Geeky Thing You Just Did Thread

Admit your geek-out moments here... we're friends... we understand. ;)

My geeky thing I just did: While watching The Big Bang Theory with my wife - I looked up Big Bang Theory/Doctor Who crossover fiction on fanfiction.net, found it, read it, and laughed.

I just went and got my jar of PeanutButter and Co.'s "Dark Chocolate Dreams" peanut butter and ate some with a spoon.

ETA: I just watched 2 half-hours back to back of "Who's Line is it Anyway?" (again)

Our cable box is going, so we spent several hours watching Mythbusters episodes we DVR'd prior to taking the box back to Comcast. We'll be able to DVR them again, tho, there's a marathon on Thanksgiving day.

Does watching Star Trek 11 for the third time in under a week count? Yesterday I decided to skip the strong painkillers I was prescribed to take after last week's surgery (should take them for another couple of days, according to the doctor) and now when I got my head screwed on right again what better to do when at home without the ability to speak ;-)

Does putting my pocket protector into my pocket count? Or sitting down to flip through several servers, 2 desktops & bringing up monitoring screens from a couple of other devices?

I'm a geek for a living, a systems administrator, basically the IT Department for a small manufacturing company.

I'm almost finished Assassin's Apprentice for the 10th(?) time, at least. I almost know it by heart. Some people read LOTR every year. I read the Realm of the Elderlings.

Just ordered the Sony Touch ereader. My granddaughter showed interest in my Sony 505 so I'm going to pass that on to her so she can geek out with it.

Don't know if its geeky but had to explain in a nutshell "The DaVinci Code" to the eye doctor last night. She'd never read it and saw I was reading "The Lost Smybol" and asked about it

Wait. Geeky? I thought it was normal behavior.

*Contemplates admitting any geeky behavior such as buying a green dragon webkinz the other day. Or researching "facts" about Star Trek on the internet while watching the new Star Trek on the big screen. Decides against telling anyone.

Edited to fix these things. Sorry guys

I picked Gallifrey as the planet I would like to live on in a facebook survey. I'm also wearing my red trainers that always make me think "Doctor Who would wear these" every time I put them on.

I also searched google unsuccessfully last night for an anti-twilight comic strip that I am sure someone posted here once but I can't find the old thread either.

ETA - I've gone all italicated and I can't remember how to fix it when I didn't start it.

</I> I geekily fixed the italicized problem in a thread.

</i>Italics closed.

Celebrated anniversary of first broadcast of Doctor Who, November 23, 1963. My kids just roll their eyes. Small collection of TARDISes (sadly none of which actually travel in time or space), including a home-made one (with a real light on top) on a stick that we use as our tarp marker for the Folk Fest so our friends can find our tarp.

I am not alone in my geekiness, though - my husband's blackberry says "Incoming subspace signal" in Lt. Uhura's voice when he gets a text message from one of his co-workers and has a twang (arrow hitting) sound followed by "message for you, sir!" from Monty Python's Holy Grail when he gets one from anyone else. Also, Homer Simpson says "The mail! The mail is here! Ooh!" for incoming emails.

I posted on librarything. About my online catalogue of my collection of books. Does life get more geeky?

@ #3

Wow, first the kindle, now the cable box. Jinx!

I sharpened all of the pencils laying loose in the house.

We're supposed to be cleaning the house for Thanksgiving - there will be 9 this year - but the round-ended pencils... they called to me.

I also tested the accuracy of two of my slide rules.

Your wife must be so grateful for your help. :-)

WHL, are you sure we didn't inadvertently (and unknowingly) date a few years ago? That behavior sounds exactly like something my ex-boyfriend would do.

Shiny thing! Shiny thing!

(Still love him, though . . .)

I'm pretty sure we didn't - your Profile Picture has snow in it, and I've been deleriously married for eight and a half years now, so it's highly unlikely. I'm sure that if we ~had~ dated, we would have gotten along quite nicely.

