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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...1. Lots of things, but mostly: 16th Century Spanish polyphonic choral music. Terry Pratchett. 20th Century postmodernist composers. Contemporary "sound effect" techniques for flute, and how to invent even more when composing.
2. Sadly, my office is pretty normal, and "band camp" (or "choir camp") stories would get very irritating very quickly.
3. Yup.
4. No. You stationary-loving weirdo.
5. Yup. Lots.
6. Yup. Lots and lots. Bastard teenagers.
7. glasses, a very bad haircut, brown clothes, an anorak, a pinafore, tweed. Not all at the same time.
8. asthma, social rejection, blushing, addiction to Radio 4.
9. Yes I do. Not telling though.
10. Not really.
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