What has been your geekiest moment?

[Cedric]

The Star Trek the Next Generation collectable card game had just come out recently...and of course, my friends and I had bought quite a bit of it and were having fun with it.

Not long after that the first of the next generation Star Trek movies came out...Generations, and we'd gotten prescreening passes to go see it.

So here we are, sitting in the back of the theatre watching the movie...and picard says, I'd asked Commander Data to join me in some Stellar Cartography...

And I said, But...Data doesn't HAVE Stellar Cartography.

Stellar Cartography is an ability in the card game...and Data had a LOT of abilities, that wasn't one of them. People I didn't know threw popcorn at me...my friends did too.

It was a stellar geek moment.

 

[MadMaxim]

The whole group was out bowling one evening and we all started talking about how to assign D&D terms to bowling, whether one person's bowling ball had the impact special ability when he/she got strikes all the time, whether some of us were using too much BAB on Power Attack when the ball went into the gutter and how all the balls seemed to have the returning special ability. A very geeky moment, indeed...

 

[Ghendar]

I was in a meeting at work. We were discussing barcodes on doucments. I said that all forms called form X should have a barcode that read the doc as form X for simplicity sake.

I tried to emphasize it up by saying, "One barcode to scan them all"

No one got it but it just might have been my greatest geek moment.

 

[Ghendar]

It occurs to me that i had another highly geeky moment. I was on another message board having a discussion about who would win in a fight, the Borg or the Empire (star wars). Could a Death Star destroy a Borg cube etc, etc.

Mind you, that particular message board had nothing to do with either Star Wars or Star Trek.

 

[MojoGM]

I was talking to a non-gaming co-worker when he said something about being caught "flat-footed".

I replied "Well, then you lose your DeX bonus to AC and a rogue can get sneak attack damage on you."

he said "huh?"

 

[Kunimatyu]

The geekiest thing was probably ordering the latest release of D&D Miniatures and having them sent directly to the research station out in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Huw]

I designed an instruction set for a theoretical stack-based computer (no registers), and wrote a C-compiler for it. Then I wrote a LISP-interpreter in the C-compiler.

I've done that twice

I am such a loser.

EDIT: Now, as it turns out, seven years later, there is new significant research into stack-based computing. I'm not just a geek, I'm ahead of my time.

Stacks are cool. Lambda functions are cooler, but stacks are close.

 

[atomn]

"How were we not the stars of that movie?"

My friend and I shared a geek moment as we and our non-nerd girlfriends were leaving the theatre after watching The 40-Year-Old Virgin. I (a comic book nerd) was explaining to my girlfriend that the framed Fantastic Four comic book that the main character had on his wall made no sense because it was a recent issue with nothing significant. "I have that comic. It was nothing. No one would ever frame it." As I started to explain further I heard my friend (a video gaming nerd) explain to his girlfriend how fake the movie was. Because the television showed the main character's friends as playing Mortal Combat but they were using PlayStation controllers. "Plus, they were just hitting buttons. The finishing moves are much more complex than that." Once we heard what each other were talking about, I wondered, "How do we even have girlfriends??"

 

[diaglo]

My friend and I shared a geek moment as we and our non-nerd girlfriends were leaving the theatre after watching The 40-Year-Old Virgin. I (a comic book nerd) was explaining to my girlfriend that the framed Fantastic Four comic book that the main character had on his wall made no sense because it was a recent issue with nothing significant. "I have that comic. It was nothing. No one would ever frame it." As I started to explain further I heard my friend (a video gaming nerd) explain to his girlfriend how fake the movie was. Because the television showed the main character's friends as playing Mortal Combat but they were using PlayStation controllers. "Plus, they were just hitting buttons. The finishing moves are much more complex than that." Once we heard what each other were talking about, I wondered, "How do we even have girlfriends??"

i went into the basement and pulled my Steve Austin action figure with Bionic Eye out of the storage box and showed it to my wife after seeing that movie.


edit: i also have 6 G.I. Joes, batman, robin, superman, aquaman, and the complete SWAT action figures with 2 SWAT headquarters in that box. plus Mork & Mindy and Grease trading card sets... and so, so, so much more. my parents saved all of my toys from when i was a kid and when i got married they offloaded most of them on me. though, my nephew got all my Star Wars stuff

 

[Halivar]

Stacks are cool. Lambda functions are cooler, but stacks are close.

Ok, ok. In the interest of full disclosure, my LISP interpreter did not have a working implementation of lambda functions.