Oh, WHL, you're so sweet. No, I'm quite sure it wasn't you I dated, but nevertheless he was the type to start tidying and then get totally sidetracked sharpening pencils, putting his DVDs in chronological order . . . you know, the kind of stuff company really notices.

I, on the other hand, am never compulsive and am impossible to sidetrack . . .

Oh, yeah: my geeky thing? I came back to LT to check for WHL's response instead of getting ready for a meeting tonight. (Shiny thing! Shiny thing!)

#5-Jimmaclachlan- i just checked out your profile & i'd say that labeling all your trees with their common & Latin names qualifies as quite geeky IMHO! 8^)

#22 - Yeah, I guess I'm a wood geek, too. I'm a member of the International Wood Collectors Society. While we have members all around the world, there are only about 1100 of us.

I guess the latest geeky thing I did was installed the drivers for my microscope on my new computer tonight. It's a kid's toy, the Digital Blue, but it has 10x, 60x & 200x power, both top & bottom lighting & is perfect for looking at wood samples & other stuff - all for under $100. This is a seriously cool gift idea for anyone of any age. you should see what a tiny ant looks like. You can take pictures on the PC with it. Very cool.

#16 I know! But at least it won't cost us to return the cable box.

Today, my geeky thing was getting the new Kindle up and running, and after reading a bit, running to LT to report on it.

I love it! It's much thinner than a K1, and has a few improvements, but is much the same. No regrets.

I'm still unsure about that....

Squirrels!

Well... I'm typing a message on a LibraryThing forum, while IM'ing with a pal in another window; I've just set up my Kindle to get the latest software update, which I found out about by checking Amazon's forum. Deciding whether I want to open up a streaming video in another window. Are we geeky enough yet?

I'm listening to the Muppets singing Bohemian Rhapsody for the Nth time today. I think I had a nerdgasm watching it.

:-D My vote so far goes to Will.

I am irredeemably pre-geek: I hand-wrote thank you notes to all the participants in my recently completed holiday bazaar. And I'm sitting on the sofa not watching CNN while my dogs sleep all about. Going to bed next...definitely not a geeky behavior.

Where to begin? I think just being me is an extremely geeky activity!

Okay, okay, here's one. While at dinner with a bunch of old friends the other night, sitting across from a young lady I had been interested in years ago and still find myself very attracted to, against all common sense, logic and defying all intelligent intergender communication protocols, I STILL somehow found the conversation steered towards King Kong and Godzilla. *slaps forehead*

I attempted to read an 818 page Japanese fantasy novel in hardcover, (It was called Brave Story) and FINISHED IT.

It's kind of like that Death Note clip where Light says he'll take a potato chip... AND EAT IT...

Ahem *adjusts epic voiceover*

I'll take an 818 page hardcover Japanese fantasy novel... AND FINISH IT...

Yesterday, I found myself installing a lot of Windows software on a laptop - in preparation of moving to Linux as the only operating system.

(BIOS update tool, CD burning program to do some backups, .NET framework and DirectX for the CD burning program, etc.)

I just ordered the 2009 Star Trek Movie calendar for 2010 from a Science Fiction/Fantasy Bookshop as a Christmas present for my son.

#6 Can't imagine how re-reading anything by Robin Hobb could be considered not normal.

I geeked away an hour yesterday studying the difference in warp speed ratings between TOS and TNG.

#35 > Now that IS geeky! Much more so than tagging trees.

Changed my vote. You got it, duke

I'd like to accept this award, on behalf of geeks everywhere...

I think I'm more of a repressed nerd. I love so many geeky things, and enjoy hanging out with geeks and reading about them, but I don't act out many of my impulses in that way. Except that I am a pusher of Dr. Who. I continue to try to get my friends and family hooked on the series, with limited success. Does it count that I went to bed very concerned last night after watching "The Waters of Mars?" I was fretting for the Dr. and his psyche.

#35 - *snff!* beautiful, simply beautiful!

And they say the Golden Days of Fandom are over...

