- my Alphagrip . By far.
- my HP pocket PC
- The fact that I have 5 computers and 7 LCD screens in my livingroom.
- My collection of Elzevirs.
- Myst CD Rom games 1-5
- Monty Python’s holy grail CD Rom
- William Shatner’s “Has Been”
- all of John Serrie’s CDs
- an 18th century spinning wheel
oh I can go on…but I probably won already.
oh heck why not…heres some more
A large specimen of malachite.
2 Balinese shadow puppets
12 chrome toasters c.1940-1960
an illuminated leaf from a book of hours c. 1330
an extensive comic book collection
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I could go on for hours…but I dont want to hog the thread anymore. Sorry
Thanks, I feel old enough already, having turned 29 two hours and 45 minutes ago. And I’m currently working my way through Zork (the original, before it was split into Zork 1 and Zork 2). I’m not sure if I’m more jealous of the Zorkmid or of the Hopper nanosecond.
Just this past week, I finally got around to getting to the used book store just south of downtown, here, and picked up a set of 1st edition AD&D, to go with the 2nd and 3rd I already had. Having all three has to count for something, I figure.
And I forgot to mention before, I also have a pocket multimeter, and Epsilon Orionis for the month of April, on the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Hanna Stardome.
oh and of course my magneplanar (vintage–MG1) speakers.
McCurdy and Bogen monaural tube amplifiers…not for guitars.
my Mackie 1202 mixer
a 1935 edison cylinder player and around 100 cylinders, mostly blue ambrose.
a c.1986 mac classic with image writer and front-power switch adapter
a texas instruments T199 in the original box
a Target Brownie Six-20
17th century spanish brass candlesticks
a completely dismantled ipod shuffle
a grundig mini world 100 PE pocket shortwave radio
My cell phone charger. It’s like a Swiss army knife version of a cell phone charger. It all folds up neatly and has a plug in for a car outlet, a regular wall outlet, a plug for a USB port, and if you’re nowhere near electricity, it’s also got a spot to plug in a 9volt battery. It comes with 6 or 7 adaptors for different types of cellphones.
I love it.
Not sure if it counts, but i just picked up a Nintendo Virtual Boy in a yard sale for $25, with the AC adapter and 4 game cartridges (Red Alarm, Galactic Pinball, Mario Clash, Mario Tennis)
Nerdy or not, the Virtual Boy is extremely under rated. I’ve got Clash, Tennis, and Wario World. I got mine free when the previous owner got tired of it.
The next time I get my apartment clean, I’ve got to borrow a camera so I can have a large set of labeled photographs for threads like this one.
Same here. Judging by friends’ reactions, the Latin and Greek translations of *Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone * are considered extremely nerdy.
My reproducing apparatus 
I’ve got a Quark Developers Camp sweatshirt and another one from X-Ray Magazine. I even occasisonally wear the former.
A diploma from Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters (taken from a Wizard magazine sometime in the early '90s). If I ever get an office, it’s going on the wall right between my journalism and law school degrees.
Other items on the list:
[ul]Digimon beanies.[/ul]
[ul]A Generation X T-shirt.[/ul]
[ul]A VHS copy of Transformers: the Movie.[/ul]
[ul]Assorted comics and anime DVDs.[/ul]
Xavier’s School For The Gifted t-shirt
Green Lantern Rings-
Mosaic premium
Alan Scott’s ring
Power Ring’s ring
An autographed copy of Penn & Teller’s “How to Play With Your Food”
A DVD boxed set of the entire Monty Python TV series.
An original Eon Products edition “Cosmic Encounter” game complete with all expansion sets.
An original Mayfair Games edition “Cosmic Encounter” game complete with all expansion sets.
A complete set of Emma Peel “Avengers” episodes on DVD.
I’d better stop there before I embarrass myself. If I haven’t already!
Ahh, what a great thread…all in close proximity to myself:
My completist collection of Frank Herbert stuff, including Dune: The Movie pop-up picture book, and National Lampoon’s Doon.
Sticker of the lizard from SUSE Linux.
Leather-bound Silmarillion with LOTR bookmark tassled with a gold replica One Ring dangling geekily over the spine.
MST3K fan club 8x10 photo of Joel and the bots.
Captain Kirk’s uniform hanging in the closet.
:smack:
Forgot to include on my list my collection of MST3K refrigerator magnets.
I have to revise my list. As of Monday, the nerdiest thing I own is a 2.0 ghz MacBook Pro. This thing rocks so hard I get light headed if I stand up too fast. Ripping a movie to iPod size used to take 10-12 hours on my g4 iBook…this does it in 40 minutes while doing a ton of other stuff. OBNerdyThing - it’s currently ripping Return of the King disk 2 to size for iPod playback.
Commemorative ring, 1939 World’s Fair.
*ADJUSTABLE * size band. {smugly smiles}
I want to stress that I did not get this thing solely to post about it to this thread…
…nevertheless, it was this thread that led me to discover (and thus to buy) this extremely geeky keyboard. It combines my love for the old school spring-loaded IBM keyboards from 15 years ago that clacked like thunder as I pounded away at 100 WPM (I still have the one that came with my IBM PS/2 50Z from 1990, though it’s completely covered in crud), along with the satisfaction of showing off that my keyboard is for touch typists only. (Including all the funny special characters needed to do C++, SQL and Perl coding.)
“Geeky” just has to be a subset of “nerdy”, doesn’t it?
Let’s see what I’ve got…
[ul]
[li]RioCar MP3 player (Linux-based, in-dash, dual-HDD 70GB total space)[/li][li]What I thought (until reading this thread) was an original D&D rule book (it’s a blue-cover, but it’s not the Basic book, which came out later)[/li][li]A complete set of AD&D 1st ed. rule books (not sure if I’ve got the Cthulhu version of Dieties and Demigods; pobably not)[/li][li]A Microman Gatchaman [/li][li]Many, many Star Wars MicroMachines[/li][li]A complete set of Valiant comics (in addition to an unholy number of other comics, this sub-set was the nerdiest I could think of right now)[/li][li]a Matt Wagner’s Grendel tie-dyed t-shirt[/li][li]a Death-row Marv action figure (from Sin City, years before the movie) [/li][li]Hunter Rose and Christine Spar statues and action figures (still on cards)[/li][li]a Sandman Arabian Nights statue [/li][li]a Crow statue (one of the first runs, without the cool jacket that came in the secon edition) [/li][li]a set of Sandman: The Endless PVC figures[/li][li]a set of PVC Grendel figures[/li][/ul]
A can (tin) of Prince Albert.
I still crack myself up when I look at it.