[hijack] Ooh! A fellow CTYer? Could it be? If so, what campuses/courses?
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having an IQ of 155 and never going to mensa meetings
spending days (and about £80) on putting coloured fans etc in my computer, then cutting out a window so you can see them
using phrases like ‘hax0r l33t’ IRL
that’s all i got for now…
I also lettered in chess freshman year, and got into the Letterman’s club because of it.
Sophomore year i was undefeated in team state (over four years i only lost 1 game at the team state championships) and got a huge gold medal
I’ve forgotten more about Star Trek than the entire population of china will ever know.
I’ve been up at midnight for episode 1, episode 2, Harry Potter 4 and 5.
I was nationally ranked in the Star Trek CCG and have beaten two different world champions
I’m a microbiologist, currently sequencing DNA for my job
I bought a textbook on invertebrate zoology to read for fun
I’m learning Japanese for fun
While learning Japanese i also took a Cantonese class
I’ve beaten 7 computer opponents on melee in Starcraft
MST3K tapes, some several generations in, i’ve given tapes to people (including dopers), and i own every episode through season 5, and most of them after that.
Godzilla movies
Korean Daikaiju movies, including APE
I’ve boughten japanese battle beasts off ebay
My room is full of books, they’ve overflown the bookcase and many have been mailed home to my mom, who houses my over 1000 books, including tons of sci-fi (including really old prints of jules verne and other authors), lots of cartoon books, and trek up the wazoo
i still have my transformers and know all their names and weapons, as well as knowing the weapons of any transformer i see from generation 1 while out at flea markets
Comic books and ancient Mad magazine also litter my room in boxes
I have most national geographics from now back to 1948
i have a t-shirt with the molecular structure of Viagra on it, as well as several free biotech company t-shirts with DNA and genetic stuff on them
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[li] I LARPed in High School. And I’d do it again (especially Buffy)![/li]
[li] I have sung the following songs in public, surrounded by strangers: Time Warp, the Trogdor theme, and Hot Tub of Love, written by my friends Dave and Jason with a guitar and some bongos[/li]
[li] I own all of the Buffy books (the adult ones, not the teen ones - you can tell the difference between them because the teen ones have purple covers), and I know them so well that I can reference them in casual conversation. People ask me who my favourite Slayer is and I say “Lucy Hanover” and they say “Huh?” and then I feel geeky and all is well.[/li]
[li] I own a copy of How The Grinch Stole Christmas in Latin.[/li]
[li] Some of my best friends are books.[/li]
[li] I was tested in Grade One and identified gifted. [/li]
[li] In high school, literally all of my guy friends wore black and read Manga, and all of my girl friends had (bottle) red hair and wrote poetry.[/li]
[li] We all loved school, especially Philosophy, Biology, History and English.[/li]
[li] One of my favourite books is Microserfs, because my friends and I identify with the characters so much.[/li]
[li] My best friend and I are hopelessly devoted to the thoughts, works and beliefs of the following people: Carl Jung, Carl Sagan, and Noam Chomsky.[/li]
[li] I would rather sit in a pub and talk with my friends than get all ho’ed up and gyrate in a deafening bar.[/li]
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Spend hours reading about obscure topics on the internet simply because I like learning.
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Throughout highschool, I would conduct experiments at my house to confirm the various physics principles learned about that day.
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I had to confirm Ohm’s Law for myself when I was like 10.
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I teach myself programming languages just for the fun of it.
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Of course, it goes without saying, I love MST3K
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And Dr. Who!
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I read the TV Guide to find out what’s on the History Channel, Discovery, TLC, Space, A&E a week ahead of time.
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A documentary on the erosionary processes that formed the Grand Canyon is “Must See TV”
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I stay up terribly late just to watch the cheesy sci-fi movies they show at night.
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I collect bread tags.
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And more than anything: I have a tesla coil in my basement
Whee, StrongBad! ::sings:: Burninating the peasants! Burninating the laaaaaannnnd!
::raises hand:: The ‘gifted youth’ camp I referred to in my own Geek List was CTY! I still have (and wear) the shirt. Creative Writing… ahh. Unfortunately, we only had the money to do it that one summer.
A geek among normals and a normal among geeks… story of my life. 
You are so busted!
Circular or slipstick?
If you do not answer, “both,” please do not reply.
http://www.metrodemontreal.com
I trust I need say no more.
(Okay, okay, there’s the Trek, and the anime, and Esperanto, and politics, and inventing languages, and worldbuilding, and designing cities, and that pretend kingdom I had when I was 14…)
- I took the ACTUAL SAT as a sophomore in high school (and I might add, I was 14 when I was a sophomore) and got a 1410…
-I drive a Hyundai
-I have a cell phone clip
-I can name the last twenty World Wrestling Federation champs.
I’m not a geek.
I’m a normal person who happens to be of slightly higher than average intelligence and eclectic tastes.
My friends call me a geek because I can memorize songs, movies, books, etc… in one hearing/viewing.
They also don’t get my math and/or psychology jokes.
I am a Trekker. I know more about Trek than all of Paramount/UPN.
When I grow up, I want to be The Doctor.