My friends and I spent about half an hour yesterday pulling apart 'The Waters of Mars', analysing plot holes, determining what we would have done in their place, and how we would have selected people for the Bowie Base in the first place.

#35 Not as Geeky as those who already knew it. ;)

In TNG, Warp 10 was the ultimate 'limit' that could never be achieved, and warp 9.6 was their typical max cruising speed. In TOS, warp 6 was the cruising speed, and warp 8 was the emergency max, but heck, you could go up to warp 13, 14, etc. if you wanted back in those days. There was no limit.

Finally, late in the NextGen universe they put in this stupid speed limit of warp 5, saying that going beyond that created nasty problems in space-time... effectively creating 'pollution'

:D

43> I did know it, but was curious as to how it compares to the scale for the warp engine I've been building in my head. Yes, there is room in there for a work shop.

I just purchased a Star Wars ringtone for my new phone: 'The Imperial March' from The Empire Strikes Back.

Yesterday I, a significantly post-adolescent woman, went "squeeee!" because my 2010 Con of the North catalog finally arrived.

Gosh, now wondering why I'm not more geeky. Does watching Doctor Who when you don't really actually like it any more count? Afraid I think they've wandered off course (not unlike the dear old Tardis, of course) in the last couple of years. But my husband and I still watch every one, including the Waters of Mars, for - well, completeness, I suppose. We are of the generation that is convinced Tom Baker is the REAL Doctor, although I have a fondness for Patrick Troughton too, and that opening music just IS Saturday early evening.

What else? Well, I've got an iPhone and love it to bits, and get told off for checking incoming emails even at the meal table. That's pretty good, isn't it?

My geekiness only extends to playing Munchkin with my sons today (I was a level 5 warrior dwarf by game's end which isn't very impressive I know. I only achieved level 5 by going into battle once against a potted plant and by purchasing a level at price of 1000 gold pieces). Munchkin is a fun spoof of role playing games.

Tonight we will watch the StarTrek reboot movie and eat popcorn.

That's as geeky as I get in middle-age.

I played the Star Trek Edition of Monopoly today! I'll be watching the Star Trek movie a little later....again.

I just ordered a Han Solo mousepad. A steampunk one too. From Zazzle.

I watched Wrath of Khan today, which makes it imperative to watch Search for Spock asap. It was superfunny, and unexpectedly good. Watching TOS is an endeavour in cheap set and prop design but the films were cranked up a bit, which I had forgotten as I hadn't watched any of the old films in some 6 years or so.

The funny bit is all the things Kirk says in Wrath of Khan that he also gets to say in the reboot.

On warp speed. I remember a particularly horrible Voyager episode where Tom Paris and Janeway gets into a shuttle that makes it to warp 10, resulting in some genetic disaster transmogrifying them into giant slugs (that mates and gets offspring).

I am so grateful that those steering the Star Trek enterprise ;-) at that time is no longer part of the crew...

Khaaaaaaannnnnnnn :)

:)

What about these lines, on the topic of Kobayashi Maru -

Saavik: I do not believe this was a fair test of my command abilities.
Kirk: And why not?
Saavik: Because... there was no way to win.
Kirk: A no-win situation is a possibility every commander may face. Has that never occurred to you?

Now, does that sound familiar, but the other way around? ;-)

Am I a geek fro knowing about Hidden Frontier? If so OtherHalf wins the geekier contest having watched it all.

We watched the new Star Trek movie again last night also. :) I still couldn't watch the scene of young Kirk in the car. Hate, hate, hate it.

55> Indeed, anyone who wrecks a classic like that should lose his transporter privileges.

Installed a virtual machine so I can run XP mode on my new Windows 7, Intel I7, 8 core PC. Admit it, you're all green with envy. ;-)

It's cold and flu season, make sure you close those Windows© before you get a virus.

