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Cthulhu	7 votes - 50 %
Elric	6 votes - 42 %
Commodore	3 votes - 21 %
D&D	9 votes - 64 %
WIPO	2 votes - 14 %

14 Total Votes

somebody's a bigger geek than he lets on | 35 comments (35 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback

Earth to Calla by georgeha (4.00 / 2) #1 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 06:32:23 PM EST

big guy owns Devo DVDs. Can it get any geekier than that?

Devvo DVDs? by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #3 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 06:44:01 PM EST

Would a fatpie.com addiction be geekier?

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Geeks are not gross. by calla (2.00 / 0) #11 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 10:12:05 PM EST

Often they're clean and tidy.

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: Being a geek. . . by Awakened Dreamer (2.00 / 0) #27 Fri Mar 10, 2006 at 10:07:51 AM EST

I disagree, and am highly offended by your insinuation.

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Craack that whip! by NoMoreNicksLeft (3.00 / 3) #5 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 07:02:00 PM EST

We are not men, we are Devo.
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: uh by tps12 (4.00 / 1) #26 Fri Mar 10, 2006 at 09:28:33 AM EST

It's "are we not men?" A question.

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Sure he'll admit his DEVO addiction, by calla (4.00 / 2) #9 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 10:03:06 PM EST

but he pretends to be the less geeky one of us.

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DEVO ISN'T GEEKY by gzt (4.00 / 1) #20 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 11:20:38 PM EST

David Bowie digs Devo and if you say David Bowie is geeky, I don't want to be normal.

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Geek Past? by The Fool (4.00 / 2) #2 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 06:34:19 PM EST

I'm sort of like Scrooge. I'm haunted by the Ghost of My Geek Past, the Ghost of My Geek Present, and the Ghost of My Geek Future.

I have two post-it notes stuck to my face by Forbidden (4.00 / 1) #4 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 06:59:32 PM EST

Right now.

I got my hair cut today.

You once was.
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I'm confused. by NoMoreNicksLeft (4.00 / 1) #6 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 08:41:40 PM EST

Is one condition related to the other?
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: Christ only knows. [nt] by Forbidden (4.00 / 2) #7 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 08:57:33 PM EST

You once was.
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The poll. by NoMoreNicksLeft (4.00 / 1) #8 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 09:09:00 PM EST

I'm familiar with all. Elric though, only because of a "magic sword poll" I did on K5 a few months back. Stormbringer turned up on wikipedia. I think it was #1, by the way.
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Imagine a big and funny guy by calla (2.00 / 0) #10 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 10:10:35 PM EST

saying "It steals the souls of of those it slays" over and over.
It's cute in a geeky way.

Of course Stormbringer is number one. An evil sentient sword kicks ass.

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: You have no clue what you're talking about. by NoMoreNicksLeft (4.00 / 1) #12 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 10:20:58 PM EST

Skulltwister is by far cooler, though if I really did have a choice, it would be Wayfinder (who wants Coinspinner when it can evaporate at any time? Wayfinder brings wisdom).
Of course, you do have some taste. I mean, you could have preferred Goodkind's Sword of Truth (ick).
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Vic=20 FOR LIFE. by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 3) #13 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 10:25:00 PM EST

And the C64 SID chip!

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.

You say that. by NoMoreNicksLeft (4.00 / 2) #14 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 10:29:07 PM EST

But somehow I doubt you've got the 2400 baud serial adapter hooked up to your linux machine so you can read husi with lynx on your vic20 terminal.
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I don't use Lunix. by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 2) #15 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 10:32:41 PM EST

I'm a professional UNIX administrator.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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Oh. by NoMoreNicksLeft (4.00 / 1) #17 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 10:38:51 PM EST

That's pretty fucking hardcore to write your own PPP stack and web browser in commodore basic.

(100% serious: I do have a PCI GPIB card sitting in my home server, and I desperately want to get a Pet to hook up to it...)
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I have the Commodore SX-64 by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #22 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 11:52:54 PM EST

"Executive Computer" "portable" C64, which I love, but I have no need or desire to network it. It gets used primarily as a low-end drum machine, cranking out hawt 8-bit goodness.

I had given some thought to poking around and seeing if I could get Coherent running on it, but, hey, who's got the time?

