# How Geeky Are You **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 14, 2001, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323 "2001-11-14T15:26:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yumanite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b487fb/32.png) [@Yumanite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumanite)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/21 "2001-11-15T04:45:19Z")
2.718281828459045. . . Geeky enough, **ultrafilter**? ---
**Author:** ![Corrvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@Corrvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corrvin)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/22 "2001-11-15T05:07:34Z")
,3.1415926532754 At least ten of those are correct. I haven’t bothered in a while to memorize more of pi than is necessary for a cool party trick. \>\> 3.141592653589793238462643383279… But, um, yeah, I know cooler party tricks too. How geeky am I? So I’m standing out on the smoke porch at work with my boyfriend. We’re both lost in thought. Suddenly, our eyes meet…the following conversation ensues. –Whatcha thinkin’ about? –Thinking about what I want to do with you tonight… –What’s that? –I need your help getting the network set up so I can get to your computer from mine. –Oh. Okay. Wanna do anything special after that? –Yeah, I figured we’d play computer games until bedtime. :::snicker::: Corr ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/23 "2001-11-15T05:44:37Z")
Tygr - when I was in HS, I worked printing napkins. For a long time I could name any font I saw that I was familiar with (and we had several standard fonts). I still hate Parisian (I think that’s the right name) because the set we had was in such bad shape. Do you know what the font for the banner is? It looks awfully familiar. I want to say New York or Manhattan. ---
**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/24 "2001-11-15T08:54:12Z")
I turned 32 this last week. Mrs. Tonk was ribbing me about what an old man I’m becoming, as this is the first time she remembers having to buy two boxes of candles for my birthday cake. With incredible restraint, I refrained from explaining to her that if she were capable of counting in binary, she could have represented the value 32 with only five lit candles. (thats 5 bits in the ‘on’ state.) [sub]Soon enough some other geek is gonna remind me that binary starts at zero and 11111 in binary is really 31. But since people don’t have parties for their zeroth birthday, I started counting at one.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/25 "2001-11-15T19:54:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KimKatt \* > FYI, I just sent you money. Woo hoo! Two bucks! Now I can buy a burger at McDonalds! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/26 "2001-11-15T22:51:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zyada \* > \*\*Do you know what the font for the banner is? It looks awfully familiar. I want to say New York or Manhattan. \*\* Well, I’d always thought it was just a stretched out version of Impact, but now that I think about it, the “S” is different. And the New York I know is used as a Mac system font - it’s a thin-stroked serif font. Dang, Z, now that’s gonna bug me until I track it down. Souldn’t be too difficult to find. Then again, nowadays, with desktop publishing applications so common, everybody fancies himself a fontographer, so there’s a horrible glut. That’s also why upwards of 90% of the new fonts out now are Butt-Ugly Fonts™. Then you get the yahoo that thinks he’s the second-coming of Nicolas Jenson himself, just because he moved the serifs a half-point on the lower-case “c” in Times Roman and renamed the entire font after himself. Parisian, huh? Yeah, that’s a fairly popular art deco font, though it’s limited in its usefulness. Like where I’m at now, designing pieces aimed at management-level of the construction industry, there’s really not much call for such a light typeface. Sheesh… just read over what I’ve written so far. NOW do y’all believe I’m a font geek? I think about it, though. I figure I’ve got a fair amount of geekiness in the breadth, if not the depth. I mean, I’ve got nothing like **Max** ’s or **Venus** ’s amount of gaming cards. But I do own one set of cards for the RAGE game (based on Werewolf: The Apocalypse, IIRC). I’ve got quite a bit of Star Wars stuff, though I’m nowhere near **SPOOFE** levels. I follow Star Trek, Buffy, X-Files, Farscape. Collect comic books and the occasional action figure. So see? Not that deep in the geekiness, but a fairly wide gamut. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/27 "2001-11-15T23:29:08Z")
Tygr - I found the font I was remembering - it is called “Empire” (Empire State Building -\> NY, eh?) However this font has a slightly different G. [myfont.com](http://myfont.com) has a good search engine. And remember that my job was printing napkins, like you see at weddings. Decorative fonts such as Parisian were more useful than readable fonts. We also had Raleigh, Brush, Broadway, etc. You may be a font geek, but I either like fonts or geeks, because I enjoyed your posts. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2001, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/28 "2001-11-15T23:36:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Yumanite \* > \*\*2.718281828459045. . . > > Geeky enough, **ultrafilter**? \*\* That’s e, not Euler’s constant [sym]g[/sym], which is approximately equal to .5772156649… ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/29 "2001-11-16T00:04:55Z")
I trip over my own feet and fall down. A lot. Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![cantatrice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@cantatrice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantatrice)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/30 "2001-11-16T01:31:52Z")
On family car trips I amuse myself by coming up with assembly language mnemonics for license plates, eg HCF-\>Halt and Catch Fire JBI-\>Jump to Bogus Instruction Can any other female geeks beat that? I dare you ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/31 "2001-11-16T01:34:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cantatrice \* > \*\*On family car trips I amuse myself by coming up with > assembly language mnemonics for license plates, eg > > HCF-\>Halt and Catch Fire > JBI-\>Jump to Bogus Instruction > > Can any other female geeks beat that? I dare you \*\* I’m gonna have to start doing that. btw, I love your mnemonic for HCF. ---
**Author:** ![cantatrice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@cantatrice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantatrice)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/32 "2001-11-16T01:44:16Z")
By the way, pi and e are nothin. How many well-known port assignments do you have memorized? e.g. 21-\>ftp 23-\>telnet My friend Jack claims that “chicks dig me because I can recite the first 300 well-known ports”. Pity he’s married ☹ ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/33 "2001-11-16T02:36:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Simetra \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by VenusProbe \* > > \*\*maybe even geekier than **Simetra**. 🙂 \*\* > > Non, c’est impossible! > > I’ve gone beyond case modding… which was fun at first… to actual board modding. That plexiglass window with the .15 fan in the side of your case looks cool, but all I’m looking at inside is a bunch of wires, resistors, capacitors, etc… > > Now, when your Motherboard is 6 different colors… > > G-d… I’m such a geek. > > Oh, and I know it to 9 places **Cloth**. > > Someone put me out of my misery. > > ☹ \*\* Here you go Simetra - Top this mod! [screaming skull mod](http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=77909585&m=8020990882) ---
**Author:** ![KingZoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KingZoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KingZoot)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/34 "2001-11-16T03:13:26Z")
D&D and Magic… They are cool enough… I am a Battle Tec addict. I do not play the Pc game, or the board game. I was up in Seattle and I was working for Wizards of the Coast at their flagship store. The store was actually a gaming center before Hasbro bought out Wizards and closed it down. Until then I spent 40 hours a week in the Pods. Yes Pods. Imagine climbing into a cockpit and sliding the hatch closed behind you. Imagine being completely surrounded by buttons and flashing lights. I can still see the blips on my radar closing in. I can still see my best friends Mec. being smoked by a newbie. Battle Tec with no computer players. It was a 3D battlefield in which we fought and died. //start withdrawal // _sob_ _shake_ _sob_ //end withdrawal // - Mec. Pilot Zoot Suit ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/35 "2001-11-16T03:32:59Z")
I read all your responses, thought, “Why, I’m not geeky at all, really,” and went back to the list of threads. However, when I came upon [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=99184) thread and got all excited, I realized I needed to post. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/36 "2001-11-16T03:59:36Z")
My best claim to geeky fame might be the set of operating systems I’ve got on my laptop. Around here, though, someone might have me beat. They’d have to work at it, though. Or possibly the number of different programs I’ve got installed, or perhaps the number I actually use. Naaah…the number of different FILEMAKER applications, that’s the ticket! That’s not the number of databases, mind you, but the number of different versions of the program software itself: FileMaker Pro 1.0 FileMaker Pro 2.0 FileMaker Pro 2.1 Macintosh FileMaker Pro for Windows 2.1 FileMaker Pro Server 2.1 FileMaker Pro 3.0 FileMaker Server 3.0 FileMaker Server 3.0 for Windows NT FileMaker Software Developer Kit 3.0 for Macintosh FileMaker Pro 4.0 Macintosh FileMaker Pro 4.1 Macintosh FileMaker Pro 4.0 for Windows FileMaker Developer Edition 4.0 for Macintosh FileMaker Developer Edition 4.0 for Windows FileMaker Pro 5.0 for Macintosh FileMaker Pro 5.0 for Windows FileMaker Server 5.0 for Macintosh FileMaker Server 5.0 for Windows NT FileMaker Developer Tool 5.0 for Macintosh FileMaker Developer Tool 5.0 for Windows FileMaker Pro 5.5 for Macintosh FileMaker Pro 5.5 for Windows Filemaker Pro 5.5 for MacOS X [sup][sub]I am not a one-trick pony, though…I also have a copy of Excel 5.0 right here on the same hard disk…[/sub][/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Yumanite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b487fb/32.png) [@Yumanite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumanite)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/37 "2001-11-16T17:10:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ultrafilter \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Yumanite \* > > \*\*2.718281828459045. . . > > > > Geeky enough, **ultrafilter**? \*\* > > That’s e, not Euler’s constant [sym]g[/sym], which is approximately equal to .5772156649… \*\* Actually, I knew that – it was a ploy to demonstrate how geeky I truly am (in the socially inept sense, at least). [sub](guess I didn’t read carefully enough)[/sub] :o ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/38 "2001-11-16T17:33:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AHunter3 \* > \*\* > FileMaker Pro 1.0 > FileMaker Pro 2.0 > FileMaker Pro 2.1 Macintosh > FileMaker Pro for Windows 2.1 > FileMaker Pro Server 2.1 > FileMaker Pro 3.0 > FileMaker Server 3.0 > FileMaker Server 3.0 for Windows NT > FileMaker Software Developer Kit 3.0 for Macintosh > FileMaker Pro 4.0 Macintosh > FileMaker Pro 4.1 Macintosh > FileMaker Pro 4.0 for Windows > FileMaker Developer Edition 4.0 for Macintosh > FileMaker Developer Edition 4.0 for Windows > FileMaker Pro 5.0 for Macintosh > FileMaker Pro 5.0 for Windows > FileMaker Server 5.0 for Macintosh > FileMaker Server 5.0 for Windows NT > FileMaker Developer Tool 5.0 for Macintosh > FileMaker Developer Tool 5.0 for Windows > FileMaker Pro 5.5 for Macintosh > FileMaker Pro 5.5 for Windows > Filemaker Pro 5.5 for MacOS X > \*\* I would like to announce that the act of typing up the above makes for geekiness of the highest order. Congratulations. ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323/39 "2001-11-16T20:48:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zyada \* > Tygr - I found the font I was remembering - it is called “Empire” (Empire State Building -\> NY, eh?) Ah, yes. That DOES ring a distant bell. I actually seem to remember thinking it looked like Impact a few years ago when I used it… > [@](#): > > You may be a font geek, but I either like fonts or geeks, because I enjoyed your posts. 😃 :: Doffs his hat and bows with a flourish :: I live but to entertain. 🙂 Hmm, striking such a minstrel-esque pose reminds me… One area of geekiness I have yet to branch into - Never yet attended a Rennaissance Faire, much less in costume. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-geeky-are-you/93323.md?page=1)