I geeked out in a used books store, browsing the whole fantasy/sf shelf author by author for about two hours, until finally deciding on ten titles. And then went to Barnes & Noble and geeked out even more for FOUR hours, browsing the whole store. Sad that I could only buy five more books. I'm thinking of going back tomorrow. I already got an additional suitcase to pack books in, so it's not like I can't buy any more for lack of space! :D

I just spent 10 minutes reviewing my lab test results (taken today) on-line and spent another 2 minutes emailing my physicial about another issue. Way quicker than waiting for written test results in the mail, and trying to ask questions through office personnel on the phone. Some parts of "modern" life are pretty nice. And I am "geeky" enought to know how to do this with out sweating.

#57 Eight cores? Does it glow octarine and cackle quietly when you think you've turned it off.

I'll let you off if you sign up for Climateprediction.net

#61 Oooh no way Graffotti. The power used by my super-powerful PC depends on the work it is doing. It has a utility which shows how much carbon emission it has produced since I first switched it on (seriously - this is no joke). If I sign up to hand over it's unused capacity it will fire up its 8 cores and the carbon emissions will rocket.

#62 Cool. That's smarter than I expected it to be.

The geeky thing I did yesterday was finish off my last two large CPDN models, add up the CPU time I've contributed and conclude that any further would add more to the problem (and my electricity bill) than I could personally square with helping to understand it ... so I agree with you, but I'm still envious :-)

ETA: Although in theory CPDN uses spare capacity, like many people, in practice I ran them 24x7

#61 I run MilkyWay, QMC, SETI and LHC which hasn't yet caused the Earth to implode.

And yes, you have to be pretty geeky to even know what I'm talking about!

Don't know whether this is geeky or sad. Spent hours playing Guild Wars and wishing my friends wanted to play with google wave as much as I want to!

Watched "V" (new version) on abc.com - on a laptop with headphones while the rest of the family was watching another show on the regular TV.

Is Babylon 5 still geeky? Cause I watched a couple of episodes today. Otherwise, minimal geekiness today.

I just finished watching the last episode of a Thanksgiving Day marathon of the originial Twilight Zone that I'd PVR'd. *sigh* It was lovely to see Rod Serling doing his intro, smoking his cigarette(!!!), all the old sets, some corny episodes, some good ones - even one with William Shatner, lol.

MrsLee, Will, Joanna, it's very frustrating to know you've all seen the new Dr. Who, and I still have almost 3 weeks to wait! Argh!!!! Maybe I should figure out how to watch tv episodes on the internet. Guess I'm not as geeky as I thought ;-)

The original Twilight Zones are classics! Serling didn't have much of a budget, but overcame that with terrific writing (even if he did write some in a day!) & some of the best acting ever. Some of the episodes had almost no props, not just cheesy ones. 'Big' with Mickey Rooney was all set in a single hotel room, but was fantastic for all that. The stars that appeared & were discovered in those episodes is long & amazing.

OK i'll own up to my own geekiness - Last night I watched the extended version of the Fellowship of the Ring *with* the cast commentary on *blushes* I have a weird addiction to the LOTR films and the whole process of filming them so much so that I've watched basically everything there is on the extended dvds and love listening to the commentaries cos they're actually rather funny. I'll go hide now before someone sets the men in white coats on my nerdy ass.

That is quite funny, LadyViolet! My son bought the box set with about six (?) hours of extras, and we watched them together one Christmas. Husband and elder son pushed off upstairs and left us to it. I loved the background on the design and art work - such care over the detail - and we both thought the guy in charge of the Weta workshop was a hoot. Looked so like Postman Pat for a start.

I spent most of the six (or was it nine?) hours waiting for information on the horses used, as that's one of my abiding interests, and thought it was lovely that Viggo Mortensen had bought the grey for the horse handler. He was 100 miles away from my idea of Aragorn, but this feature showed he is a proper horseman and made me warm to him after all.

I suppose that is fairly geeky, then. But we didn't watch the films with the commentary - you're on your own there!

