ghettognome
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Wow Kid Socrates..... 
I especially like soundtracks for everything in the game. 
I especially like soundtracks for everything in the game. 
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What makes you geeky?
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Terath Ninir
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I have said, IRL, things like "w00t", "suxxors", "1337/leet", and "teh".
My daughter is named Ehlanna. (Spelling changed intentionally from the Greyhawk goddess 'cause I think it looks better this way.)
My son is named Corwin, after the main character of the first 5 Amber books. I actually like Corwin's son Merlin a lot more, but ain't no way I'd name a kid Merlin.
So what prize do I get for *my* geekiness? My kids were already going to hate me when they're teenagers, so the names don't really add anything to that.
My daughter is named Ehlanna. (Spelling changed intentionally from the Greyhawk goddess 'cause I think it looks better this way.)
My son is named Corwin, after the main character of the first 5 Amber books. I actually like Corwin's son Merlin a lot more, but ain't no way I'd name a kid Merlin.
So what prize do I get for *my* geekiness? My kids were already going to hate me when they're teenagers, so the names don't really add anything to that.
Pbartender
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die_kluge said:
Heh... Don't worry about it too much.
At our very, very best, we can make about one and a half trillionths of a spoonful of antimatter in an hour... And when we do it, it's a world record.
MrFilthyIke
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I can ditto Jerhico in a number of cases...
jerichothebard said:
MrFilthyIke
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mhacdebhandia said:
I also own that, extra geek points scored!
I know how to use a slide rule.
I orginzied line forming when Star Wars came out.
People at work call me to help with equipment failures, aka paper jams.
I know what collate means and I do it.
I know what deqauss means and I do it.
I have an Apple in my closet.
I orginzied line forming when Star Wars came out.
People at work call me to help with equipment failures, aka paper jams.
I know what collate means and I do it.
I know what deqauss means and I do it.
I have an Apple in my closet.
Pbartender
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I was resetting my alarm clock this afternoon, and it reminded me of an exceptionally geeky moment I had many, many years ago. Allow me to elucidate...
In college, I was a physics major. It was a long standing joke in our science/math department that none of the clocks in the science building ran at the same speed, much less showed the same (or even correct) time. One day, I was bored, and so came up with an experiment based on that fact...
Using my own wrist watch as a control, I periodically recorded the relative change in time of every clock in the math/science building, over a period of several hours. Based on these measurements, I calculated the relative speeds (in fractions of the speed of light) of the various classrooms and laboratories with respect to the hallway. I wrote up my results as a lab report, and pinned it up on the bulletin board, thinking it was a pretty amusing.
Sad thing is, most of the people who read it, got at least a chuckle out of it... We certainly were a Department of Geeks.
In college, I was a physics major. It was a long standing joke in our science/math department that none of the clocks in the science building ran at the same speed, much less showed the same (or even correct) time. One day, I was bored, and so came up with an experiment based on that fact...
Using my own wrist watch as a control, I periodically recorded the relative change in time of every clock in the math/science building, over a period of several hours. Based on these measurements, I calculated the relative speeds (in fractions of the speed of light) of the various classrooms and laboratories with respect to the hallway. I wrote up my results as a lab report, and pinned it up on the bulletin board, thinking it was a pretty amusing.
Sad thing is, most of the people who read it, got at least a chuckle out of it... We certainly were a Department of Geeks.
Sorry but no geek points here. A true geek learns words by reading them and never learns the correct pronunciation through social interaction. A proper geek will read the word and hear it in his head hundreds of time before he says it to anyone; if his pronunciation differs from that of others, he will know that the way it sounds in his head is correct.jerichothebard said:
