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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HmmmI was so upset the other day when my chemistry teacher suggested that Glenn Gould was the finest interpreter of Beethoven (to be fair to her, my friend and I had just spent the last ten minutes air pianoing the first movement of the appasionata while she was rabbiting on about something to do with Arrhenius) that I absolutely launched into a long-winded but impassioned defense of Alfred Brendel, who is several orders of magnitude better than that facile charlatan. She looked quite upset. As much as I can rationalize that people don't like being told they're wrong, when it comes to Beethoven I just can't stop myself.
I also own a copy of George Russell's 'The Lydian Chromatic concept of Tonal Organization', can recognize and pianist that recorded on Blue Note, Impulse or Columbia in the 60s just from the chord voicings they favour, and contribute regularly to the radio three jazz message board. I also have a party trick (well, it would be if I ever went to any parties where this kind of thing would go down well) where I can do pretty convincing, though I say so myself, impressions of a large number of tenor saxophonists. My personal favourites are Don Byas, Booker Ervin, Lucky Thompson, and John Coltrane circa 1963.
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