Geeks, chime in here!

[DerekG]

Hi, my name is Derek, and I'm a geek.

In grade school, I poured over Marvel comics while the other chaps "read" Sports Illustrated For Kids.

I wrote articles for the high school paper chiding students who still read R.L. Stine (yeah, they existed), recommending they read Richard Matheson, Harlan Ellison, and Clive Barker instead.

I've actually debated who the best recurring guest was on The Twilight Zone (Jack Klugman vs. Burgess Meredith).

I've contemplated writing my own Return of the Jedi screenplay out of disgust with the filmed version.

I've spent 12+ hours in a movie theater watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy marathon...and I consider it a religious experience.

I'd rather spend my spring break at home watching Dr. Who and Fawlty Towers marathons than at Daytona Beach with the future Bushes of America.


Anyone else?

[LynzM]

1. Yeah, me too

Not an uber-geek, but geeky enough. I was the kid in high school (and college...) who blew the curve. I read for fun. I like math (to a point). I like languages, and I like computer programming. I know people who are much bigger geeks than me, but I know many people who consider me the geekiest person they know. So I'm probably a middle-of-the-road geek :)

[xmas74]

2. My name is Beni and I am a geek.

I used to get high and watch Star Trek: The Next Generation. I had a bit of a crush on Wesley. Now if that isn't geeky than nothing else is!

[Deja Q]

3. Top this!

* I've watched Dr Who since age 6 (1978). Have yet to get tired of it. I even downloaded the leaked episode and spent an hour critiquing it.

* I rarely need a spell checker to spell those big words I use.

* I've stumped other star trek fans in a trivia game.

* I think the show "The Bionic Woman" is cool.

* I own 4 computers and use them all for independent projects. (generally video restoration.)

* If I can't find a movie in widescreen on DVD, I'll pay for the LaserDisc and make my own conversion.

* Betamax is superior.

* I know what ATASCII is.

* I know what Irata is. (not just Atari backwards)

* Lucasfilm made the greatest games in 1983. can name many. Can you?

* I openly heckle bad movies in movie theatres.

* I bring a pad and paper into movies so I can write down notes, and then report my review all over the internet.

* I've had sex only TWO times in 2004. And that's the best record I've had since 2000. (I'm not a slut. Just desperate. :P)

* My apartment is decorated with movie posters; posters advertising the movie. Not because it's a well designed poster for a crap movie. (Being gay, people wonder why I have "For Your Eyes Only" hanging on the wall...)

* I could spend a day boring you to death with many technical terms.

* I've memorized the first 11 digits of Pi.

...

[Catch22Dem]

5. "Betamax is superior"

Now there's a geek. Not for thinking it, but for knowing it. Beta is superior and anyone in the film/tv industry will confirm it. VHS only won because Sony had better marketing.

[khashka]

26. Exactly!

Betamax is definitely superior. I still have my old beta player that I'm nursing through it's old age.

Geek Heaven.


Khash.

[rock]

8. You're the very model of a modern major general

geek.

[xmas74]

11. I beat you on the sex.

None since the end of 1999 (and that was enough to get knocked up!).

[Huckebein the Raven]

20. I don't think so

I've got you beat.

[xmas74]

21. That could be sad, depending on the situation.

[Huckebein the Raven]

24. I know.

mais c'est la vie

:shrug:

[khashka]

28. Wait! Hold on! We're debating who has the least sex?

I've attended many scifi and comic cons and they were essentially nonstop orgies of sex, drugs and alcohol! You guys aren't meeting the right geeks.

Geek sex rocks!

Khash.

[xmas74]

30. I need to go to some conventions again!

I have never picked up anyone at a convention. I did date Jabba the Hut for five years, though.
Besides, who has time for sex? Two jobs and a kid here!
(geeks are cute, though)

[CubsFan1982]

13. Twice in a year?

Lately, that's a GREAT year for me!

[RevolutionaryActs]

19. Can I worship you?

:D

[Shredr]

36. I've found a kindred spirit!

Another 32 (almost 33) year old gay geek! Although, I bow to your geekiness, you are far geekier than I.
I can remember Ballblazer, though -- and another one... something about Capture the Fractals? Damn, can't remember now.
I have been a Lucasfilm geek since I can remember.
My walls are covered with movie posters... and I collect SideshowWeta polystone LOTR figures, which I proudly display.
I refuse to give up my Laserdisc collection until all my discs are available on dvd. (How do you make your own dvds from laserdisc!?!)
I got into the film industry to make films like The Empire Strikes Back. (I'm getting there.)
DigiBeta is the best format.
I'll walk out of a bad movie.

The list goes on and on.

Do you have a website, a blog? I'd love to read it. I'll bet we have a lot in common.

[Catholic Sensation]

4. I've written a program in visual basic that exceeded 30 megs

only because the idea of the specific program amused the living hell out of me. I've written a graphic user interface in c++, a semi-working chat client in JAVA, a mini-disk operating system in BASIC, a graphical who wants to be a millionaire game in c++, and can read PHP code like it's english.

Computer wise, I'm a huge fuckin geek (though I avoided ass kickings by playing sports, thought not what most would consider "well").

[ashmanonar]

6. my name is nathan, and i'm a geek. or nerd. or whatever you call us

crazy kids now.

for spring break this year, instead of going home, or going somewhere and partying, i stayed in my room at college and played diablo 2.

of the several things i've bought over the internet this year, more than half have been games or computer components.

i make CHAIN MAIL for a hobby and as a business.

does that talk to you?

[Abelman]

7. Hmm

http://www.thinkgeek.com is a great site for us all.

I own the first four series of Red Dwarf on DVD.

I watch trilogy film fests at least once a month, be they Back to the future, Star Wars, or Lord of the Rings.

I liked Buckaroo Bonzai.

I once had an argument with a friend about Superman's ability to reverse the rotation of the earth as impossible - he cited Superman's heat vision and my arguement was the Heat Vision is a prerequisite for being an alien superhero and that I had no respect for any alien species that couldn't shoot beams from its eyes.

I used to own all the Godzilla movies on VHS and am now working on the DVDs.

I also know Betamax is superior to VHS.

[LynzM]

10. ThinkGeek kicks ass :)

I want the t-shirt that says

Select * from Users where Clue > 0
0 rows returned

and I want to get Briarius the shirt that says

My brain is hung like a horse

Oh, and I want ants for my desk :)

[Abelman]

16. Ants are so cool

I never thought I'd say "That is one cool ant farm" but damn. That is one cool ant farm.

I'm also going to be getting it for my office next year.

[LynzM]

17. Yeah, I know

Neat, isn't it? There's SO much cool stuff on that site!

[vixengrl]

9. Lifetime geek, here.

Resume: High school activities included choir, orchestra (despite no particular talent for it), Senate Committee Chairperson on Lunch Room (despite taking lunch in the school library). College activities included being V.P. of my college choir, and staff of lit. magazine. Extracurricular activities were--Dungeons and Dragons, fantasy baseball (this was a boyfriend-related thing, but I enjoyed it becaused I created balanced teams that kicked ass), doing extra credit assignments, and reading large amounts of Stephen King, Robert Heinlein, Robert Wilson, and X-Factor comic books.

Current geekiness--summed up in three words: Highlander Fanfic Website. Only cash flow has kept me from going to cons.

[Lady Freedom]

12. Do I look like a Geek!!!! Grrrrr

[SarahB]

14. I am a mere quasi-geek...

Yet enough of a geek to use a term like "quasi". I have enough sci-fi knowledge to keep up with geek conversations. However, I suck in math. When it comes to biological and social sciences, I'm the bomb. In math and physics, I'm sadly challenged.

I'm just a Nadia wannabe geek. :cry:

[DerekG]

15. I always assumed nerds were heavier into computers/math/science

I'm what you call an H.G. Wells geek, not a Jules Verne nerd. I can't abide the technical jargon; it's all about character and theme, baby!