#70-I have the original VCRs,the limited edition 2 disk DVDs, & the special edition extended DVD versions w/all the extras & i have watched every hour of the all-some more than once! I watch the extended versions several times each. I also have the National Geographic special about Tolkien & LOTR as well as the Rankin-Bass versions of LOTR & the HOBBIT. I also have 80 books by or about Tolkien & his writings(see my library). I also have a lot of Lord of the Rings collectibles (trading cards etc.). Thinking about this it occurs to me that its about time to put the movies into my queue for winter viewing.

Right now i'm watching a special on PBS about the science in Star Trek-it is called Science Trek & it is brand new. 8^)

PS:There is a book I'm Working on That co-authored by none other than William Shatner.

edited to correct book title.

>Joanna It never occurred to me before that Richard Taylor (see I'm that nerdy I know tons of the crew's names) looked like Postman Pat but I do think you're right! I'm gonna laugh so hard now when I watch the special features again.
Oh yea there's a section of the features on the Two Towers extended dvd features I think which is all about the horses- I also really liked how Viggo not only bought the stallion for Jane but how he also bought the horse he rode (whose name I know but can't spell) during the filming. Just watching the films made me want to learn how to ride- I've been on a horse once and that was in france where I didn't get things properly explained to me so I would like to have lessons at some point in England when I can actually understand what to do if the damn horse starts to trot away with me bouncing about on the saddle. While it was fun it did result in me quipping how glad I was to be a girl after the horse slowed down again ;)

>Vanye I do really want to gain a better knowledge about the world in the books since I did see the films before I read the books and as much as I hate to admit I currently prefer the films as I found it hard to get through all the blasted songs and poems littered throughout the books. I still need to read The Hobbit which I will have to do at some point in the near future and I would like to build a collection of all the Tolkien works for my future library which I intend on having when I get my own house.

Ah yes, LadyV, Richard Taylor - I remember. It was two years ago that we watched them.

Sadly it is becoming ever harder to find a good riding school. The litigious world we live in has sent public liability insurance skyrocketing and has put many riding schools out of business. I don't teach riding although I do fix horses with behavioural problems (which is often caused by their owners having behavioural problems!). If you go for it my best advice is to trust your instincts and if something doesn't feel right to you, find somewhere else. And if they tell you to hit your horse, don't, and definitely find somewhere else! If you care to visit my website (www.joanna-oneill.com) you'll find some horsy stuff.

By the way, I hope your flat problems got sorted out.

>74 JoannaON: Joanna
Unfortunately we still haven't got rid of the FFH but for the most part now he's behaving a bit better although we do believe that he shaved off his rather overgrown beard in the kitchen the other day as there was a lot of dubious looking hair in the bin and on the dustpan and brush. But we're tolerating him for the time being as we don't really have to energy to go through all the rigmarole of getting rid of him on top of our studies, general daily life and our current hunt for our second-year flat (here in Aber the hunt for houses starts crazy early).

Viggo also bought the horse he rode in Hidalgo. How nice of him to love horses so much. Mmmm, Viggo.

I watched several hours of the Star Wars original trilogy on TV this afternoon/evening.

Oh, well, if we are considering LoTR movie stuff geeky...

My son's friend asked me what my favorite movie was, after looking through my hoard of movies, and I said, "Lord of the Rings, duh!" :) Then my son told her that whatever version she would like to watch, his mom has it, in VHS and DVD. I have watched them all multiple times. Um, yep, and I bought my "son" the action figurines from the movie, but get very antsy when his friends want to touch them and play with them. I have to leave the room.

We have LoTR Monopoly, Trivia, Chess and some game or other which we never did figure out how to play. Also the trading cards. O.K., I'll stop now. I won't mention all the books about the movies. Or the painting of the one ring with its lettering which surrounds the ceiling of my son's room. Or the fancy, expensive jewelry I've bought my son and daughter. Happily, they are my excuse to buy the things, because they love them too.

I just spent an hour looking through the ThinkGeek catalog, planning Christmas. For the kids, uh huh.

