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Hermione69

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 1:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This is a companion thread to the Geek Quiz one. This is for people to come in and talk about some of the more geeky things they do. I'll start!

Although I didn't recognize a lot of the games on the quiz, I have turned into a Gamer. My BiL introduced me to a website called GameFAQs that has become my bible for getting through some of the games I like to play. My brother told me that I was officially a Gamer last summer when I refused to turn off the Harry Potter game before going to bed. I was stuck in a room I couldn't beat and had no way to save and didn't want to lose my progress. So I left the game on for hours until I could make it through that room and get to a save point! I subscribe to Game Informer and have recently gotten totally hooked on the Zelda series. May the way of the hero lead to the Triforce... I'm even thinking of getting that put on a t-shirt!

And add me to the list of people who used to study TP cards! My family hates to play me at the first edition because they know I have read all the cards! More than once! Sometimes I can even finish the question before the person is done reading it! Now THAT is embarrassing! Tish and Kaili, we should form a club, LOL!

Now who is it that collects dirt??? Reiki?

C'mon, people, spill! Dig deep and share your geekiest secrets!

Jed245

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 4:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'll play along hermione. :o)

Like you I'm a gamer... a HARD CORE gammer I'm talking first person shooters, rpg's, the whole 9.. :o)I'm a comic book collector. I'm a Certified Electronics tech. (I got the little paper and everything)... A fan of the xfiles and highlander (I love swords). I love any fiction that involves dragons. I own and have made fantasy art.

I'd kill to own a light saber. heheh :o) I love scientific reading material. I have owned a chemistry set and used it. I own all sorts of electrical eq for testing things.

I know boolene algerbra, hexidecimal, and binary and how to use them in equations to solve electrical formulas. I know how to bridge a circuit. I know how to defeat most of the Final fantasy boss's. :o)

I have fools gold and other neat looking rocks. (and know the names of them.. pyrite) :o)I have been learning several different languages on my own for fun.


I know some C++, and other programming languages. I've always wanted to see a mian (er is it myan?)temple and explore. I know how to program a micro processor.

My comic book collection is in order of issue, importance of charcter to the story, and name.


Last but, not least.... I own superman undies. :o)

Jed. :o)

Pamy

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 4:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL!

Reiki

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 6:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
There are so many geeky things to choose from.

I have a bookshelf dedicated to my Star Trek fiction, tv guides with Star Trek covers, christmas ornaments, and autographed pictures from the 3 Star Trek conventions I've been to. I made a pair of Vulcan ears for a halloween costume one year.

This is different from my bookshelf of Tolkien stuff including many of the History of Middle Earth books and the Middle Earth Atlas. I not only know the name of more than 5 hobbits, I know some of their names in Westron. I also lurk the usenet tolkien groups like rec.art.books.tolkien.

Whenever I go traveling I bring home a rock. I have rocks from a lot of places. More recently I have collected sand (dirt) and ocean water from both the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.

I have maps on the wall in both my living room and my bedroom and I like to buy a new Rand McNally every year. I only have one globe, but I want another one.

I have read the dictionary just for fun. I find word etymology interesting and own more than one baby name book even thought I have no children. I have read the complete works of Shakespeare out loud to myself. I read Le Morte de Arthur and the Canterbury Tales for fun. I have read Crime and Punishment and Don Quixote but that was for college. I taught myself greetings in Russian while reading Crime and Punishment.

I was never in the choir, the band, the a/v department, or the school drama department, but I was a groupie to kids who did. I was in the Spanish club and the computer club and was teachers aide to my computer teacher.

Okay, that's geeky enough!

Tess

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 6:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Uh Reiki? Don't forget that you play Trivial Pursuit online. I'm fairly certain that adds to your overall geekiness. :)

Hermione69

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 6:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm still laughing at Jed and his Superman undies! And Reiki as a choir groupie!

I'm glad I am not the only person interested in neat rocks! I have a necklace that has a little glass jar full of pyrite as a charm.

Hermione69

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 6:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You can play Trival Pursuit online? Where???

