What geeky things do you find cool?

In My Humble Opinion
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I’ll second most of what’s already been mentioned, especially conlanging, math in odd bases, cartoons and animation, and cool obscure music that CFNY used to play when they were still good (like Dead Can Dance and Sigur Ros). I’ll add…

Digital radio.
Telephone numbering.
The ZX81.
The Amiga.
The Commodore PET and its descendants.
Shared-universe fiction, especially that of the Devilbunny Wars.
:slight_smile:

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Maybe, although it is not the standard definition. The standard definition of spermologist is one that collects seeds. Still, some insist that an alternate definition is one that collects “seeds of knowledge”.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum9/6075.htm

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Just about everything I’m into is geeky (or, as my brother would have it, dorky).

  • Major logophile (word nerd). Puns, wordplay, puzzles, languages, accents, etymologies.
  • Classical music, listening and performing. I sing with a Gilbert & Sullivan Company. How’s that for geeky?
  • Ancient history, military history, anything remotely Roman or medieval. Renn Faires and SCA events appeal to my intellectual passions, as well as being a cleavage-aficionado’s paradise.
  • Not a huge fantasy freak but I am a Tolkien nut and an out-of-the-closet Potterhead.
  • Occasional RPGs. (No, not rocket-propelled grenades. But you knew that)
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I forgot to mention I’m also a licensed amateur radio operator. :smiley:

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As Tom Lehrer once said: “Base Eight is EXACTLY like Base Ten…if you’re missing two fingers!”

And I’m a licensed amateur operator as well. It’s too cool.

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[ul]
[li] Using the [list] tag when everyone else uses “-” or “1)” :D[/li][li] Memorising pi[/li][li] Astronomy and cosmology, definitely.[/li][li] Dinosaurs![/li][li] Puns[/li][li] Reading up on contemporary history[/li][/ul]

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For those of you who like strange bases, you should read West of Eden by Harry Harrison. I kept thinking that the numbers were wrong then I realized that the reptile race had only 8 fingers so they used base 8.

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I’ve hidden some of my geekiness from my GF.

  • Old school GURPS and AD&D on paper player
  • Owns every Star Wars book up until the lastest ones
  • Uses the command prompt to manage files
  • Bought a Playstation to play Final Fantasy Tactics
  • Read and owns every book from Terry Pratchett (including DVDs)
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  • LAN parties
  • NPR
  • Obsessed with Wild America or any nature show for that matter.
  • And just like Badmana, i bought a PS2 solely for the purpose of playing Robotech and nothing else.
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  • reading glasses
  • computer tech manuals
  • watching archeology shows on tv
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Not yet I haven’t… thanks!

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I am a legally ordained Reverend, BTW ahem!

Tres geek!

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Très geek.

Correcting people’s spelling to make myself feel better about… myself

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heh. Austin Powersness.

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Personally I think memorizing Euler’s number to 100 digits is much cooler than memorizing Pi.

That, and those phone phreak boxes.

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Lan Parties
Wanting to own an El Camino
Playing MMORPGs an insane amount
Building my own computers
Owning a soldering gun
Having my computer worth more than anything else I own

Thats about it for now… I also find binary jokes and those geeky t-shirts funny as hell. And when people say WooT IRL, lol

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-SCA
-Esperanto
-tarot cards
-tweed, with reinforced elbows
-Scrabble

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LOTR
Babylon 5
My husband,Drachillix
SDMB

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Lord of the Rings
Ancient Civilizations (I am by no means an expert, just think they’re neat)
studying updates on movies in pre-production

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Unix/Linux
Perl