[OT] Your Geekiest Moment

[GravyFingerz]

Describe the moment you realized you couldn't get any geekier. I'll start us off.

After work, I drop by this particular gas station/convienance store to pick up a carbonated refreshment. On one shelf, they have your standard convienance items - markers, paper clips, motor oil, etc. In particular, they have a stack of 70 page notepads, the kind you write notes in at school.

Everytime I walk by that shelf and see those notepads, I get excited at the RPG related stuff I can write in them. It's almost a euphoric/adrenaline rush sort of thing.

As soon as I pass by them, I feel so geeky and unclean.

Ok everyone, now it's time for you guys to spill the beans!

 

[Silver Moon]

Well, when it comes to geeky moments how about this. I found out about this D&D oriented internet site, and spent hours just reading the various comments posted by others, and making an occassional posting myself. No, wait, that's now.

 

[8XXX{0}====>]

Here's mine: The only broken bone I have ever had, I got when i tripped in the computer lab at school and broke my wrist on a table.

 

[kengar]

On the subway system here in Washington DC, many of the stations' platforms have these hexagonal tiles on the floor (you see where this is going, don't you?). Whenever I'm standing waiting for the train, I try to figure out facing/reach rules for the people on the platform with me and what their threat area is.

(yeah, yeah, I know d20 uses squares, but I played GURPS for years, ok?)

 

[NiTessine]

A single geekiest moment? That's a bit difficult, seeing as my entire life is an unending, solid block of geekiness. Some highlights are...

Having Lord of the Rings read to me as a bedtime story when I was only a year old.

Realizing one sunny day that I'd just spent the last fifteen hours playing a MUD... and then a week later seeing that character's 1000th playing hour.

Giving my girlfriend a miniature painted to her likeness (WotC's Lidda, if you're interested) as a birthday present.

Getting bored during the maths class and killing time by writing haiku poems about boredom.

Watching the entire first season of Babylon 5 in a single sitting.

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

On the subway system here in Washington DC, many of the stations' platforms have these hexagonal tiles on the floor (you see where this is going, don't you?). Whenever I'm standing waiting for the train, I try to figure out facing/reach rules for the people on the platform with me and what their threat area is.

(yeah, yeah, I know d20 uses squares, but I played GURPS for years, ok?)

The bathroom tiles in one of the bathrooms at college were exact replicas of Tetris pieces. I'll tell you, that provided hours of entertainment.

Still, my geekiest moment has to be the first time I can remember ever breaking the law. I was 8 or 9 years old, and I had just gotten the old green-and-white character sheets for 2nd edition...but blast it, the lines to write the info were so darn small. So...the next time I was in k-mart....I shoplifted a mechanical pencil. For the sole purpose of creating characters for a game I hadn't even played yet.

 

[Mercule]

Giving my girlfriend a miniature painted to her likeness (WotC's Lidda, if you're interested) as a birthday present.

Your girlfriend's a halfling? Cool!

I'm sorry to say my moment was today (or this is just at the forefront of my mind).

I was driving through an area of town I hadn't been to before. I noticed a street sign that read "Agin CT". I thought it was cute, humorous, and inventive.

Then I realized I'd probably have to make a long-distance phone call just to find somebody that would understand, let alone find it funny. (On the other hand, that could just be a sad statement about Americans.)

So, thanks for the thread, Talath. You saved me a buck.

 

[Moe Ronalds]

The day I created the Power Rangers diceless RPG on a messageboard I frequent. (Please join, we need people)
http://www.nightly.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=73;t=000121

There's also the time my friends and I tried out first gaming all-nighter, and spent the whole time playing the In My Pants Game (you name a movie, book, tv show, or similar thing, and then add the words in my pants to the end.)

Or the various times I've spent talking to a friend on IM when he was sitting just a few feet away.

 

[bwgwl]

After work, I drop by this particular gas station/convienance store to pick up a carbonated refreshment. On one shelf, they have your standard convienance items - markers, paper clips, motor oil, etc. In particular, they have a stack of 70 page notepads, the kind you write notes in at school.

Everytime I walk by that shelf and see those notepads, I get excited at the RPG related stuff I can write in them. It's almost a euphoric/adrenaline rush sort of thing.

heh, i do the same thing, but for graph paper.

when a department store nearby was going out of business and had everything reduced 75-90%, i must have bought about 6 or 7 pads of graph paper, just because i might need them for role-playing.

of course, i've been doing all my mapping with computer programs for several years now...

Mercule, that Agin Court thing is hilarious!

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

My geekiest moment came at a Star Trek convention in the south of England. Wait...being at the convention was not enough. Meeting a guy proudly showing off the scars on his replica Klingon weapon wasn't it either. Not even meeting a man who was more like Arnold Judas Rimmer than Chris Barrie himself.

No, my geekiest moment was learning the Bohemian Rhapsody dance...and doing it, oh, five or six times that night, getting increasingly drunk all the while.

Fun weekend.