I'm not much for tie in books but I have watched and enjoyed the cast commentary and all the 'making of' extras of LoTR. But I'm not geeky. I just wish I was working at a sfx department ;-)

Uhm, I might have to take back the 'not much for tie in book' thing. I do own some on Star Trek. But not many. I think Is Data Human was interesting. And I love The Art of Star Trek.
And some LoTR stuff, but all of those were gifts.

Watched Voyage Home today, for lunch. Last day at home, tomorrow work begin in earnest again.

Created the first of four surveys for us to vote for the ### Science Fiction Books To Read Before a Supernova Kills Us All!

Have any of the Tolkien fans heard excerpts read by him? A long time ago, I found some tapes in a library with Tolkien reading. What a treat to hear Treebeard voiced by his creator! Although I am a big fan of John Rhys-Davies, it amuses (and confuses) me to hear how similar Treebeard and Gimli sound.

On a personal geeky note, I watched "Episode IV" of Star Wars (which will always be "the first movie" for me, despite the add-ins and new titles). I definitely recited some of the dialogue. Well, I might have been half a beat off, but I chimed in on "Let the Wookie win" and "foul stench" and one or two other favorites. I didn't recall how incredibly young Han Solo was! And Luke seemed barely old enough to shave!

I'm in total agreement with you.

I get to say ALL the lines every time I watch any of the original three SW films with my son - he can't read the subtitles yet, and being a swedish kid he don't understand english, so I get to translate for him. I think C3P0 is the most fun to impersonate, and the Emperor.

Yep, saying the lines is a great deal of the fun I have in watching. I personally love warbling along with the Tauntauns in The Empire Strikes Back & cackling along with Salacious Crumb, the Kowakian monkey-lizard in Return of the Jedi. My roommate's dog gives me the weirdest, concerned look when I imitate Star Wars creatures.

I bought a set of Pez dispensers last year with the original Star Trek characters.

#82 - I think there are some recordings of Tolkien reading on YouTube. He had a lovely voice and reading aloud ability.

I haven't checked out much YouTube. TPTB at work have the nerve to block it! I recently bought a home computer and am gradually building up my home surfing favorites. YouTube seems too big to check out; so many that I may regret viewing, too. I will venture out, but may rely on friends for most of those links. Thanks!

Now whoever would have thought old JRR was up to the minute on using YouTube...

currently geeking out learning my new Sony 600 Touch reader. I'm going to pass on my perfectly good and beloved 505 to my granddaughter who expressed an interest. I figure I should encourage her, neh?

And it gives me an excuse to buy a newer geek toy.

It's all good!

OK, I was going to answer "watching The Big Bang Theory and actually getting the jokes" or "knowing what a Jeffries thingy is in Star Trek", which seems to me very geeky, but obviously we're not on the same league.

*watch and learn*

(Oh, and I sometimes agree with Sheldon, does that make me more geeky ? Or just plain crazy ?)

>48 jillmwo: And what is geeky about battling a potted plant, jillmwo? It sounds like my life. They usually win by dying on me.

#90 It's a Jefferies Tube, duh! ;-)

Named for Matt Jeffries, of course.

and the co-inventor, Alexander Tube.

Part of me was jazzed my social event tonight got cancelled because it means I can stay home and knit and watch Mythbusters.

That sounds lovely, littlegeek. I get to knit and watch The Good Wife and listen to the freezing rain pelt against the windows.

I'm a Gleek.

(Just watched Glee.)

So am I. I stayed up late to watch the episode I got the other day. *blushes*

What? I'm a broadway geek!

Played a three-player match of Magic: The Gathering with my brother who is visiting and a friend from high school. Even though my brother has never played it before he still won. We used about three of my spare decks. I think that says something about me.