Reiki

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 6:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right here at TVCH Hermione >>> TV Clubhouse: Games: Trivial Pursuit

Tabbyking

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 6:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i was envious of my friends who had the day of the week undies! but i also thought they were pretty sad, if they were wearing monday's pair on thursday! i never thought they were wearing them out of order, i assumed they had worn them for 3 or 4 days!
okay, so what is totally geeky about me?
i collected sport cards and sports line-ups and sport memorabilia for a whole year. and it is stashed everywhere!
"uh, no, honey. that's not the leaf to the table. the leaf has been in place for 9 years. the leaf bag holds dan marino and emmitt smith dolls from penney's."

Not1worry

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 7:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm definitely a jigsaw puzzle geek. I'm thrilled to see new and cool 1000 pc. and up puzzles. I have table in my bedroom with an swivel easy chair. My set up includes an orange table cloth and a yellow piece of poster board over it. The colors are hideous, but it makes the pieces easier to see. The poster board makes it easy to move sections. When the puzzle is done, I can scrunch it apart and tip the poster board into the box. My mother and I are fanatics. We do 1000 pc. puzzle together in a day. I have about 10 puzzles waiting to go at all times. Thank heavens my grandparents live at a retirement home and provide me with a good supply from their "recreation center".

Definitely a puzzle geek. I love word puzzles and trivia too.

Hermione69

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 7:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I LOVE jigsaw puzzles! I got an LOTR puzzle for Christmas.

Tabby, do you collect 49ers stuff? I have a good friend originally from California who has all kinds of Niner stuff. Her family even has a piece of the original field! So I guess they collect dirt, too!

Landi

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 7:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
where i seem to have gotten the points from is here: I created a website and it was before 1996, i then submitted that website to search engines. i owned a personal domain - again before 1996. also i had perfect attendance in high school (got a special award for it) and in college. i graduated high school at 16. had my bachelors at 19 and my masters at 21.

i do not prefer the term geek... i'm a geekette!


Tabbyking

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 7:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
yep, hermi, i collect 9er stuff. how funny to have some of the original turf, though!

Hermione69

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 8:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Landi, I'm impressed!

I also saw in the Geek Quiz thread that you know some sign language. I'm Deaf so I was curious about that. How/why did you learn? That is so cool! I didn't even think how I could count to 31 on one hand with ASL, but you are right, you can!

Reiki, thanks for the link! I'll have to play sometimes.

Tabby, I've another friend who got to meet Steve Young and had her picture taken with him. She said that he is even better looking in person than he was on TV.

Jed, I would LOVE a real light saber, too! My nephew has an Orc sword and BiL was playing with it over Thanksgiving (he would score SO high on this quiz!) and he kept making it glow blue whenever I came in the room!! How nice. I'm an Orc.

You guys can't tell I just revel in stuff like this, can you?

Melfie1222

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 9:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was on my high school yearbook staff my junior year... if I would have continued my senior year I would have been the editor, but I had to choose between yearbook and 3rd year French as they were both in the same period, I ended up choosing French. I would have loved to do the yearbook another year though. That's pretty geeky, isn't it?

I love libraries, worked in a library in high school and it was one of my favorite jobs.

Mamie316

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 9:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't study the Trivial Pursuit cards but I do have every Trivial Pursuit game that they have made. I am the person that everyone wants on their team and the one that everyone tries to beat. I don't know why but I certainly retain a lot of useless knowledge. Especially pop culture. I collect anything with Marvin the Martian on it and I have a big collection of Beauty and the Beast things.

Tabbyking

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 9:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i, too, love all the trivial pursuit editions--however, the millenium edition has way too many questions dealing with marvel comics and MTV, neither of which i know anything about!
i do remember, we used to joke with the very first TP game, for the blue (geography) question: when in doubt, guess paris! i think it was probably the answer on 1/10 of the geography questions!

Tishala

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 9:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I thought taht quiz was skewed a bit toward math/science geekiness. I can tell you for a FACT that I am more geeky than I registered on that thing. First, who gets a Ph.D. and isn't something of a geek? Especially when, as part of that endeavor, you read trial transcripts of early American criminals and execution sermons of rapists?

I am an etymology geek. I love to twist words into their original (lost) derivations so I can make it seem like someone is saying the opposite of whatevre he or she really said. This is very good when you are arguing with a bf and you want to break up with him. He is quite literally right when he says "You're twisting my words." Well yes, honey, but only back to their original meaning.

Miss_Wings

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 9:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think that it is the math teacher stuff (knowing my age in binary, programming calculators) that did me in. I was certain that the husband would score higher, but he claims he didn't. He's the reason that we own just about every original series Star Trek novel written.