Oh yeah, straight A’s all through school (including the gifted/advanced classes) until my sr yr when I stopped caring. I made 2 B’s that year. Dropped out of college because of boredom and greed.
I was a school trouble maker, and I couldn’t be on stage during my HS graduation because of being suspended. (That kid’s broken arm was not my fault. The table just ended up on top of him for some unknown reason) They did let me graduate, though… THE FOOLS! Bwa ha ha ha ha!
But, I am not a geek. 
Am I?
Now that’s just silly. You have to go downstairs and fetch it every time you need it. I keep mine in the kitchen. 
I’m getting the impression that if we all listed everything about ourselves that someone has called geeky, this thread would hit a hundred pages.
Oh my god, you too?!?!?
I had one called Recent Argentina (looooooong story), and I wrote a Constitution, divided it into states and appointed Governors of said states, I even drew up documents on my PC and had them sign them.
Our state religion was Ashma, invented by my best friend Ashley and I, in which we worshipped the Supreme Being, Angelicusmolluskuseroticusgelatinous, which was embodied by the trinity of the Giant Squid, Madonna, and Jell-o. We had The Books Of Ashma, which were like our Bible. We even had Holy Days, which I (again) designated using a calendar program on the computer.
Ahhh… the geeky days of (as matt put it) worldbuilding…
wow, I’m geekier than even I thought.
Wow, a friend and I had a fake kingdom too.
Typically, country politics would be taken care of during 7th grade gym class. Art class gave us the opportunity to draw up election posters and geography class would set the scene for studying the latest population data.
ah, fun times.
Ooh! I came up with one!
I have star wars legos in my cubicle at work!
Yes, you are, Geek Boy!
I…
[ul][li]…have more computer books than I have art and music books.[/li][li]…have a lot of art and music books.[/li][li]My favourite classes in grade 13 high school were Calculus, Analysis, Relations and Functions, Physics, Chemistry, Art, and French.[/li][li]…was thrilled when we actually got to use Einstein’s Equation in chemistry.[/li][li]…took all my chemistry and physics notes in cartoon form. [/li][li]…was pissed becasure they cancelled German class for grade 12: not enough demand. I didn’t even get a refund.[/li][li]…would have taken Latin if they’d had it.[/li][li]…had to write a story in grade 10. To supplement it I drew a Map of the imaginary medievaloid country it took place in. This Map ended up being two metres tall and three metres long. It had thousands of little trees. The story was illustrated with cartoons. I ended up designing a modern version of the country, complete with postage stamps and a national airline. [/li][li]…wrote a sequel to the story for grade 11. [/li][li]…put another sequel to the story in the co-op newsletter when I was in grade 12 and 13.[/li][li]…read a lot of online cartoons.[/li][li]…was reading my sister’s grade-nine biology books in kindergarten.[/li][li]…was studying Architecture at university, but we had to take an introductory computer course, during which we had to write a program to display a clock on the screen. My best friend and I wrote a program that animated an invasion in ASCII, complete with aircraft dropping bombs, explosions, and then a bulldozer pushing the bodies away. Oh yeah, there was a clock in the corner. [/li][li]…had a cartoon in the school newspaper when I was studying electronics.[/li][li]…took all my electronics notes in my sketchbook. On occaision, I’d hand it in for writing assignments.[/li][li]…studied animation at Sherican College. For homework, we had to watch cartoons. :)[/li][li]…speak Esperanto.[/ul][/li]I’m too general to be a geek.
Well, I used to bite the heads off chickens…
…just kidding!
-I was promoted from kindergarten to second grade, due to my reading ability
-I was teased by other kids for knowing all the answers, and they were impressed and horrified that I read encyclopedias for fun
-I was also picked on for being a Trekker- in 1970, at the age of eight. It did not help my cause to be carrying my model phaser, tricorder and communicator to school.
-Playing wargames in the library was my pastime for study halls. When they put in a computer terminal to the local university I would stay after school to do Moon Lander.
-I have been a D&D Dungeon Master since 1980
-When the jocks played baseball, I played Strat-O-Matic baseball with my own All-Star teams
-I never had a girlfriend in high school
OK, a few that haven’t been mentioned yet:
I read Slavic linguistics, for fun
I own a copy of a statistical guide to the Soviet censuses (i.e. a collection of articles on how to read between the lines that aren’t there), which I did not buy for a class
A favorite hobby was building Tolkien characters out of Lego…throughout high school
When I was 3 years old, I used to amaze my mom by walking her through the Field Museum and naming all the dinosaurs in Latin
I came home crying one day from kindergarten, because the teacher brutally forced me to stop reading in the corner and go play with Playdoh, like the other kids
I’ve studied Georgian polyphony
The U.S. Government actually paid to send me to Siberia to stdy Russian for social science applications
I’ve seen Rocky Horror subtitled in Spanish, and yes, we did get up in the middle of Madrid and do the Time Warp, much to the befuddlement of the Spaniards in the audience…well, what could I do? My college dorm was 3 blocks from the 8th Street Playhouse, the location of the original Rocky Horror floor show, and we went there a lot.
I’m sure I can think of more later, but nothing compared to some of my even geekier friends…one of them actually named his eldest child after an Anime character. The sad part? His wife doesn’t even know it.