The Nerd Confession Thread

[Old Sew'n'Sew]

Oh, I forgot- anyone else loved Babylon 5? We loved that show and spent many happy hours sitting with chinese food on the bed watching the re-runs with my daughter.

Yes I remember that one. I won't give it 5 stars but for a while it was ok. Sort of like Sliders, it started with a good thing but really became bogged down just before it got cancelled.

 

[valmom]

It didn't get cancelled- it had a 5 year story line and ended after 5 years. It was Michael Straczynski' (sp??) storyline plan. It had so many plot lines going that there was always something interesting happening.

 

[Old Sew'n'Sew]

They bring in a well known, for guest appearances when the ratings are getting low for a show, hence ST Walter Koenig( Chekov) was a special guest star for Babylon 5.

I am glad they did get to finish the story. When a series that you get interested in does not have closure, It hurts.

 

[Jaxom]

*what books I am keeping, includes everything I can get my hands on written by Ann McCaffery
*Someplace I in my pile of stuff I have a full sized plans for the Enterprise
*Not only do I have Firefly/Sernitiy, I've blake 7, Dr.Who, Red Dwarf all on DVD. I bought my daughter a copy of Ewoks adventure
*While my friends were still into hotwheels, I begged my mother for my first chemistry set
*Edumund's Science cataloge is geek porn
*Friends would build modle cars and planes, I had to have the next greatest Health Kit project
*The guides at Chicago's Musium of Science and Industry know me by first name
*I lauched my first "mouse-ter-naut" in an estes rocket at age 9
*started building my own robot (but that's on hold now due to cash flow)

 

[Farmfresh]

*what books I am keeping, includes everything I can get my hands on written by Ann McCaffery

My D1 is also an Ann McCaffery fan!

My GEEK son hooked me up with a copy of "Mr Spock's Music From Space". Any Trek fans with that one?

Someone here mentioned NPR ... Who here is a Prairie Home Companion fan?

 

[Kim_NC]

I'm not the star trek/star wars type, but I certainly qualify as a geek and nerd. A bit of evidence....

- Spock was my fav Star Trek character
- my childhood hero was ...The Lone Ranger
- I read so much as a child that it drove my mom and grandmother crazy
- at 10 I wanted a globe for Christmas, which I still have today
- my dad was a computer engineer, back in the 60s when it was a "new" profession
- I tutored calculus in college
- all of my roosters have names from mythology...Eros, Notus, Zephyrus, Llyr, etc
- Dh calls The Big Band Theory..."your show"
- I'm analytical, when faced with conflict, I become even more and more analytical
- Besides farming, my other profession is web development. My preferred programming langauge is Cold Fusion
- When faced with computer trouble family members call....me
- at the top of my wish list is....a wind turbine
- all local store clerks know me as that-woman-who-buys-only-cleaning-products-and-occassional-dairy
- I collect things - antique dinnerware, mason jars, cobalt glass items, antique furniture, hard cover books, cookbooks
- I love farm smells...even the pigs. My fav phrase around here is "smells like money to me!"

 

[big brown horse]

Me. I love the Prairy Home Companion!

 

[freemotion]

What about "Wait, Wait" on NPR?

 

[big brown horse]

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[lupinfarm]

:/ my dad is a network specialist. i didn't really inherit is computer genius but my brother did.

i have an awesome photo of my dad working on one of the original computers.


i'm really more of a booknerd, but for about 3 years of my life i was obsessed with photoshop and creating websites. i spent a summer learning all the html my brain could fit and moved onto php.

those 3 years were also the ones i spent my life watching a show called "My So Called Life", i was obsessed with claire danes. i even bought a red jansport backpack to go back to school and had my hair dyed red and ...