[Amfortas]

18. Are dorks allowed ?

[WindRavenX]

22. My name is Genevieve and I am a female geek =)

*I think mitochondria are wicked cute- and have actually gotten into arguements defending why they are the cutest organelle
*I downloaded the Neon Genesis Evangelion movies before they were released in the US
*I know why the Neon Genesis Evangelion movies were even made (answer: to replace the last two episodes in the series which were made because they ran out of money)
*I write poems about science
*My favorite book is Contact
*I bought all the Primal Rage action figures the first day they were availible
*I like transforming various types of bacteria with the gfp gene so they glow
*I think E.coli are cute, even if they smell
*I use emulators to play ROMs
*I think Earthbound is the coolest RPG ever

[khashka]

23. Yep Count Me In!

>Hi, my name is Derek, and I'm a geek.

Hi Derek! I'm Khash and I'm a geek too.

>In grade school, I poured over Marvel comics while the other chaps "read" Sports Illustrated For Kids.

So did I. I really believed that Stan Lee was god.


>I wrote articles for the high school paper chiding students who still read R.L. Stine (yeah, they existed), recommending they read Richard Matheson, Harlan Ellison, and Clive Barker instead.

I tried to get 'em to read Clive (my hero) Barker, Poppy Z. Brite and Jane Austen. Do all geeks write for the school paper?

>I've actually debated who the best recurring guest was on The Twilight Zone (Jack Klugman vs. Burgess Meredith).

It was Burgess Meredith.


>I've contemplated writing my own Return of the Jedi screenplay out of disgust with the filmed version.


Sounds like me and Doctor Who scripts.

>I've spent 12+ hours in a movie theater watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy marathon...and I consider it a religious experience.

I spent my entire monthly salary (and ended up quitting my job) to go to Timecon cuz Nicola Bryant was gonna be there. Did it again for Worldcon and yet again to meet up with a bunch of people from rec.arts.doctorwho in Chicago.

>I'd rather spend my spring break at home watching Dr. Who and Fawlty Towers marathons than at Daytona Beach

Hey! We should spend spring break together!

Khash.

[Bouncy Ball]

25. You're SUCH an amateur.

I checked out every book on etiquette in my middle school library in the sixth grade and read every one of them cover to cover.

I carried my violin around to every class because it was expensive and my mother threatened me with death if I left it in the band hall. Even OTHER DORKS picked on me for that.

I thought a boy's bowl haircut was the height of fashion.

I've daydreamed and written stories about time travel since I was 10. Just had another daydream about it yesterday. Very elaborate stuff. I'm obsessed with the idea of it.

I could go on and on, but I'm tired.

My boss took his telescope with him to test drive new cars to make sure it fit in the trunk. Now THAT is a geek.

[no name no slogan]

27. Geeking on this planet since 1969

* I memorized all the dialogue to the first Star Wars movie when it first came out (I was 8 at the time). Later on, I did the same thing with the movie "Stripes";

* I've written some halfway-decent fiction and non-fiction in my time (but I'm too afraid to get it published);

* When I was a kid, I used to relax by reading the encyclopedia. I would probably make out like a bandit if I ever got on Jeopardy.

* I have perfect pitch and can play about a dozen musical instruments. I also have an uncanny ability to play a song on guitar after hearing it only once.

* I have been writing songs and original music since I was 15, some of which has been played on the radio or licensed for websites, commercials, etc.

* I relax by doing New York Times crosswords (typically Thu's & Fri's -- I can do Mon-Wed in about 15 minutes);

* I first learned how to program in BASIC on an old time-share mainframe computer in summer school when I was 7; the first computer I owned was a Timex Sinclair 1000.

* I still own every first-generation Star Wars figure ever produced (by Kenner, back in the 1970s-1980s).

* I was a D&D fanatic in high school, and a social outcast to boot. Although there were 2,300 people in my high school, I never had a "serious" girlfriend until I got to college.

* I've been working as a web site designer/web developer/webmaster since 1997, after I discovered the internet while doing digital recording at a friend's recording studio.

Am I geek enough for this crowd? :shrug:

[ashmanonar]

29. King Hypnotoad is dead,

Long Live the King!

*bows to your utter geekery*

[no name no slogan]

32. Whoa, that is high praise indeed!

:hi:

[xmas74]

33. You are my geek god!

[KitchenWitch]

31. total geek

[bridgit]

34. ubergeek

http://www.ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=54

[bobthedrummer]

35. I'm the proud dad of a geek!

:hi: