GEEK OUT! geekiest things about you
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UPDATED: Monday, January 4, 2010 19:05
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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...
I'd just want to read my way through it.
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1) I made a REALLY big phaser in my sculpture class last month:
2) I spent 6 hours over 10 days painting & re-painting this stupid toy last week:
3) Serenity is my favourite movie of all time.
4) I had drinks (at a hotel bar during a convention in NYC) with James Doohan in the early eighties.
5) In the seventies I used to walk to High School barefoot because of Kwai-Chang Caine.
6) I met Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster at DC Comics because of a Superman fan film I made & showed at a Creation Con (what a freakin' honour!! And they LIKED my film!!!!!!)
7) I did some stunts for the Troma flick "Citizen Toxie," got paid & fed for it, and am even in the credits (though they spelled my last name a little bit wrong)
Where's my Geek Crown?
You get the spirit award my friend. Drinks with Scotty.....AWESOME. I like the giant Phaser. I was hoping for more lists like yours, but apparently there just aren't geeky types on this site. Either that or they just want to keep their inner geek more opaque than translucent.
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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.
Heck, I can't argue with calling it that. Sounds about right, really.
I have no idea where to go from here, or what it means, really. To me, it wasn't any kind of trauma to hear it - it was like a lightbulb went off over my head (and not the flickery fluorescent kind, which really bother me, but which I only really notice the flicker of when I'm stressed). It was one of those forehead-slapping moments, when I heard the discussion and some symptoms, and it was like a checklist - then they started listing the some common behaviors, and it was as if somebody finally GOT me, after all these years! It didn't make me feel BAD at all, or "handicapped" in any way - it was one of those things that made me just say, "Well, SHIT - THAT explains a whole helluva lot!"
So, yeah. Not a handicap at all - it's an ABILITY!
Mike
Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde
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The way it happened with my daughter was just about the same way. She'd been seeing a counselor to deal with problems associated with ADHD and learning problems (and a nasty divorce that I was going through) and I kept telling the counselor that she had more going on than straight ADHD. She had some OCD issues, depression,love of loose clothes, rigidy of schedule, social problems etc. Just a jumble of things.
After a visit one day he handed me an article and told me to read it...it described her exsactly.
And like you said, it was like a palm to the head and a "Duh". It's nice to have a name for the elephant.
She's working through her various issues and is doing very well. Friday she passed her exam in a course that she'd worked very hard on (second attempt at the course too)and I was so proud of her that I almost started crying.
And she immediately headed for the computer to play with her gaming buddies from around the world.
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in arbitrary order.
1) I memorised 209 decimals in pi
2) and the periodic table of elements
3) read Lord of the Ring atleast 7 times
4) read Dragonlance chronicles and legends atleast 4 times
5) plays world of warcraft
6) i love math, really love it.
7) I programmed a textbased adventure game on a c64
8) when people call me geek, it feels like a compliment
9) joss whedon fanboy, goes without saying
10) bought harry potter book one in walesish** even though I dont understand a word.
geeky xmas to everybody
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Limiting the list to three items:
3. In 1993 I participated in a shouting match in a gaming store with 9 other people about "what color orcs actually are" I & 4 others supported a "greenish-black" Tolkien orc coloring and stood opposed to a "forest green" coloring of a 5-person warhammer player faction. To this day the issue stands unresolved.
2. I own and play games on a working Commodore 64 in my basement.
1. I always keep 2 spares of the Firefly box set to give away when needed. Not to lend...TO GIVE. Like a missionary handing out bibles.
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Okay- THE geekiest thing about me:
I once went to a showing of Superman II in NYC at the Loews Astor Plaza with a friend- we were attending a convention, and were at the costume event dressed as Superman (me) & Batman (him), and we went to the showing in our costumes, and before the movie started, we signed, like, three or four dozen autographs each on souvenir programs for thrilled little kids in the theatre.
Geek Heaven, let me tell ya!
The laughing Chrisisall
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Well, I've only read Lord of the Rings like three times, so now I feel less geeky for that 
And I'm all into literature! I need to break that great red tomb out again. Read it over the winter break.
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Far out on the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this sun at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended lifeforms are so mind-bogglingly primitive they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, and the problem was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this, but they largely concerned the movements of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained. A lot of people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
That's from memory. I may be a little off, it's actually been a couple years since I've read it. I used to read it about every six months or so, but once you have a thing more or less memorized... well, anyway. I've done that with a few other books, too. Some, most of you would probably know, some are my own private geekiness.
I used to be able to recite about half the voice-over monologues from the X-files. As well as Mulder and Scully's badge numbers. And I could name episodes from single lines of dialogue... And tell you which number of which season that episode was. I can, of course, do that with Firefly. There being less of it, I don't know how impressive that might be. Buffy would be more impressive, but I'm not at that point yet.
Hm. I was the only person in my Typography & Layout class who could actually explain what a golden rectangle layout was. Including the teacher. I'm not sure if that's more teacher failing or more my geekiness.
209 decimals of pi???? Holy handgrenade!!
^That's geeky all by itself. I shouldn't even have to explain it 
I'm sure there's more. Those are the most geeky things I can think of at this time. Other than the fact that I score at least 40% on every 'how geeky are you' quiz, and my highest score was 80% or so. Yeah, and I totally take those just to see if I can geek with the best of them, cuz I feel like a Beta most of the time. Oh yes.
edit: Don't feel too bad, Dancer, I've only read Lord of the Rings twice. Though I am partway through my third read now. My first readthrough might not even count, as I was fairly young at the time and only followed the very bones of the story. I didn't know what it was talking about most of the time when it went into the history and whatnot. I appreciated it much more when I read it as a teenager.
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