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What makes you geeky?


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Have you seen mine postcount?? ;)

Other then gaming, there is the usually big fan of most things sci fi and fantasy related. There is my love for filks, good filks.

edit: I also refernce movies and books are not familar with or at the very least don't even realize I'm referencing something. It's all about the self amusement.
 
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Small I know.... but some of us just aren't geeky enough I guess.

1) convincing my science club teacher that it was a valid way to use school money to drive four hours and hit the 30 year Star Trek convention in Huntsville :)

2) convincing my Orch teach that since Star Trek and my high school both had big anniversaries in one year (30 for ST/90 for my HS) we should play the medley of various ST score music at our year end concert.

4) getting dice earings as a present from good friends, and wearing them for normal things like work. Actually a good start to a conversation.

5) and all those small ones that most of us do to express out geekyiness daily :)
 

Piratecat said:
I bite the heads off of chickens.

Thank you, Kevin.

That is what geek is ALL about. Maybe a little sword-swallowing, eating bugs and so on... but really it is ALL about biting the heads off of chickens.

Gelfling #1's uncle Slug is a bona fide geek.
 


What makes me geeky:

I am a Gamer. ;)
I study Computer Science / I am a computer programmer.
I have 5 computers. (most of them barely worth $20)
I also study Theology - many just can't believe that when they see me.
I have a pet: a cat named 'Putin'
I visit Slashdot.org and enworld.org
I read userfriendly.org and Order of the stick online comics
I own a longsword
 

What makes me geeky:
I am a DM and Player of D&D.
I've played D&D more than half my life.
I think about D&D when I'm not playing.
I know the difference between Star Trek and Star Wars.
And I have profound, well-thought-out opinions about who would win in a blaster/phaser firefight. (Rebel Alliance beats NGEnterprise beats Stormtroopers, hands down)
I program computers to do funny things.
I know the significance of 42.
I can pronounce prestidigitation.
My nickname on the 7th grade basketball team was "Talented".
Because I wasn't.
I know why the Starship Enterprise keeps "Star Trekkin', across the universe..."
I tried to convince my wife to name our first child after my current character.
I have friends with CHA scores below 10.
I think about my friends in D&D attribute terms.
I've been quoted in a professionally written, mainstream article about the 30th anniversary of D&D.
I quote that quote in my sig.
My wife vetoed my idea to wear a sword at my wedding.
Mostly because she was afraid I would poke someone's eye out with it.



Yeah. I'm a geek. :o
 

Piratecat said:
I bite the heads off of chickens.
That wasn't geeky when Ozzy did it to bats -- it was k3wl.

My wife always said I was geeky when I used to meet her where she worked while we were engaged (she was a manager at an Arby's, and I got to get a lot of free food) with a copy of In Search of the Indo-Europeans by J.P. Mallory, that I had bought because I liked to reread it so much.

And of course, my fascination with linguistics was directly inspired by reading Tolkien long before anyone had thought of making the movies.
 

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