What geeky things do you find cool?

In My Humble Opinion
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I hereby decree the following previously geeky activities to be cool:

  • Memorizing the digits of pi (3.1415926535897932…).
  • Conlanging.
  • Alternative history.
  • Cryptography.
  • Mathematics in strange bases.
  • Starcraft.
  • Astrophysics.

So, what sorts of geeky things are you all interested in? How many of those things are you willing to proudly admit you think are cool?

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*Footie pajamas
*Vanilla Dr Pepper floats
*Wishbone
*Fireworks, especially sparklers you hold in your hands
*Love’s Baby Soft

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  • Accounting
  • Big feet slippers, preferably in the shape of a raccoon
  • Reading your horoscope
  • Viewing the weather maps
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  • Watching the WeatherChannel for hours on end
  • Vienna Sausages
  • Watching the dog eat peanut butter
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I memorized the square roots of 2 and 3 when I was younger. Came in handy frequently in geometry, actually…

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  • Memorizing obscure values, like the diameter of Earth (12,756.3 km).
  • Board games, especially long complex ones like Monopoly and Risk
  • Having discussions and predictions on upcoming movie sequels (Star Wars, Matrix, etc)
  • Being over 12 and reading Harry Potter
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  • Memorizing pi
  • Magic: The Gathering
  • Thinkgeek.com T-shirts
  • Conlanging, definitely
  • Boffing

Of course, I’m biased. I’m a proud geek. :smiley:

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  • D&D
  • Renfests “Huzzah!”
  • reading sci-fi/fantasy/horror… well, just READING!
  • watching MP over and over and over and over…
  • watching LOTR over and over and…
  • playing online backgammon with my hunny bunny
  • dressing up for Cons, Renfests and the like.
  • reading fortunes with my tarot
  • reading dream/horoscope books
  • Ren & Stimpy
  • calling my hunny bunny “M’lord” at inappropriate times, you
    should see people’s faces!
  • keeping a journal for dreams and whatnot
  • Dead Can Dance CD’s
  • singing along to RHPS soundtracks
    Sheesh Imma freak!! Damn! WHOOOO HOO!
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-Using the phrase 1920’s style “Death Ray” whenever possible.
-Reading H.P. Lovecraft.
-Hi Opal!
-Memorizing all sorts of facts about controversial topics, so you can win any debate that comes up in coversation.
-Designing a Project Orion type spacecraft for fun.

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Old Atari systems.

So geeky and cool nothing else needs to be said.

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Hijack, sorry, but hey, have you heard the Dead Can Dance covers done by The Gathering ? Anneke has a great voice !

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-Astrophysics :wink:
-New gadgets :smiley:
-Board games like chess and backgammon.
-Old computers.

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My wife says pretty much anything I like must be geeky…

to list…

Computer fantasy adventure games
Collecting random bits of trivia about any subject (anybody here know that a person who collects trivia is a spermologist, unless that book I read was playing a sick joke)
Game Show Network
Quoting movies instead of having actualy conversations

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[ul]
[li]Using the command prompt on a Windows machine. I’m surprised by how many people don’t even know it exists, much less what it’s used for. “MS-DOS” is a completely foreign term to them.[/li][li]Counting in binary on my fingers (I can count to 31 on one hand, 1023 if I use two hands)[/li][li]Thinking up words that occur as hexadecimal strings (decade, bead, deaf, ace, etc.).[/li][li]I’ll second clayton_e on old Atari systems.[/li][/ul]

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Using PINE in a Unix window on my win2k machine to collect my email via a telnet to my university server

Listening to Public Radio

Trivial Pursuits

Going to Quiz Nights at the pub for just the quiz (ie staying sober and answering the questions)

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Well, my wife thinks I’m cool and one of the most interesting people she knows… and here is my list of things I do that some might think are geeky:

  1. Memorized pi to 100 decimals
  2. Constantly looking for puns to pull on her
  3. Hi Opal (Seriously… member of SDMB)
  4. Remember obscure facts
  5. Juggle
  6. Performing Magician
  7. Computer expert

And it’s because of these things (and a few others ;))that Mrs. D thinks I’m cool. I am truely blessed.

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Dreadful puns.
The thing that plugs in a trailer hitch receiver that has a propeller that spins in the wind.
Fedoras.
Fly fishing.
Folks who can draw all 50 states freehand.
Expert gardening.
Doing an owl’s call well enough to get a reply.
Computer wizards who can answer a naive question without sneering.
The word “exigesis” actually has something to do with Jesus.
Anyone who can beat me at Trivial Pursuit without me spotting them a wedge.

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-Comic Books
-LOTR
-Playstation2(Final Fantasy and Silent Hill!!)
-Cartoons/Animation
-Talking to myself when no one is around
-Singing in the shower
-Movie Geek
-Dialects
-A fan of Hip Hop since the 80’s even though I’m a white dude in his 30’s

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Um… SDMB??

-Having Geek as part of your name.
-What ** SanquineSpider** said.
-reading while my SO plays Morrowind (in the same room) and then switching.
-DungeonMastering
-Planning to open a Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Roleplaying bookstore
-Making minimum wage :frowning:

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Oh, and having not one but two Simpson’s sigs.