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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me.xlsI'm an IT Developer, have been for a number of years, but I'm an excel geek.
So much so that I keep a keep a (password protected) spreadsheet, me.xls which I keep up to date on my work laptop, home laptop and mobile phone.
It has loads of worksheets detailing:
- all my bank account statements, plus rolled-up worksheets of the regular bills I pay
- a rolled up worksheet telling me how much I have to spend per day, per week and in total 'til my next payday
- all my credit card statements
- electric meter readings and bills (for comparison)
- my annual leave and sickdays taken from work
- a list of folk who sent Xmas cards, so I don't miss out anyone the next year
- the amount of days I've not smoked for, including the amount I would have spent had I still been smoking (which is actually really encouraging)
- organising 5-a-side football & nights out (which I do loads of)
All my iTunes music has everything organised fully (down to year of release, album artwork) and the fields on my iPhone/Outlook contacts are all correctly populated.
Oh, and in work - I don't use any paper, I use a mind-map program for all my notes (and I think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread)
I've actually got a really outgoing personality and I'm really sociable, but I just like certain things to be "right" - god, what a geek :)
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 16:55, 1 reply)
Mind MapsWhat's the program you use?
/loves mind maps
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chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 17:38,
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