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[li]Model rocketry[/li][li]Radio-controlled planes, choppers, cars, and boats[/li][li]Classic console and arcade video game emulation on the PC[/li][li]Bizarre PC case modifications (like the guy who put an aquarium in his PC)[/li][li]CPU cooling with Vapor Phase change technology. In other words, a refrigerator in your PC.[/li][/ul]
Buying the Lord of the Rings books for the alphabets in the back (give me credit: I eventually read them, too).
Watching the original Star Trek series as a kid and memorizing the layout of the control panels so I could draw them out to play on and eventually build my own someday.
Listening to the music group RUSH in the 1970’s because they kicked ass, and not just because the popular kids at school had never heard of them.
Buying a first edition of the Pantographia because alphabets blow my visual circuits better than sex (I’ll admit, I haven’t done this one yet; I’m still settling for a reprint at this point, but it’s on my list).
Having the eternal hots for Kim Richards because when I was twelve she played a foxy telekinetic alien in Escape to Witch Mountain.
That geeky enough?
Knowing what are not valid switches for ls.
Happier in vi than Word, GUIs are for wimps.
Quoting Tom Lehrer (bonus points if you can sing/recite The Elements or AnalyticalAndAlgerbraicToplogyofLocallyEuclidianMetrizationof InfiniteDifferentialbyReimannianManifold*)
Double bonus for know what this means*
**Self referential footnotes
Yumblie wrote:
complex??? bwahahahahahaha…
-Inventing and playing homemade games of all sorts. This includes modifying the rules of previously-invented games. (For instance: inventing, printing out, and playing with alternate progress cards for Cities and Knights of Cataan, or playing Pictionary with words that the players themselves have submitted, which makes it zillions of times more fun.)
-Going to Florida to see a rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center
-Owning polyhedron-construction toys
-LEGOs
-Getting really excited that ESPN was actually broadcasting Scrabble yesterday
oh, and to add to my list of geeky things i like:
Stargate SG:1
Farscape
Can’t get enough of either show… 
YOU know what I meant, I don’t know how to put the accent on my typing yet… GAWD, leave the computer virgin alone!!! 
My geeky thing:
“The Last Farewell” by Roger Whittaker. Cheeseball Brit-easy-listening-pop-something song by Mr. Overenunciation.
For a white 30-something, this is as pathetic as Carlton liking Tom Jones on “Fresh Prince.”
(Damn! That’s TWO geeky things…)
- Reading the dictionary for fun
- Lederer’s The Joy of Lex
- The Fibonacci Sequence
ColecoVision.
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[li]Medieval Heraldry[/li][li] Star Wars Lego[/li][li]Hand-coding web pages in XHTML and CSS[/li][li]Still playing an RPG that’s been out print for over 20 years[sup][/sup][/li][/ul][sup][/sup]DragonQuest[sup][/sup]
[sup][/sup]No, 3rd Edition doesn’t count.
That’s so 1970’s, clayton_e. :rolleyes: Commodore 64 systems, real or via emulation, are the true ultimate classic game machines! 
QRZ ke3om. QTH?
I suppose using ham radio Q signs on a text forum counts as much as anything else that’s been listed.
As I look over this thread, I see that even with my ongoing work in interpersonal skills, I am in no immediate danger of forfeiting my geek card.
Forgot to mention the amateur radio, KC2IBN, here.
- Car Wars tournaments (three times a year!)
- Rejecting AD&D 3rd Edition… and going back to 1st ed. just for grins.
- Attending Styx, Yes, and Rush concerts
- Model Warship Combat
- Usenet
- Nethack
- Foxtrot
Slight hijack, but I had a friend from college who was recognized on the website and in a Settlers of Cataan manual for thinking up an alternate rule scheme. We were all so proud. 
Also interesting to see someone besides me doesn’t immediately think of the card game when they hear someone say, :The Gathering."
To add my own:
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[li]Webcomics[/li][li]Computer gaming[/li][li]Memorizing entire video games by heart and can know exactly where someone is in the game just by them describing the room.[/li][li]Going to renfairs and whatnot for both the cleavage factor of girls in chainmail and to see what neat swords/daggers/polearms/suits of armor are on sale.[/li][li]Going off for 15 minutes at a time talking about how awesome scythes are in DnD 3e compared to two-handed axes. Bonus points if the other person argues back about greatswords. :p[/li][li]Watching the History channel or Discovery channel for hours on end.[/li][/ul]
Knowing what the perfect ratio is