Olaf the Stout
Hero
Griffith Dragonlake said:
Really off-topic but why have your bachelor party the night before your wedding? I can't imagine the lack of sleep (and hangover for some people) does you much good on the wedding day.
Olaf the Stout
What has been your geekiest moment?
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Really off-topic but why have your bachelor party the night before your wedding? I can't imagine the lack of sleep (and hangover for some people) does you much good on the wedding day.
Olaf the Stout
BlueBlackRed
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Geekiest moment...well I'm certainly a gamer geek and have many small ones.
I think I've narrowed mine down to 2:
- My bachelor party was definitely geek-themed: I bought 2 boxes of magic boosters and had a couple draft tournaments with my friends.
- I spent $1000 on a laptop, sound mixer, and microphones to record our game sessions.
I'll let you all pick which one is geekier.
I think I've narrowed mine down to 2:
- My bachelor party was definitely geek-themed: I bought 2 boxes of magic boosters and had a couple draft tournaments with my friends.
- I spent $1000 on a laptop, sound mixer, and microphones to record our game sessions.
I'll let you all pick which one is geekier.
KingOfChaos
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Probably today when myself and the 1st class petty officer in charge of my school started talking about critical hit memories with about three master chiefs standing around us. 
Tsillanabor
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Yes, but she's the opposite of my wife and marriedHalivar said:
Zweihänder
First Post
Okay, here's another supergeek moment:
In my senior year of high school, I was in Advanced Placement Latin. That SHOULD be enough, but it gets better. For our final project, we were to film our interpretation of a poem. We chose one by Catullus, in which Catullus (played by my friend Liza) meets up with his friend Varus (played by myself), and chill. At one point, Catullus talks smack about my whore. Guess what happened? That's right, we busted out our Force-Effects Lightsabers and had at each other. The whore had a brief, poorly-dubbed interlude, and I died. I then had a dramatic aside in which I discussed the narrative technique that is a dramatic aside. We closed with Russian Technopop.
In my senior year of high school, I was in Advanced Placement Latin. That SHOULD be enough, but it gets better. For our final project, we were to film our interpretation of a poem. We chose one by Catullus, in which Catullus (played by my friend Liza) meets up with his friend Varus (played by myself), and chill. At one point, Catullus talks smack about my whore. Guess what happened? That's right, we busted out our Force-Effects Lightsabers and had at each other. The whore had a brief, poorly-dubbed interlude, and I died. I then had a dramatic aside in which I discussed the narrative technique that is a dramatic aside. We closed with Russian Technopop.
Man in the Funny Hat
Hero
Kept trying to think of D&D-related geekness until I started to read responses and mention was made of Phantom Menace.
I paid $500 to be at the premier/charity showing in Seattle at the newly refurbished Cinerama theater. Yeah, I was in the same theater with famous and important people like Paul Allen and Sen. John McCain, but it has taken over a decade to come to have any real tolerance of the DISAPPOINTMENT that was The Phantom Menace. I can ONLY console myself to this day by knowing that the money went to charity.
I didn't even get a marginally decent seat.
Edit #1: I have just remembered even more geekiness. Also Star Wars related. I lost count of the number of times I saw the original Star Wars - IN THE THEATER. When it hit 60 I lost accurate count and stopped really trying. It's definitely over 150 though. 120+ in the first run alone. There used to be two theaters in downtown Seattle right across the street from each other. After school let out we would drive down to a cheap parking lot nearby, catch a matinee of Star Wars, go across the street and catch the last matinee of Close Encounters of the Third Kind that started about 10 minutes after Star Wars let out. Total cost each time was probably about $5 each. I'm fairly sure I saw CE3K over 20 times that way.
Edit #2: I took this picture: http://home.earthlink.net/~duanevp/miniatures.htm
Edit #3: Last year I OCR'd my copy of Heroes of Legend, then fixed the spelling and table errors. I had last used that book... 10 years ago? I am not in danger of actually using it in the future. But I was wearing it out...
I paid $500 to be at the premier/charity showing in Seattle at the newly refurbished Cinerama theater. Yeah, I was in the same theater with famous and important people like Paul Allen and Sen. John McCain, but it has taken over a decade to come to have any real tolerance of the DISAPPOINTMENT that was The Phantom Menace. I can ONLY console myself to this day by knowing that the money went to charity.
I didn't even get a marginally decent seat.