We also played Risk and Monopoly afterwards. My brother is secretly Sarah Palin I swear, because he was attacking the Prussian states from Alaska. The Monopoly game was even more intense once the hotels started going up. I had all the Railroads, and eventually the Utilities as well. For a time in the game I was drinking people's milkshake, until my brother and my friend set up a Corner of Doom (TM) which had hotels and houses all the way up two sides of the board.

I'm growing extra geek, because I'm hankering after a game of "Chez Geek!" due to reading this thread.

In Monopoly, the utilities and railroads are a losing proposition.

In terms of payoff, and winning, you really want to go for the orange, red, yellow, and the purple before the oranges.

And stay in jail as much as you can later in the game. Collect rent from your cell.

The orange and reds are the biggies. Trade away the rest of your properties to get these, with gullible players who think they are getting a better deal, and then watch everyone land on them, again and again.

Does sitting in your room quoting blocks of text from The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy (the book, not the movie) to cheer yourself up count as geeky? 'Cause if so, then I'm in.

Or, how about being online on your computer, using the browser function of your iPod Touch, and texting on your phone all at the same time? That's a frequent occurrence.

Discussing binary and its functions?

Admitting that you get xkcd?

If watching Glee obsessively counts, then I'm good there too. ;) And Chuck. And Fringe. And Dollhouse.

I think the question we should all be asking ourselves is "where does the geeky-ness end?"!

#92 : I knew there was something wrong, but couldn't bring myself to check on Google.

Bah, I'm definitely out of the geek competition :)

Binary has functions?

#104.

Sure.

There's the obvious math tables: 0 + 0 = 0, 0 + 1 = 1, 1 + 1 = 10, and the obvious other one (multiplication, all answers = 0, except 1*1 = 1).

Then there's the logical ones:

INCLUSIVE OR: (x OR y = 1, unless both x and y are 0)
AND: (x AND y = 0, unless both x and y are 1)
NOT: (NOT x = 1 if x was 0, 0 if x was 1)
EXCLUSIVE OR (called XOR): (x XOR y = 1 if *either* x or y is 1, 0 if neither or both are 1)

The cool things about XOR are this:

x XOR 0 = x
x XOR x = 0

This means x XOR (y XOR y) = x, since (y XOR y) is 0, and x XOR 0 is X.

This also leads to a fun way to swap two numbers, x and y:

just do:

x = x XOR y
y = x XOR y
x = x XOR y

This turns out to be, considering original values to be:

x = x XOR y
y = (x XOR y) XOR y ... which we know is really just y = x, since y XOR y = 0.
x = (x XOR y) XOR x, which we know is "y"

And stay in jail as much as you can later in the game. Collect rent from your cell.


Maybe this explains the mortgage meltdown!

#101 the brown aren't bad for a very cheap hit, either. Otherwise totally agree. Green are as useless as the utilities.

Posted in the forum of a book cataloguing website.

Read Cake Wrecks today... http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/12/syfy-sacrilege.html

I just made and posted, in an appropriate forum, a pencil sketch outlining a fictive spaceship from a fictive universe, built by a fictive species looking a bit primate, as a comment to a discussion on alien ship design as in the Cherryhverse.

Hunting down an image of an actor cast in Game of Thrones for a hunky guy thread on GD.

105 - That's the first time I've actually understood those functions.

But surely 10 * 10 = 100, even in binary?

HAH! Found a registry hack to permanently disable the caps lock key! One of my major annoyances!

YES, THAT CAN BE ANNOYING, CAN'T IT?

Currently watching Star Trek:The Original Series on my iPod while I work. I also just put some flare on my desk...
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3411373&l=f0a03f3845&id=578521173

Does that count?

Update: I forgot about this
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3256996&l=c5c26e7987&id=578521173

I watched the new movie Star Trek last night. I love the fact that Leonard Nimoy still gets involved.

Like many others here, saw Star Trek XI...again...but with all the special features! It took us a couple of nights to finish them all.

I'm knitting a Jayne hat...for a Christmas present. So I'm being geeky AND enabling someone else's geekiness. I'm also crocheting a katamari for my brother. Will the craft-based geekiness never end!?!

