I looked at your post, Whiterabbit, and “getting your shoes to feel right” sounded weird to me, then I realized that I do this with socks. The seam has to be just right, dammit, or there is no joy in Mudville.
This is the way I do it too. House keys and car keys do not belong together. However the boat and rv keys can be on the same ring with a floaty.
What’s it like when geeks mate? My wife took a call from a fellow who had found a baby rabbit.
“Put it back by the burrow and hide. When she doesn’t see you as a threat anymore the mother will come and get her baby.”
“Lady, I don’t know anything about animal behavior. I’m a philosophy professor, not a zoologist.”
“Then think of the mother rabbit as a fuzzy, little phenomenologist.”
After he hung up the vets, who had been listening in, began to debate whether rabbits could be considered phenomenologists. (See upcoming thread, “When Geeks Work Together”) I, on the other hand, gloat because what she REALLY should have called rabbits is “phenomenalists.”
What is that all about? C’mon, folks, y’all need to get with the program! The world needs MORE geeks! We’re currently trying again, anyway.
See, that’s what I’m talkin’ about!
Yes, we’ve thought about that - how the world could use more kids whose parents have three computers between them, read voraciously, have a killer collection of Star Wars light sabers and figurines, and have long, drawn-out discussions about the nature of black holes and why you can’t/can travel faster than light, but alas, it just isn’t meant to be.
I’m down here visiting Zyada, and last night I grabbed her butt.
“What’s this?” she said.
“A butt,” I answered.
“A bottom, you mean.”
“An ass.”
… And on and on, to gales of laughter, as she wins.
Then a few minutes later there was the string of melon puns that I won …
Yay, geeks!
I believe we considered that, and kept it in reserve as a possibility. But we really did have a GREAT theory worked out using the earth’s gravitational and magnetic fields. Really.
(No, really…and all my imaginary friends support me in email but won’t let me post their emails to show you. Really.)
The Missus and I have brought a few into the world. I’ve been feeding them a steady diet of Star Trek, Star Wars and Star Blazers, and I’m gradually working them up to D-n-D.
You know you’ve reached geekdom when the family sits around and discusses the relative merits of the Predators weapons, or the theoretical origins of the Alien.
Good times, good times…
Since we seem to be drifting from keyrings to skittles to OCD to geek reproduction, I propose another drift in the direction of hyphens and spaces, inspired by this post… (italics mine)
Now, I’m sure that anyone geeky enough to be in this thread would not make a mere hypen-related typo (hypho?) so there must be a subtle difference in meaning between “gold wire-rimmed” and “gold-wire rimmed” …right, Cyn? :dubious:
Yep - “teeth”. (At least, that’s what my family’s always called 'em.)
DogDad and I also go geocaching.
Hiking With GeekGear.
And, re: Magneto (again):
I had another conversation about him with DogDad and he remembered that we decided Magneto had power over the electrons of metals. Something to do with the electron shells. That’s as much as we could remember.
I realized long ago that my OCD was overshadowed by my laziness. For instance, I’ll look at my closet and think “It sure would be better if all the polos were together, and the stripes and plaids over here, and the long-sleeves over there…” But I’m waaaaay to fuckin’ lazy to spend time doin’ it.
But one day…
Ha! Damned revisionists. You were the one that didn’t know what a butt is.
My key ring is a split ring (no beginning or end). The arrangement is based on security; namely, it is optimized to allow me to find critical keys in the dark with one hand easily. The car key is on a spring clip, making it the longest thing on my key ring and allowing it to be removed easily when I take it to a car shop (it’s also impossible to get the fat black plastic topped keys on a split ring). The house key is on a second smaller split ring making it the next longest item on the key ring.
I can get my car key just by twirling the ring on my finger. The car key automatically lands in the dip between my finger and thumb. House key will do the same thing if I’ve got the car key grasped already.
However, I don’t belong in this thread - I’m not anywhere near OCD. In fact I enjoy bothering Bob by putting on one sock and then a shoe, then going to the other side. One of these days, I’m going to really get him by extending this to the legs of a pair of sweat pants.
It’s not an OCD thread, it’s a geek thread! Sheesh.