Edit #1: I have just remembered even more geekiness. Also Star Wars related. I lost count of the number of times I saw the original Star Wars - IN THE THEATER. When it hit 60 I lost accurate count and stopped really trying. It's definitely over 150 though. 120+ in the first run alone. There used to be two theaters in downtown Seattle right across the street from each other. After school let out we would drive down to a cheap parking lot nearby, catch a matinee of Star Wars, go across the street and catch the last matinee of Close Encounters of the Third Kind that started about 10 minutes after Star Wars let out. Total cost each time was probably about $5 each. I'm fairly sure I saw CE3K over 20 times that way.
Edit #2: I took this picture: http://home.earthlink.net/~duanevp/miniatures.htm
Edit #3: Last year I OCR'd my copy of Heroes of Legend, then fixed the spelling and table errors. I had last used that book... 10 years ago? I am not in danger of actually using it in the future. But I was wearing it out...
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I was a brand-new 2nd lieutenant, in a missile training course in preparation for being an ICBM launch control officer. The instructor, an Air Force Captain, was explaining how to use a codebook that had different call signs in it. He was explaining that not all call signs were necessarily real words. "Here's one," he said, "HORTA. There's no such thing as a HORTA."
"That's not true, sir," I piped up from the back of the room. "A horta is a silicon-based life form that looks like a small boulder, as shown in the Star Trek episode 'Devil in the Dark.'"
The whole class turned around to stare at me in amazement - not only that I'd correct a senior officer on something so trivial, but also because I tended to be a pretty quiet guy back in those days (this was 1987), so speaking up in class like that was something of a rarity for me in any case.
Anyway, the instructor rolled his eyes, shook his head, thanked me for my contribution and said he stood corrected, and pressed on with the lesson plan. And I was branded a Star Trek geek by my entire graduating ICBM class.
Johnathan
"That's not true, sir," I piped up from the back of the room. "A horta is a silicon-based life form that looks like a small boulder, as shown in the Star Trek episode 'Devil in the Dark.'"
The whole class turned around to stare at me in amazement - not only that I'd correct a senior officer on something so trivial, but also because I tended to be a pretty quiet guy back in those days (this was 1987), so speaking up in class like that was something of a rarity for me in any case.
Anyway, the instructor rolled his eyes, shook his head, thanked me for my contribution and said he stood corrected, and pressed on with the lesson plan. And I was branded a Star Trek geek by my entire graduating ICBM class.
Johnathan
Gnome Quixote
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Geekiest moment for me? The district manager is leading a vice president on a tour of the store where I used to work. They pass my desk, and the district manager introduces me, and asks me to explain some specifics of a new program our store had implemented, which I was a part of. Halfway through my explanation, I hear a page over the loudspeakers for Alphonse to pick up a phone call on line one. Without batting an eye, I excuse myself and pick up the call.
Alphonse is not my name. It was, however, the name of the wood elf druid I played in EverQuest for about two years. Coincidentally, it was also the name of the vice president.
On the bright side, he thought it was pretty funny after I explained myself. It turned out he'd dabbled a bit in Ultima Online, so he knew where I was coming from. The district manager looked us both like we had lobsters crawling out of our ears, though.
Alphonse is not my name. It was, however, the name of the wood elf druid I played in EverQuest for about two years. Coincidentally, it was also the name of the vice president.
On the bright side, he thought it was pretty funny after I explained myself. It turned out he'd dabbled a bit in Ultima Online, so he knew where I was coming from. The district manager looked us both like we had lobsters crawling out of our ears, though.
PatrickLawinger
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My geekiest moment? Reading all of these posts and still thinking,
"Dear God, poor Diaglo, he made his wife camp out for the DnD Movie? Yeesh, he is going to be paying for that the rest of his life ..."
Okay, there might be a few other geeky moments in my past, I mean, I do write gaming books, so it is a possibility. I just keep thinking, I took my wife to the DnD movie (at the theater) several weeks after it came out, no lines, half-price afternoon showing, and, well, I am just plain sure that Diaglo is going to be paying for that the rest of his life
.
Patrick
PS. In case you can't tell, as far as I am concerned Diaglo wins, hands down. Then again, making it a "contest" probably means we all win, er, lose, er, something ...
"Dear God, poor Diaglo, he made his wife camp out for the DnD Movie? Yeesh, he is going to be paying for that the rest of his life ..."
Okay, there might be a few other geeky moments in my past, I mean, I do write gaming books, so it is a possibility. I just keep thinking, I took my wife to the DnD movie (at the theater) several weeks after it came out, no lines, half-price afternoon showing, and, well, I am just plain sure that Diaglo is going to be paying for that the rest of his life
.Patrick
PS. In case you can't tell, as far as I am concerned Diaglo wins, hands down. Then again, making it a "contest" probably means we all win, er, lose, er, something ...
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