Hermione, DH and I took two semesters of ASL last year. We thought that if we took it together we could help each other practice, but we wind up arguing with each other about whether or not we just did a sign correctly.

Sigh.

Yankee_In_Ca

Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 11:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ummm... I don't think ANY of these things I do are geeky, but other people do, so I guess I'll list them here :) :):

I, like Jed, am also a gamer -- mostly first-person shooters and rpg's. (And I'm a girl -- so take that, marketing research stereotypes!!!) Right now I'm playing LOTR: Return of the King (EA Games) and Deus Ex 2. Just finished Call of Duty before I left for NY in December.

Also, I was in the marching band in both high school and college, taught color guard and marching/maneuvering in my spare time after college, and still to this day love marching bands!!! Just watched the movie Drumline for the umpteenth time again today -- not a great movie, but it's about marching bands so I love it!!! My partner thinks I'm nuts but I think it also tickles him that I have this little quirk.

I also LOVE jigsaw puzzles, though the pace of my life doesn't really allow for it. I'd LOVE to take a week or two off from "life" and just hang out on TVCH, play computer games and do a jigsaw puzzle. And read a few books, too.

Oh, and I love Lyle Lovett.

I think that's it. At least that's it off the top of my head. I guess I am geeky! :)

Jed245

Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 1:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yankee, Do you like LOTR return of the king? I'm considering buying it I have beaten the other LOTR games. Deus Ex2 is pretty awesome isn't it? Have you tried Starwars Knights of the old republic. Ya should like it if you like Deus Ex.

Oh and I'm also thinking about buying call of duty as well. What do you think about it? I hear the AI is nearly flawless. :o)


Still waiting on fable and half life 2... oh and halo 2. :o)

Jed. :o)

Urgrace

Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 2:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh my! This reminds me of the geek chat room I once dropped into!

Puzzles are part of my life. Jigsaw, Crossword, Trivia and games too. (We have a lot of nice games here at tvch) I was in JH/HS marching band for five years and won a scholarship to 'band camp' at the University of Georgia. My son and I have seen all the Star Wars movies several times, I have a toy light saber, and I've watched a lot of Star Trek.

During school I worked as the office assistant, a library assistant, and a teacher's assistant. My bookshelves are filled with reference books, manuals, digests, encyclopedias, dictionaries and saved National Geographics. There are quite a few Terry Brooks on my bookshelves too, and I have a huge dragon puzzle. Dabbling in learning languages is a hobby.

All the connections to the DVD, VCR, Karaoke Machine, Cable TV, Webtv in the house have been wired by me. I have painted, crafted and made things from scratch without the benefit of someone else's blueprint. I have repaired the lawnmower and can assemble an alternator or a table lamp.

A word of warning to Reiki: if you ever go to Hawaii, don't bring home any rocks. They are all under the protection of royalty and will bring bad luck to anyone who removes them from their home. Shells are okay. (I have several rocks from around the country, too)

Ddr1135

Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 3:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was Editor of my high school yearbook!

I love jigsaw puzzles! I even do them online at
www.jigzone.com

Kaili

Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 7:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. I love trivia/Trivial Pursuit and, as Hermione mentioned, I did study the cards. First edition. As with the Paris thing, if it was a sports question about golf, when in doubt pick Jack Nicklaus. :)

2. I number my list of geekness. LOL

3. I browse through dictionaries and thesauri. In fact, I used a dictionary just now to see what the plural of thesaurus is. I had a choice. I like thesauri better than thesauruses.

4. I never out loud corrected teachers/professors- but I did know when they were wrong. I just kept to myself.

5. Maps, maps everywhere. Hello- geography degree. i'm a map geek!

6. I'm 25 and I wear Clifford slippers. You know the kind- they're huge. I have a pair of rams too but the horn gets caght on my mouse cord a lot (under my desk).

7. Geocaching. This goes with number 5. Not just geocaching now, but that I've been doing it for two years. That's kind comparable to the pre-1986 website in the GPS world :)

8. Hmmm....that's all I can come up with right now. But really, if I'm a geek- would I know it or would I just think that what I do/like is normal?

Cassie

Sunday, January 11, 2004 - 7:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What's the difference between a Geek and a Nerd? I scored 3.1558 (poser)on the geek test and I really don't know the answer!