The Nerd Confession Thread

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Oh, BBH, you took my class and you were a star pupil. I assure you, you are a nerd! Some nerds are just more stereotypical than others. You don't have to own a Star Fleet uniform to be certifiable.

 

[SKR8PN]

My name is Jim and I don't care for HP stories or stuff.

I have however, watched every episode of ST at LEAST once, most two or three times. Beam me up Scotty!

Loved Dr Who and Dark Shadows when I was in late Jr High and early High School.

I love to read real books, but lately it has been mostly about politics and political history.
Read any and everything I can find about automobiles, new or old.........and about any new energy technologies that pop up.

The more people I meet, the more I like my dogs.

The sexiest women alive, are: Stevie Nicks, Alanis Morissette, Cheryl Crow and Sarah Palin. The list for close seconds is WAY to long to list.

A High horsepower, well tuned engine, at full song, makes my stuff tingle.

I love my wife, my dogs, and my garden in that order.

More later when I have time to think about it......

 

[Wifezilla]

Brain slugs are available for custom order

 

[Blackbird]

The sexiest women alive, are: Stevie Nicks, Alanis Morissette, Cheryl Crow and Sarah Palin. The list for close seconds is WAY to long to list.

You are one intelligent man, Jim.
Thank you.

 

[k0xxx]

I always travel with a towel (HHGTTG)

Don't Panic!

You've gotta love Infocom I still have the original text game for the IBM PC on 5 1/4 inch floppy disks (not the be confused with discs).

 

[xpc]

Alright you wannabe nerds - I almost felt left out because I didn't know what 90% of what you guys listed was until I googled them. Then I remembered that I had stuff that may still allow me into your nerd club, I dug around the back room and took some real photos as anybody can repost from the web.

I don't remember the exact cost on this back in 1988 but with all the extra parts was close to $2000.

It is 3 inches square by 21 inches long and needed a key to operate. I may try laser canning next.

I bought the optic and holography kits which made 3 dimensional photographs. This was quite neat 22 years ago, and very difficult to get good results as you needed a 2 ton vibration stable sandbox siting on car tire inner-tubes, the wife was not happy but the spare room was all mines. I ended up giving her a kid the next year so she would leave me alone.

I just noticed there is a sealed package of 24 sheets of holo film, wonder if its still good.

I built a modulating laser light receiver which was used to bounce a beam off the picture window on a house down the road and listen in on any conversations. I just watched the online episode of the big bang theory of them doing that to the moon, I too tried that back in 88' but the laser was not powerful enough.

Here you can see my unit was made in April 1988

One of the funniest things we did back then because the beam was invisible and a aperture filter made the source undetectable was to shine it in peoples living room windows at night, Lasers were not prevalent as a hand device back then and people did not know where the red spot on their wall was coming from, I ultimately was the first person to invent the cat chasing laser pointer.

They would get up to look at the spot then reach out to touch, I would quickly move it a few feet and watch them follow it around the room, they never looked outside or even closed their drapes. The wife even had fun with it but think Wild Turkey 101, the beverage of choice back then had a lot to do with it. I would certainly not advise to doing anything like that nowadays as you will be shot or arrested.

Here are the web specs
http://i-fiberoptics.com/laser_detail.php?id=18&sum=9

 

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There was never any doubt in my mind that you are certifiably a nerd, xpc!

I was worried about a baby goat so got out my trusty microscope and some slides.....had a homemade popsicle made with my mint chocolate chip ice cream, made, of course, with my own goat's milk, raw eggs from my own hens' butts, and mint extract made from my own herb garden...while waiting for the fecal float timer to go off.

Had fun doing it. Poo smell and all. I'm a nerd. A farm nerd.

 

[big brown horse]

I'm a "farm nerd" then too. Seeing (and smelling) a barn full of fresh baled hay just made this Friday night priceless.

 

[Farmfresh]

No wonder I love all of you! I have been laughing my butt off!

I am a hippy geek. Wife of a book nerd and mother of geeks.

I grew up on Star Trek, ponies and wild berries. My favorite books were all written in the 1940's and most were ag textbooks in their day. On my WDTV box is Dr Who, Torchwood, Star Trek, River Cottage, The Good Life (aka Good Neighbors), Twilight Zone, Big Bang, Black Adder, Hitchcock presents, and until recently BOTH Dark Shadows series (hubby watches box too). On my pickup truck radio Highland Bagpipes, Tull or Big Band is a crankin'.

My hubby most resembles the garbage man in the Dilbert comics.

My children are geeks. When she was but a tiny babe my D1 was engulfed by the world of Star Wars. She wore a padawan braid halfway through school. She read every Star Wars book ever written (even fan fiction ). Just when I was sure I would end up with Luke Skywalker as a SIL she finally grew up and got married ... to a SCA wanna-be, military geek that makes his own chain maille, draws anime and writes fantasy fiction when not involved with MMORPG or D&D. My D1 is fluent in Grelvish which she tells me is a form of Quenya and Sindarin (which is elvish for the un initiated). She spend her free time on Britt (Ultima Online) or Stormwind City (WOW). Sometime in her adult years she finally came to her senses and renounced Star Wars for the more sensible Star Trek. (Although she still has a Luke Skywalker action figure riding shotgun in her car). She is original series all of the way. She purrs when Shatner comes on the screen and I can't say in a public forum things she has told me regarding Spock. Her bookshelf includes, D&D instruction books, Star Wars books, two Bulfinch mythologies (1st edition original and abridged) amongst about a million (OK slight exaggeration) other titles and Highlander, Firefly, and Buffy round out her movies. Her sheep is Malcolm Reynolds. Her dog is "dog" in Grelvish. Her house is decorated in Renaissance Medieval, complete with helm on the medieval replica tv cabinet to the sword collection in the hall. Ya ... geek.

D2 is your typical OCD gourmet chef nerd. Pretty much explains it. She is named after a character in Dune.

GEEK son is ... well a techno geek. He grew up listening to old radio shows with the Great Gildersleeve amongst his favorites. When he was about 8 he came running to me shouting "Come and see Mom. I can program in DOS!" His entire childhood was spent disemboweling every mechanical/electrical device we owned. He speaks several languages ... all of them computer languages. He likes to do fun things like modify maps in game, decode codes and play with all things binary including his bedroom clock. Joss Whedon is his favorite director. He owns all of the Dilbert comics and a first edition signed copy of one of them. His middle name is after the lead singer in Jethro Tull.

In our family Monte Python is mostly memorized. You haven't lived until you have sat at our dinner table and listened to the entire "lovely muck" skit performed by SIL, and GEEK son with a few lines by D1. Or listened to scientific debates about esoteric subjects over a burger at Wendy's.

Yeah - pretty sure we are geeks.

 

[Blackbird]

Yes, you are most definitely NERD Xpc.

I haven't even heard of ANY of these television shows that you guys talk about, but I have heard of star wars and star trek - never watched them though. Growing up I watched Bewitched, Gilligan's Island, the Munsters, Leave it to Beaver, I Dream of Jeanie, I Love Lucy and other oldies.

No nerd/geek here. You can't make me!

(I do love me some Stevie Nicks though)