What has been your geekiest moment?

[awayfarer]

It was at my last job. I was a forklift operator and I had just brought my lift over to the battery changing area to, you guessed it, change a battery. The batteries on these machines are large and weigh about a ton. You need another, smaller, machine to pull the old battery out and get the fresh one off the rack.

I pulled out the old battery with no problem. I wasn't exactly on the ball that day and it took quite a few passes with the machine to line up to get the fresh battery off the rack. The maintenance guy for the building walks past and says "Are you taking 20?"

I hadn't thought that he was a gamer so I was sort of surprised. Turns out it was actually just a bit of confusion. The batteries are numbered. The one I was going for was #20. I ended up trying to explain the situation to him but I'm pretty sure he just thought I was weird.

 

[Zweihänder]

Wow, these all make me feel good about my geekiest action; specifically, that I spent $90 on A Game Of Thrones cards without knowing the system or anyone else who played. I never found anyone to play with, either. I tried to teach a few people, but... no dice.

 

[DerHauptman]

Sometimes in the Army people are put in command of units out of need not in their particular field.

I (Special Forces Officer) was given command of a Military Intelligence Unit. Soldier in MI units while sometimes smarter than others tend to over analyze even the simplest of missions and complicate things with excessive committee type decision making meetings.

Heading out late one night, walking through the barracks as I did on all nights to check on the younger soldiers welfare, I overheard a couple of the NCO's talking about Star Trek - later that night I had an idea that lead to me being a very successful commander in that unit.

I had been having a hard time making people in the unit understand my intent and my leadership style seemed foreign to them. I think that while they were used to one particular leadership style (Latter I described it as The Piccard Style), I because of the nature of my background did things a totally different way. (Later the Kirk Style)

I simply and frankly, thinking all along that they might think me a little eccentric, started describing things to my senior NCO's that I was more used to a more directing type style like Kirk instead of the more participative style of Piccard.

In that unit full of MI geeks it worked like a charm no one batted an eye about it....

From then on in the unit the question I asked all the NCO's to consider before briefing me or planning some event for me was "What do you think Captain Kirk Do.

We used old Star Trek episodes for NCO professional development on leadership (yea I let them use some new ones too...but only with protest). We'd study them for lessons to teach the troops and observations on leadership etc.

We all communicated well after that and when we were asked to come up with a New Company Motto they Came up with....

The WWiCKeD Ones.

Which came from the t-shirts they had made at one point for a Battalion Fun Run that said .....

WWCKD

What Would Captain Kirk Do

How's that for beeing a GEEK?

DH-

 

[Dragonfriend]

Oh Great!

 

[Aeric]

I glued some dice onto a 3-D collage for my Design class midterm a few weeks ago. It took me longer to decide which dice to use than the rest of the project combined.

I had a near-geek experience at Fry's Electronics the other night. I was waiting in line behind two guys who could easily have been members of the Geek Squad (white, short-sleeved shirts, black slacks, glasses). One was buying an Xbox game called Dead Rising, which involves a reporter trapped in a mall full of zombies. His friend commented that the game was dumb, that all they did was take the best scene out of Day of the Dead and make a game out of it. I was soooo tempted to correct him--the mall was in Dawn of the Dead, not Day of the Dead, and it wasn't just a scene, it was practically the entire movie--but I bit my tongue and said nothing. I felt a little bit like the owner of the Android's Dungeon in the Simpsons at that moment.

 

[Aurora]

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?"

I bow before you....

And AWAYFARER,
I almost fell off my chair laughing at that one.

None of my geeky moments even compare to these!

 

[diaglo]

How's that for being a GEEK?

very respectable. although, i'm not sure who this piccard guy is....

there is only one Captain of the Enterprise.

 

[Tetsubo]

My wedding.

My wife-to-be allowed me to carry my knife but drew the line at my belt pouch (SwissTool multitool, Inova X5 flashlight, SwissCard multitool, Swiss Army Pen, firestarter) during our vows. Once the ceremony was over I put the pouch back on. As I was wandering around the hall talking to people a friend calls out my name. I head over to him. He asks if I have a flashlight on me he could use. I say yes and reach for my belt pouch. The table cracks up in laughter and he says he really doesn't need a light.

I guess no one believed him when he told them I ALWAYS have a flashlight at hand... My wife says I wear a "utility belt"... knife, belt pouch, watch on belt loop, cellphone, wallet, coins and cash... I just like to be prepared...

 

[Halivar]

very respectable. although, i'm not sure who this piccard guy is....

there is only one Captain of the Enterprise.

You must be referring to Captain Christopher Pike.

*Boop!* *Boop!*

 

[cmanos]

Got the Gargantuan Black Dragon figure, took a pictur eof me with it and sent it out to my group with the Subject being "My new bouncing baby..."