How nerdy are you?This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.
So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?
As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.
Revel in your own nerdiness.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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SnapJust what is wrong with spending your evenings in the eighteenth century anyway? Or spending a day every few months re-organising books by author/field? Or taking boxes of books down to the lockup so I can bring back the ones I haven't read for a while? Or reading up to six at any one time? Or installing a bookcase and missing a part so that two shelves worth collapse on top of your two year old as he tries to climb them (sorry junior)? Oh yeah, that one was.
Classic sci-fi, military, naval, historical, biographies, cheap pulp thrillers, shooting, old textbooks from when I thought I might have a career as a graduate, the categories are endless.
I can't walk past a second hand bookshop without having a nose. The septuagenerian assistants practically wet themselves when they see me at the local Hospice Charity shop as they know they'll get some shelf space back.
The back row of the bookshelves contain the cheap tat, with the more 'brainy/arty' stuff at the front. So the complete collection (almost) of Sven Hassell (war-porn for the un-initiated) hides discreetly behind the Shakespeare. Clive Cussler lurks behind Fisheries Ecology. However I like to have the Asterix next to something highbrow just to confuse guests.
Junior has 4 shelves of his own and hasn't even hit his fourth birthday yet.
Typing this has made me realise that I may need to get out more. A lot more. Once I've finished my book of course....
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