I think it's becoming apparent that we need to have some sort of Nerd-Off

[Lethe]

To determine who the alpha Nerd is here.

[crim son]

1. I got yer fuckin' ass beat.

And you know it. :P Proof: I'm drinking sake.

[Lethe]

3. but can you program in binary?

:spank:

[crim son]

10. I cannot.

But I can whip up virtually any meal without a recipe, and you'd like it! :spank: :P

If I COULD code in binary, I might have a job. So there!

Wait. I believe you win this round.

[Lethe]

12. that is cool, i do that too

i just think of a recipe that i liked in the past, and then just try to recreate it. (sometimes it comes out not so good)

I cook a lot. I made chicken stroganoff today.

[crim son]

17. With mushrooms?

How I miss mushrooms. None of my foolish children will eat them. I cook international because I was a vegetarian for years (the husband had three heart attacks and hideously high cholesterol) so I'm fond of curries. And heat. The hotter, the better. There, I could surely trump you. Also, I'm remarkably attractive for an old woman. :P Kidding! Messing wit you. Given our recent history, it's irresistable, if childish.

[Lethe]

20. yeah i put a big ass basket of shrooms in there

i don't like the can stuff, it tastes like a can.

i love curries too, but the crappy thing is i can't get curry paste within biking distance here. :(

[crim son]

25. No canned mushrooms... anathema!

I make curries from scratch. Try Penzeys Spices for all the necessary components. They have everything except galangal (Thai ginger) which can be bought at many international markets).

I'll stop bothering you now. Thanks for writing.

[moriah]

2. Nerd-off? I'm seriously considering plunking down $1000 for a 200 lb server to sit in my bedroom.

I think I have people beat there. The sucker will use more electricity than an air conditioner and generate more heat than a furnace. While it could help me save on my gas bill this winter... hehe.

[Lethe]

6. well it depends on what the server will be used for....

do you intend to use it to store your NPC character sheets for you upcoming D&D campaign?

[moriah]

36. Even better -- I'll use it to host both a Tradewars 2002 server and a MUD.

... that is, if I can afford to keep it powered on enough.

If it truly isn't feasible to keep it powered on and cooled off in my house, I'll just use it to study for my HPUX CSA exam and then sell it and turn a tidy profit.

[arcadian]

4. You and petersond were duking it out pretty well.

But I think Rev_acts will kick both of your asses. :P

[Lethe]

7. mario kart may well be the deciding factor

or Smash Bros.

[arcadian]

11. Good one. Go in a completely different direction from fight games.

Have you played Motorstorm? Oh my f-ing god. My friend has a friggin' nine foot wide projection screen we were playing that one last weekend, that and Tekken. I wanted to move into his entertainment metroplex after we were done. The drive home at 3:00am I felt like I was still on one of the courses.

[Broken_Hero]

15. I do play a mean Jet Moto II.....:) nt

[pokerfan]

5. Can I be Dudley Dawson?

[Lethe]

8. yes, keep Ogre away from us

he has no nerd qualities and will just disrupt our competition

[pokerfan]

9. His nerd qualities were latent

as RotN II showed.

[Lethe]

13. i didnt see that one

but he was anti-nerd in the ROTN I.

also, Ted McGinley is not a nerd.

[pokerfan]

16. McGinley wasn't in that one

I think he was off destroying a sitcom.

[Broken_Hero]

14. I'll join this nerd off....

:D

[Lethe]

18. we need a star panel commitee to make up the questions

and see who is Teh Nerd Alpha.

[Broken_Hero]

19. I don't think I'll win, but I hope to place in the top 20

I got comics, and games, and magic the gathering and D and D covered...I'm a force....:D

[Lethe]

22. i was gonna post my resume but i stopped myself

i'm gonna leave some surprises :D

[Broken_Hero]

24. I didn't post my whole resume....

I just posted things, that most loungers all ready know....:D

[Lethe]

26. i understand, it's competition now

:D

[LeftyMom]

21. In my other tab I'm looking at spare parts for my Commedore 64.

That should put me in the running.

[Lethe]

23. it would interest you to know that I have both surplus SID chips and the C64c sound chips

sitting in my desk drawer.

(i cant remember the C64c model chip name, it sounds cleaner but not the classic SID sound)

[Broken_Hero]

27. Do they still have parts for the Commodore 128?

[Lethe]

28. yeah, somewhere

i had one a while back but i sold it on ebay

[Broken_Hero]

29. Damn,

my dad was a commodore man, through and through...he made us all(family) learn how to use those....

I still miss their cartridge video games....ah, Wizards of War, and Zaxxon...classics.

[Lethe]

30. dude i had the Zaxxon cartridge

i was so young, i remember playing it....it was hard cause you had to worry about the elevation of your craft. Hard for me anyways, i was really little.

[Broken_Hero]

31. Zaxxon was sweet, I loved Wizards of War

cause you could do two player mode, and zap one another...there was also...hmm, I think Pit Stop, and ...hmm, like Dungeons Wars, or something? You would walk around killing zombies, vamps, picking up new weapons and what not...the games graphics were stick figure like, but it was fun.

[LeftyMom]

37. I'm sure somebody somewhere on the tubes specializes in them.

:D

[Writer]

32. I'm about to start working on my PhD.

And do I want to teach? No. In fact, if I could research my topic for the rest of my life for pennies, I'd do that in a heartbeat.

Why? Because I'm a big 'ol...

[Lethe]

33. but what is your PhD for?

sports science....you not a nerd.

[Writer]

34. Communications.

((honk! honk!))

[Lethe]

35. that is nerdier than sports science but not as nerdy as computer science!

:D

[Writer]

38. I'm married to a computer scientist.

Does that help?

[Lethe]

39. yes

but being married automatically disqualifies you for the inner circle of nerdness

true nerds cannot connect with other live humans.

[Writer]

40. But we both live in our hermit house, soon to be decorated with countless books.

Our previous house had a hand ink-drawn map of Tolkien's Middle Earth (courtesy of Mr. Writer, the Computer Scientist), across from which hung Anduril, the Sword of Aragorn Elessar, King of Gondor and Arnor.

And we played D&D every week.

[Lethe]

41. well that is acceptable

you may be in the running now.

edit: you say you played D&D, but you will be tested on your knowledge

[moriah]

42. Bibliophiles rock.

[kedrys]

43. Metrics...we need metrics...

Selektion kriteria bitte? :P

[DarkTirade]

44. Let's see... when I was little I didn't have a Nintendo so I started drawing out my own video game

ideas. In third grade I learned to program in BASIC (and this was before QBASIC existed) and now I design my own silly little 2d games.

Also, I started designing RPGs when I was in elementary school. I now have an entire RPG universe that covers fantasy, sci-fi, cyberpunk, superhero, ect.

When the internet was new I taught myself HTML too, just because. I never bothered to learn anything too fancy, although I wouldn't mind learning ASP or PHP or something of the sort.

I drew a silly little stick figure online comic for a while, mostly to tie in with my 2d games. One of my main games was based on the spoof character I'd created named Alabama Bones. I'm sure you can guess who he's a spoof of.

Oh, and I make chainmail and dabble in leatherwork, and I used to make and sell prop lightsabers online.

[stuntcat]

45. the only think I can win's the Creep-Off

:headbang: Let me know when that's held.