeper's HHGTTG collection.
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Is anything Firefly/Serenity related too cool to be geeky or is it just me?
1. I know the Zork universe pretty well.
Senior year high school English (when I was still passing that class), I wrote a paper about the meaning of the word 'Zork'. When Chuck mentioned Zork in the very first ep of "Chuck", I knew what he was talking about! I haven't beat any of the text based games without cheats/walkthroughs (I've tried them all, but blind mazes kick my ass!), although I did print out the whole Encyclopedia Frobozzica.
2. I'm trying to design a spaceship AND a zeppelin. And I'm NOT an engineer. Getting the interior to match the exterior with form-and-function in a house is pain. For a ship with an angled outer hull (in places), it's a bitch.
3. This year I bought an old big-box Baldur's Gate (5 CDs), just so I could have all the bells and whistles (big manual, big map, big box). Too bad the "postal employee" crammed it into the mailbox! (It was rainy that day.) The box was in that weatherproof plastic bubblewrap stuff, it didn't NEED to go in the mailbox, GORRAMNIT!!! Luckly, my box massaging skills are well honed. I managed to get the box to about 95% OK status.
4. I have 3 Square One TV videos from YouTube. Also, the Wet Paint video from Seseme Street.
5. I have all my LEGOs (too many to list here, but still not enough), and I have access to my brothers for the time being.
6. I WANT to work at a Buy More.
7. I'm a lonely, lone wolf :(
More later. Maybe...
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Find here the Serenity you seek. -Tara Maclay
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Quote:All available on Amazon or BBC website RD. Except the dressing gown of course.lol
Originally posted by RiverDancer:
Well, I know what an ellipsis is. I also know what a tittle is. I know not only what a semicolon is, but how it's actually meant to function. I subscribe to 'word of the day' e-mails. I enjoy annotated books. I am English Language Geek Extraordinaire!
Also, I am really, really jealous of Peacekeeper's HHGTTG collection.
Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
I scored 43 out of 50 on a test for Asperger's Syndrome. Is that geeky?
My daughter and I joke that Asperger's Syndrome should be renamed, "Ultimate Geek Syndrome" and this is from a young lady that has an official diagnosis of AS. She's currently working on an AA in web design and just started the Cisco Networking Certification courses.
OK, here are my geek symptoms:
1. I have worn really thick glasses (very nearsighted, but was an early adopter for soft contacts) since 3rd grade and lived with my nose in a book or wandering in rapture in any library pre-internet. I ended up #10 in my high school class of 250 without any effort.
2. I get waves of "tech lust" when new gadgets come out. Right now I desperately want a Droid phone from Verizon (the iPhone is passe INMHO despite being the owner of a iTouch) but I can't get a new phone until May. Hey, maybe something even better will be out by then.
3. I drove 5 hours to Maryland and paid for 2 nights in a hotel for a chance to be a unpaid extra in the Browncoats: Redemption fan film. I even supplied my own Chinese inspired outfit.
And let me see, I think I have 4 copies of Firefly including the Blu-Ray version, 3 copies of Serenity...
Long time divorced/single Mom, whose daughter, after dragging me reluctantly to see Serenity in 2005, and seeing the rapture on my face after the movie, told me to "embrace my inner geek" and I have.
And the list goes on.
http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/
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1. I have hand painted (by myself) a collection of over 10,000 military miniatures from many eras including WWII, Colonials, Medieval, American Civil War, Ships of many sorts, aircraft and other sorts of geeky stuff.
2. I keep an unopened, in the celophane, copy of Serenity for emergency gifts.
3. Between my wife and I (Geeks do marry) we have at last count over 12.000 books (including all the paperbacks I bought as a kid for 35 cents). We joke that the reason we stopped moving around was that the books were too hard to move.
4. At 53, I went back to school for my PhD in Computer Science.
5. In 1975, my college roomy and I build a home computer from a kit. It had a blistering 1 megahert processor, 32K (as in kilobytes) of memory that we had to pay extra for, storage was on a cassette drive and we even had a line printer hat was 40 charaters wide.
And the list goes on ;-)
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one of my proudest possessions is my 95c copy of the Berkeley paperback edition of Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. It's a replacement- I found it at a used book store, to replace the copy I had since I was a teenager, that I wore out.
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Originally posted by startroop:
3. Between my wife and I (Geeks do marry) we have at last count over 12.000 books (including all the paperbacks I bought as a kid for 35 cents). We joke that the reason we stopped moving around was that the books were too hard to move.
Oh, I'm *J*E*A*L*L*O*U*S*. Not of your wife, of your library. Makes my "whole living room wall of books" look small. If you ever get divorced, can I get custody of your books? I'll make sure they have a good home...
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