Share your nerdiest moments

[Horus]

Originally posted by: badmouse
I was talking to a colleague about kids. He referred to his as "version 1.0, 2.0., and one in beta".

Made perfect sense to me.

LOL, I have a friend that does that, too. His nickname is Meatman, so his kids are Meatspawn Ver. 1.0 and 2.0. Or, Minimeat and Micromeat.

My nerdiest moment: At a lanparty, about 8 of us watching a guy play "Pachinko Sexy Reaction". You win a round, anime girl takes off shirt, nerds cheer @ boobies.

 

[Trader05]

wow this thread is a confidence booster, thanks ATOT!

 

[OCNewbie]

In Everquest, when you see a monster/mob in chase mode, or running, not in it's typical slow pathing behavior, you can assume it's chasing after someone.... so you just click on the mob to make it your target, and use the /assist command to find out what that mob is chasing, or your target's target, and you'll then have the name of the player it's chasing down (can do this to find the ass that's causing a train of mobs that's about to unleash havoc on unsuspecting bystanders).

Well, I was on the interstate here in Orlando, and ahead on my left, I notice a highway patrol car in the median just as it's turning on it's lights and making a u-turn to apparently chase someone that had been speeding, or whatever, and the instant thought in my mind was to /assist it and find out which car it was chasing =) That gave me a little chuckle, and also probably told me I had been playing EQ too much lately =)

 

[Neurorelay]

Originally posted by: LordSegan
Simulated computer voice in bed with a girl.

/thread

Sounds like that movie "Grandma's Boy".

 

[ruffilb]

Math league states.

 

[OCNewbie]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
Ok, I just created a MySpace for my rabbit:

http://www.myspace.com/85502353

Definitely my nerdiest moment ever, though it was a girl that talked me into it so it's not like I came up with it on my own.

LOL I really like the captions for the Harley Collar, and big nose pics =) Pics #1 and 2.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: cubalis
Asked a girl on the first 'date' how much Gil she paid for her shoes....

No need to mention first and last - stupid FFXI

You should have Hasted yourself and quickly cast Confusion on her, so that she didn't remember what you had said.

 

[Neurorelay]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: cubalis
Asked a girl on the first 'date' how much Gil she paid for her shoes....

No need to mention first and last - stupid FFXI

You should have Hasted yourself and quickly cast Confusion on her, so that she didn't remember what you had said.

LMAO!

 

[imported_CromsDog]

leaving a party to go home and figure out why in the hell my Media Center PC was lagging when streaming video over WiFi.

 

[python023]

After a long day of Halo I had a dream, but I saw everything through the pistol scope (Halo 1) and peoples' names would fade in above them if I targeted them long enough.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: OCNewbie

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
Ok, I just created a MySpace for my rabbit:

http://www.myspace.com/85502353

Definitely my nerdiest moment ever, though it was a girl that talked me into it so it's not like I came up with it on my own.

LOL I really like the captions for the Harley Collar, and big nose pics =) Pics #1 and 2.

Hey, no making fun of his nose

 

[videogames101]

Originally posted by: ruffilb
Math league states.

Ugh, that annoucement.... When I heard them annouce my name it on the school intercom I knew I was the nerdiest person in the school. I'm just gald I didn't make nationals...

I use FTW, LOL, etc in sentences and I my best joke ever was about D&D...

Also the fact that I serf hardware forums and build my computers at 13...

 

[The Pentium Guy]

i went to a hot dog stand and a sign said, "4 for $4, ONWED" and i thought it said OWNED and i was laughing so hard and everyone was looking at me like "WTF m8?"

i was driving home, and the car in front of my had the license plate "131 WTF". i was laughing so hard i almost went off the road

Cheers to the person with 1337 tattoo'd on em :-D

 

[MrManly]

I was in English class handwriting an essay. After writting a few sentences on the paper, my left hand instinctively made a move to press 'Ctrl-S'. When I realized it, I just had to shake my head.

-MrManly

 

[BRObedoza]

when i graduated as a math major

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: MrManly
I was in English class handwriting an essay. After writting a few sentences on the paper, my left hand instinctively made a move to press 'Ctrl-S'. When I realized it, I just had to shake my head.

-MrManly

Back when I used to write a lot of essays in high school. I'd hit ctrl-s continuously whenever I write something whether its on ATOT or something.

 

[Appledrop]

i used to be a real ultima online addict. I got on a bus and said "bank." If youve never played.. wont make much sense heh

 

[JohnAn2112]

I've said "oh teh noes!!" out loud.

 

[gar3555]

Oh another nerd moment: getting first in the regional math relays...a proud moment in high school

 

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

Taking a paper and pen on board a 12 hour flight and writing code on how to figure out how to solve a particular coding problem. The people sitting next to me were wondering what I was doing and frequently stared at my paper. One of them did end up asking me what I was doing and laughed after I explained it to them. Actually, I used to do that a lot... in class when I was bored or when I didn't have access to a computer.

Getting into a big argument with my friend on which is a better graphics card and how to code a particular problem.

Talking with my friends about the latest slashdot stories.

Being the goto guy for whether a game for any particular system is good or not even though I may not have the game/systems.

Being able to recall obscure facts about past games/game designers. I remember when Doom 3 was coming out, I spent about 1 hour telling my co-worker about the history of iD.

Keeping the original packaging of all the games I've owned.

My Mom was learning metal-emboss art and I convinced her to emboss Sonic the hedgehog... it came out pretty cool and I hang it near my computer.

Frequently upsetting (not intentionally) Professors who teach programming at college by asking questions which they did not know answers too. After the first few days, I know whether or not I'm getting on the nerves of the teacher and stop asking questions. However, the really good ones appreciated and encouraged me to ask questions... when they didn't know the answers, they would flatout say that they weren't sure and they promised to get back to me.

Owning every Nintendo system from the NES onwards (except the virtual boy.. wasn't in the country at the time, so it wasn't really my fault ).

 

[trogdor07]

Actually knowing what movie this is from and exactly how the voice sounds in my head when I read the quote! Oh and replying on a computer forum under the "Share your nerdiest moments" thread.

Originally posted by: KLin

Originally posted by: LordSegan
Simulated computer voice in bed with a girl.

/thread

Joshua: Shall we play a game?

 

[bluewall21]

I passed a sign that said "DSL $2.99", and I was amazed. Until I realized it was a gas station selling diesel.

Sometimes I wrote dates on school papers in binary.

Having nearly every conversation with my friend turn into a critical analysis of Star Wars.

Making parody websites of my teachers while in study hall in a CS classroom.

Carrying around The Empire Strikes Back on my PDA and watching it during whenever I have free time.

Finishing an assignment in a CS class before it was assigned.

 

[Pepsei]

when i was in highschool about 15 years ago, and inexperienced with women...

some girl was hitting on me in this Sun Coast video store, i was looking at animes at the time.

She asked me what's my favorite...

I panicked and said "I have a girlfriend" and fled.....

amazing how much i changed.....

 

[patentman]

When I was in college, I threw a block of sodium metal in the campus lake..... I wanted to see a big boom.... Unfortunately, because the metal was drenched in mineral oil (the way sodium metal is typically stored), its just skirted around on the surface of the lake for about 10 minutes (it was a BIG block of sodium)...

 

[MidNiteMysT]

Originally posted by: Giscardo

Originally posted by: kgokal
While working out some CS problem on a dry-erase board. My buddy says "delete that", referring to erasing some code on the board.

I had a similar one:
While moving some orange chicken from the takeout container to a plate, I told a friend that I was copying the chicken over to the plate.

haha, thats a good one. but its actually cuting and pasting