# What's the nerdiest thing about you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 28, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574 "2012-06-28T13:05:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/1 "2012-06-28T13:05:41Z")
After seeing the "what’s the most extraordinary thing you’ve posted about yourself.’ thread, I really wasn’t able to come up with anything that would really make me stand out…I’m smart and a big nerd, but that’s pretty common on these boards (and really, in life). Nothing big there. And then I thought…well, with a big bunch of nerds, what’s the nerdiest thing about them? So, Nerds Unite! What’s the nerdiest/geekiest thing about you? Me? I have a spreadsheet that lists every roller coaster I’ve ever ridden, including location, year built, speed, height, inversions, etc. Yes, I’m a nerd. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/2 "2012-06-28T13:23:36Z")
I have a shelf on my bookshelf that’s sagging to the point of breaking under the weight of a role-playing game’s rulebooks. ---
**Author:** ![DeepLiquid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deepliquid/32/14893_2.png) [@DeepLiquid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepLiquid)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/3 "2012-06-28T13:30:37Z")
I never thought I was a nerd, until I realized I can quote hours of dialog from Voyager, Buffy, Witchblade, Firefly, and now Big Bang. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/4 "2012-06-28T13:34:05Z")
I have a tattoo of the Starbrand. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/5 "2012-06-28T13:50:30Z")
I took off work to play Diablo III. ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/6 "2012-06-28T13:55:09Z")
At age 28, I still [build Lego vehicles.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STzYYgJmsoc) They’ve become a lot bigger and better, though. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/7 "2012-06-28T13:57:31Z")
A few years’ back, my team had a Nerdiest Contest. I beat the physicist and the mathematician-turned-programmer by virtue of a Master’s in Theoretical Chemistry. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/8 "2012-06-28T14:05:23Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > A few years’ back, my team had a Nerdiest Contest. I beat the physicist and the mathematician-turned-programmer by virtue of a Master’s in Theoretical Chemistry. I’m not a nerd, but I’m a nerd groupie who always wished I could be a nerd. You are my new nerd hero. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/9 "2012-06-28T14:12:00Z")
I’m a nerd but I can pass as normal. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/10 "2012-06-28T14:14:56Z")
I’m a pretty hardcore IT Guy™. I’ve forgotten more about tech than most people learn in a lifetime, and I can build complex business computing environments practically in my sleep. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/11 "2012-06-28T14:16:40Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I’m a nerd but I can pass as normal. I’m a High-Functioning Nerd. I don’t know what the nerdiest thing about me is. I read math books in bed, which drives Pepper Mill nuts. I always carry a book with me. I memorize long but interesting numbers (although I can’t recirte pi to a hundred places, or anything like that) ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/12 "2012-06-28T14:44:23Z")
I absolutely love reading Medicare, Medicaid & health reform legislation. Fortunately, that’s a large part of what I do professionally. Today is my lucky day!!! I can’t wait to get my hands on that ruling. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/13 "2012-06-28T14:55:20Z")
I play a bunch of play-by-post and play-by-email role-playing games. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/14 "2012-06-28T15:23:00Z")
Where do I begin? The nerdiest, in my opinion: I create my own languages for fun. No, I can’t talk in any of them. Most of them were done before I knew anything about phonetics and need to be redone. The nerdiest thing about _that_: the vast majority are for Thundercats fanfiction. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/15 "2012-06-28T15:43:26Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I play a bunch of play-by-post and play-by-email role-playing games. I co-own a roleplaying play by post website. I haven’t actually RPed on it in quite a while but others still do and I maintain all the tech parts of it. It’s Star Wars. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/16 "2012-06-28T15:47:43Z")
I’m on the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Weeping\_Wyvern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@Weeping\_Wyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weeping_Wyvern)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/17 "2012-06-28T16:17:30Z")
I have memorized over 100 digits of Pi. I often write in Tolkien’s Evlish alphabet. I’m working on creating my own 13-month calender. Yep, I think I’m pretty nerdy. ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_G7subs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rich\_G7subs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_G7subs)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/18 "2012-06-28T17:06:43Z")
Umm… I secretly enjoy ABBA. There…I said it! I feel so relieved now! ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/19 "2012-06-28T17:10:23Z")
> [@MostlyClueless](#): > > At age 28, I still [build Lego vehicles.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STzYYgJmsoc) They’ve become a lot bigger and better, though. > [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > I’m not a nerd, but I’m a nerd groupie who always wished I could be a nerd. You are my new nerd hero. Mostly Clueless is mine. How can you not love an adult who makes LEGO stuff?? ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574/20 "2012-06-28T18:22:03Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I don’t know what the nerdiest thing about me is. I read math books in bed, which drives Pepper Mill nuts. I always carry a book with me. A couple nights ago, I browsed thru Hardy and Wright’s A\*n Introduction to the Theory of Numbers \*(5th Edition) before dropping off to sleep. I wanted to ponder some stuff about quadratic fields. The part about Euclidean quadratic fields was quite interesting. I also like to take a book (and a crossword) with me when I’m going to be in a waiting room. I am baffled by people who come into waiting rooms and _just sit there_. Recent books read: _In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World_ by Ian Stewart, _Simon: The Genius in My Basement_ by Alexander Masters about [Simon P. Norton](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_P._Norton), and _All Facts Considered: The Essential Library of Inessential Knowledge_ by Kee Malesky. Books like the latter are good for reading in little bits here and there. That’s just the nerdy stuff I’m doing now. The stuff I did when I was a research professor in Computer Science is really over the edge. E.g., I proved that the generalized version of a simple board game is PSPACE-Complete. And that was for fun. The serious stuff is … not explainable to mere mortals. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nerdiest-thing-about-you/626574.md?page=2)