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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: I'm always trying to network mine. by NoMoreNicksLeft (4.00 / 1) #23 Fri Mar 10, 2006 at 01:17:52 AM EST

I've got a PDP-11/04 that I really need to get around to finding a unibus ethernet adapter for (how can you not get at least a little excited over a nic with a whose surface area is measured in square feet?).
Also looking for an arcnet nic for my TRS-80 Model 6000 (running XENIX, woohoo!). The amigas are mostly on the arcnet segment.
And of course, my localtalk segment is the most bizarre network in the world.
I've even got the starlan nic sitting in my home server waiting for the day I get an actual 3b2.
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All the hours I spent on that thing by calla (4.00 / 3) #18 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 10:48:32 PM EST

waiting, waiting, waiting.

I wish I still had that VIC-20.

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Boy, have I got a happy surprise for you... by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 2) #21 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 11:51:04 PM EST

RELIVE THE MAGIC!

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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: Those screenshots by calla (4.00 / 1) #29 Fri Mar 10, 2006 at 12:23:02 PM EST

brought tears to my eyes. I didn't expect that.
Thanks!!!

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Geek past by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #16 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 10:36:21 PM EST

When I was in high school, we stopped playing D&D. Instead, we started playing "Stormbringer", a role playing game based on Elric.
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: I remember that game. by calla (3.00 / 1) #19 Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 11:05:21 PM EST

My buddy, Tonya, wanted us all to try it, but none of us had the energy to learn a new role-playing game.
Are you the Geek King?

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I have this theory by Rogerborg (4.00 / 3) #24 Fri Mar 10, 2006 at 04:05:04 AM EST

That he was never really a Grunt Cop, he just has flashbacks to a particularly vivid d20 modern campaign.

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Metus amatores matrum compescit, non clementia.

: I can see it. by calla (4.00 / 1) #31 Fri Mar 10, 2006 at 12:30:53 PM EST

He's kinda like Mark David Chapman - except his object of obsession is a character in a game.
He has spent years gathering memorabilia and gear until even he can't tell if he really was a cop or not.
His photographs in uniform are especially nice.
Should I worry?

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Geeky past? by thunderbee (4.00 / 1) #25 Fri Mar 10, 2006 at 08:03:55 AM EST

Why past?

I still play AD&D (1st ed) when I can gather enough players, still have a copy of Stormbringer (before it got renamed to Elric), still have the original Cthulhu (before it got ported to d20).

There's nothing like a good pen'n'paper RPG with some friends (emphasis on the R in RPG).

I don't have space for my old machines unfortunately, but like to run a wizardry or warp factor game on an apple ][ emulator (went from Sinclair ZX81 to the Apple without a stop on a Commodore, flame on ;-).

: Why past? by calla (2.00 / 0) #30 Fri Mar 10, 2006 at 12:25:04 PM EST

Kids. 'nuff said.

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Missing Poll Option: by greyrat (4.00 / 1) #28 Fri Mar 10, 2006 at 11:57:35 AM EST

French Horn. In Symphonic Band, Pit Orchestra and Orchestra.

Band Geeks are a special breed. by calla (4.00 / 2) #32 Fri Mar 10, 2006 at 12:54:27 PM EST

Band geeks got band chicks, which was much more than most regular geeks got.

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Heh heh heh. You said 'breed'! by greyrat (4.00 / 1) #33 Fri Mar 10, 2006 at 07:52:04 PM EST

Band chicks. Well, for me it was more like banned chicks. Although there was my lovely L__ from another high school in the district. Mmmmmmm. I don't know why, but she had an obsession about deflowering me for some reason. But that's a story for another time, inshallah.

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: deflowering you? by calla (2.00 / 0) #34 Fri Mar 10, 2006 at 08:33:01 PM EST

I don't think boys have flowers.
Your L__ was unusual. Didn't she know that the boys were supposed to do the obsessing?
Getting the high school boys obsessed was easy - keep them begging. Don't even kiss them. They'll buy nice things for you, take you to nice places, write poems about you, etc.

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Hmm. by thunderbee (4.00 / 1) #35 Mon Mar 13, 2006 at 03:06:33 AM EST

I'll let you know as mine grow up; but right now the problem is finding enough players :)

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