What's the geekiest thing you've ever done?

[cherish44]

Me I went to a Renaissance Fair and I had a good time.

[TZ]

1. Oh I do that alot.

I would say going to Star Trek conventions and having a great time is the geekiest thing I've done though.:)

[HopeHoops]

2. Wired up an R2D2 sound-effects generator and put the speakers behind my date's ears.

This was in 8th grade right after the original Star Wars movie came out - I built the circuit myself. And in the mind of an 8th grade geeky boy, it would CLEARLY impress a girl! Needless to say, I was wrong.

[redqueen]

15. Neat...

I'd have been impressed. :)

[kentauros]

3. I did motion-sickness testing at NASA for a few weeks.

:crazy:

[mainegreen]

4. Going to a chiptunes rock concert, where people made rap and techno on gameboys

and you could play over 20 classic arcade games, or use one of the many wall screen projected video game s as well.

Nothing like drinking beer, playing Galaga on a 20 foot wide screen listing to some dude belt out rap to a gameboy, while his friend mixes it up on a SNES.


Plus, I'm a programmer, so I LIVE geek.

:D

[DS1]

5. Probably driving to Stamford CT for a LAN party with my gaming partner

and winning EVERY FUCKING THING IN SIGHT :D

(we gave most of it to the 2nd place teams, we had no use for 5 Sidewinder joysticks)

[blogslut]

6. I was once "Geek of the Week" on HotWired

But that was a million years ago, in another time.

[geardaddy]

7. Either...

Going to a LAN party to play some shoot-em-up games

or

Playing a role-playing game with friends a couple of times.

[Symarip]

8. I went to a book siging of Maddox

Yeah, the guy who writes those funny journal entries on his website maddox.xmission.com.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. Dressing up as Mr. Spock for Halloween.

Granted, I was 9 at the time. But this was 25 years after the original series had ended.

[Ohio Joe]

10. I plan vacation time around game releases

Well.. I did when I had a job :) Longest was when I took three weeks off for the Diablo II release.

[underpants]

11. I joined an Accounting fraternity

is that geeky?

[Heidi]

12. I was in band AND math club.

:yoiks:

[Cannikin]

13. Went to a convention at the Star Trek Experience and had a great time.

[ghostsofgiants]

14. Built my last two desktop computers.

Fairly geeky, I guess.

[applegrove]

16. I went to see U2 in concert. My friend wanted to wait outside their hotel because

we didn't get to see much of them in the stadium. So I said yes..this is her thing but she can't do it alone so I'll go and wait. We waited for hours outside the hotel. Never saw them.

[redqueen]

17. I've been to more than one Ren Fair, and had a good time.

And a few Star Trek conventions. And a couple of comic conventions too.

I didn't pay to go to the conventions though... not sure if that cuts down on the geek factor.

[MilesColtrane]

18. I made a mock up of the Enterprise' helm console, complete with targeting scope.

Hey, I was nine years old. Girls hadn't appeared on the long range scanners yet.

Was also in chess club in junior high.

[WildEyedLiberal]

19. I've been to a Renaissance Fair, a Star Trek convention, AND a midnight Harry Potter party

AND I was on the quiz bowl team in high school. And I've played D&D and Magic the Gathering. And I own lots of fantasy/sci-fi series novels, eg. Star Trek, Star Wars, various Wizards of the Coast series, etc. I could go on in this vein for at least half an hour.

Beat that, nerds. I win.

[cherish44]

20. A midnight Harry Potter party sounds AWESOME

even better... a LORD OF THE RINGS party. Having geek-gasms here!

[WildEyedLiberal]

21. I attended the midnight release parties for the last 3 Harry Potter books

I was "lucky" enough to be working at Barnes and Noble for one of them. :scared: It was actually really fun, though.

I so wish my local theaters had released LOTR at midnight. I'd have been there with all the people in Hobbit costumes.