It’s a fight to the finish! Prove you are the nerdiest among us by the completing of this simple phrase:
I’m so nerdy that. . . (Match Game peanut gallery chorus: how nerdy are you?)
Rules:
It must be a true statement.
It must be in the spirit of the thing, and not a sarcastic attempt to prove you ARE NOT nerdy.
If such sarcastic attempts are made, you will immediately have Ted McGinley added to the cast of your life, assuring that you will be cancelled by the network.
… I’ve been published in both Nuts & Volts and Blacklisted! 411 magazine.
… I wrote an operating system for a minicomputer in the late 1970s.
… I once rolled over the score and crashed Galaga.
… I played (and finished) Colossal Cave Adventure on a DECsystem 20.
… I programmed device drivers for an S-100 buss computer (the first “kit” home microcomputer and one of the smallest computers of its era) and ran logic simulators on a Cray 1 (the largest/fastest computer of its era)–in the same month!
… I play World of Warcraft and used to DM Dungeons & Dragons
… and I own a store that sells fuzzy D20s to hang from rearview mirrors! (I win)
My wife and I had a fight over how to calculate the pH change from dumping 20,000 lbs of sodium in a lake.
Here is a link to the video. It was in answering a question here on the Dope so there is also a thread if you can find it. No my wife does not post here though occasionally she lurks.
I’m so nerdy that every time I have started a thread about “my day at work” or “what I accomplished, hooray success story” or anything of that ilk, the thread sinks to the bottom of the pool w/o replies.
Once I was hanging out with some girly friends, helping them hook a new TV up to cable. They realized that they needed an antenna to coax adapator…or, I should say THEY realized they needed something that would allow the round cable with the thingie in the middle to connect to the 2 screws on the TV
I said " Let me check my purse" They all seemed to think this was a fine little joke and laughed, until I dug around in my purse and pulled out the exact part they needed. I did not remember how or why the part was in my purse in the first place.
Let me guess, the bag has a small label that reads “Made in Izbia” seems to have an infinite capacity for storing items, and you have no way of getting rid of it, it always comes back to you, it was a gift from your Aunt…