So, I bet I’m geekier than thou, come prove me wrong.
I set up a wiki on its own 3 letter domain (as in: rcp.net - but that isn’t it), password protected it, and I use it as my office away from home. I put homework, class notes, ideas, todos, cool articles, d&d stuff on the wiki and have easy access and easy modifiability anywhere I am.
Can you top that?
I bit the head off a live chicken.
I thoroughly enjoyed all three parts of the Matrix trilogy.
I will choose a Pop-Tart over a slice of real pie.
My first computer was a Timex Sinclair.
My first computer was a vic 20 with a tape player.
I still play dungeons and dragons 3.5 - and complain how it’s nothing compared to 1.0 on wizard’s message boards.
I operate my own domain and mail server for my World of Warcraft Guild - I am a female troll.
I have a picture of me dressed as Captain Kirk hugging a big Pikachu at 2004 Gen Con (I save all my books and badges - I’ve been to 11 of them)
I carry around a 1 GB flashdrive with: pdf’s of the core D&D rulebooks, a C64 emulator with 100 different disks, MAME32 with a few games, VB.NET programs, and an emulator to play Sam 'n Max hit the road no matter where I am (ok, the last one isn’t geeky, just a good idea.)
I relinquish my crown to you.
I play DnD, I carry a flash drive, I operate several domains, and I go to Cons, but I simply can’t compete.
Well done
You know, I’m sure someone else is going to come along and knock me out of the water - but when I was typing the part about the Captain Kirk and I looked at what I typed, I started getting a creepy feeling myself. But if you’re gonna be someone, it would have to be Captain Kirk I guess - so it’s not that geeky.
Either way, I play one hell of a cleric in all manifestations of RPG’s - including a priest in WoW. I do use the zip drive for work, but you never know when you may need to play Bard’s Tale or something.
this had me rolling!
Thanks, I’m here all week. Try the chicken.
Miller and I can double-team any solo geek on the board. Here’s a selected sampling of the stuff we did last weekend:
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[li]Watched “Justice League Unlimited”[/li][li]Watched two episodes of “Babylon 5,” from the second season[/li][li]Went to a comic book/sci fi convention[/li][li]Bought a bunch of trade paperback comic books and comic book related T-shirts (one flying monkey shirt, one B.P.R.D. shirt)[/li][li]Got into a debate about whether liking Liam Neeson as an actor was better or worse than being able to recognize the theme music from “Inyuasha”[/li][li]Took a friend to the Apple store and helped her buy a laptop, explaining processor speed, hard drive capacity, and wireless networking[/li][li]Played about 4 hours’ worth of a tabletop role-playing game[/li][li]Watched Napoleon Dynamite, continued referencing the movie where appropriate[/li][li]Watched two more episodes of “Babylon 5”[/li][li]Played World of Warcraft side-by-side for about three or four hours before going to bed[/li][/ul]
And if people say that this is the “lifestyle choice” that we should be ashamed of, then… then… they might have a point there, actually.
I was going to say that I’ve done my own PowerPoint presentation on implementing PowerPoint Rangers [sub]a sort of inside military joke[/sub], but half of you have me beat already. 
Tripler
I’m definitely a geek. I’m just a geek with a rifle.
I thought I had a great idea for a solving a problem in Perl, and five minutes later, Randal Schwartz, the guy who quite literally wrote the book on Perl, gave me a far superior solution. And it was one of the coolest moments ever.
Damn, that’s geeky.
I know the exact feeling.
I took a class last semester under a guy named Thad Starner, I remember being in middle school and seeing him on 60 minutes. For those of you who don’t know, he’s a guy who pioneered wearable computers and is one the forefront of AI development. After the first day of class I went down and shook his hand after class.
Such a cool moment, to meet someone who I had seen on tv about an area I was interested in.
In my sleep. One of my servers upstairs hosts six websites (including two wikis), and the other one hosts two more. There’s also a Windows 2000 domain controller running up there so we can test things on it without endangering a production environment.
I spent several hours last weeking writing code to screenscrape an online game I play so I could automate some of the regular things I do. This is the third online game I’ve done this for.
The bookshelf next to my desk has a shelf that’s nearly completely filled with O’Reilly books. I have a CD copy of the Microsoft Windows XP SDK ordered directly from Microsoft for $5.
Millions of people across the world use my code every day.
By the way, people, please don’t confuse “nerd” with “geek”. Carrying around scans of D&D gamebooks and dressing up as Captain Kirk is solid “nerd” material. It doesn’t make you geeky.
Does debating the difference make you nerdy or geeky?
Anyway, I’m sitting here in my office which is lit by the glow of hundreds of LEDs. I can see eight computer screens from where I am, (nine if you count the Mitsubishi camera phone, if you’ve got one, call me) five of which are hooked up and running something right now. The little Global Village NewsCatcher pyramid fits in well with the antiques and junk of the computer age. Three of my scavenged computers are here to run Doom in that left-center-right configuration that I found so cool back in '90 something.
Right now I am trying very hard to forget I saw three Ricoh copiers in a dumpster this afternoon. I will not take the van and scanvenge them, even though I know I could make one good one out of three, I just know it! I have enough stuff, I must resist.
Damn, three copiers just sitting there. I could always take them back if it doesn’t work out…
They’re fairly synonymous but “geek” implies expertise in some technical area. Nerds are socially inept, period. “Computer geek” beats “computer nerd” more than 4 to 1 in a Googlefight. same with just geeks and nerds as single terms.
Wow. Nerds are unpopular.
I think SolGrundy and Miller win, just because they are so geeky that even though they have an S.O., which many many geeks do not, they were too busy being geeky to have sex.
KellyM, you get my vote for geek with the biggest penis.
Excuse the hijack, but until today I have never heard the term ‘wiki’ and now I’ve seen it three times in the past four hours.
What’s a wiki?
I can code in HTML and BASIC
I can disassemble and reassemble nearly any laptop or desktop computer
I can pick pin and wafer tumbler locks
I can manipulate combination locks
I can do plumbing
I can do woodworking
I can do electrical
I can do phone systems
I can do networking
I can do hunting
I can do camping/hiking/backpacking
I can do automotive work
I can do relationship counseling (but not on my own relationships)
I can do drinking
I am socially inept
I am all that is man!
I don’t think I can compete with some of you here. But I’ve got some geeky streaks in me.
I collect soundtracks, and currently have 1031 pieces (won’t call them “songs” because most of them don’t have singing in them) by film composer Jerry Goldsmith in my iTunes playlist. I’m building up my Ennio Morricone collection—have 191 pieces in iTunes by him, and have more CDs on the way. Have a total of 1914 pieces in iTunes, the majority of it film music. (Obviously.) I have all the Star Trek scores by Jerry Goldsmith, natch. (I added the Star Trek reference to gain geekiness points.)
I collect domain names as a hobby. It’s fun. I also have enjoyed shopping for web hosts, the way some girls enjoy shopping for shoes. Only that web hosts have gotten so plentiful and just about anyone can set up a web hosting company, so it’s hard to find a good one. I have had terrible trouble with one of my hosts (curse you gazzin.com! :shakes fist: ) so I’m shopping around for a new one. (I think I’ve found a good candidate, finally. Thank goodness.) This weekend has been Web Hosting Hell for me, searching and searching and searching for a good host. I even had a dream last night about web hosting. That’s geeky.
Okay, that’s all for now.
Um… No comment.
Again, no comment.