Checked Memory Alpha and found that they expect the sequel to the 2009 Star Trek to be released in 2012......(sigh)!!

I just went to the Green Dragon Chat room and ordered an ale.

2012! So long to wait. In terms of Firefly, I've decided listening to the soundtrack is conducive to studying.

I just finished The Stupidest Angel and decided that I need more xmas comedy so I downloaded Hogfather to my kindle because I loaned out my paperback. Fantasy geekitude with instant gratification sauce.

Today we bought a hallmark ornament that's a TOS type 1 phaser. I've already put the batteries in it to test the lights and sounds...
B-)

I found a Sulu action figure in a bargain bin yesterday. Did I buy it for my grandson? Nope. Did I buy it? Yup.

Was it Sulu from the episode where he was half naked and waving the sword?? I love that episode ;-) Yay MerryMary!! (does that count for geekiness?)

Unfortunately, no. He's fully clothed.

I loved that episode. Sulu grabs Uhura and says "I'll save you, Fair Maiden." And she says, "Sorry. Neither." One of the best lines ever.

I still have my Sulu (and Kirk, Spock, McCoy, etc) action figures from the 70s. Never for sale, either :-Þ

I am watching the LOTR movie on TNT this am. *delicate sigh* Lovely.

Mary Lou, you are my hero - you know all the best lines from TOS!! :-D

I don't think it counts as "geekiness" since it was all for other people, but I just dropped a bundle of dough into the ThinkGeek account for Xmas gifts.

I came in from the shop to find my wife crying at the end of "Return of the King". So then we sat down & watched Men In Black.

I just got a ThinkGeek catalog in the mail. What a hoot! What degree of geekishness is it when I want everything - for me?

We laughed hysterically as our brand new roomba turned our Christmas tree on by running over the switch on the power adapter that is plugged into. We couldn't find an extension cord, you see, but we have lots of power strips...and then we watched the Fifth Element streamed through NetFlix on the XBox 360 after my boyfriend finished watching Transformers: Revenge of the Missing Plotline. Then, the next day we played DragonAge while eating pizza right from the box...and that was just this weekend.

Also, pretty sure that part of my Christmas present this year will be a titanium spork...my ThinkGeek wishlist is long, but the titanium spork will probably win.

Yesterday, I added to my collection of Spongebob helium balloons!

I just watched a couple of interviews with Jamie Bamber and James Callis from the Starfury con on youtube. And I hated the last season and a half of BSG. Man, they had some cute boys, tho.

Spent a good part of the weekend and last night watching dvr'd saved episodes of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.

I'm taking a class in html and I am working on a group project.

Does discussing what 2010 will bring utilising Google Wave count? Me and a handful of colleagues are making predictions for the IT/IS biz in Sweden.

Feels geeky to me. Even without Star Trek references ;-)

Does adding the "IPlayWoW" app to my Facebook page count?

I just shrunk the partition on a 90 gb SATA drive down & cloned it to a 60 gb solid state drive. It's for a laptop we're going to use to log sound system tests on motorcycles.

Just visited the ThinkGeek website, I particularly like the Curse of Nametags T-shirt page.

I wonder if the Tarquin-FintimlinbinwhinbimlimbusstopFtangFtangOleBiscuitbarrel.me.uk domain is still available ... don't dare look in case I cannot resist temptation ...

Ooooh - They have Dread Pirate Roberts action figures. That was not in my catalog.

book-related thinkgeek item: liquid bookmark

perfect for vampire novel reading geeks

Listening to Weird Al's "White & Nerdy."

Grabbed my daughter's arm and showed her, all excited, the Scene-It! Star Trek Version game at Future Shop today. She smiled and nodded and pointed to the Twilight version. I smiled and nodded.

Wouldn't it be great fun for us all to get together and play the Star Trek game?? I think Busifer, MerryMary, Clamairy, and JPB would leave the rest of us in the dust though eh?

I got a new speaker/alarm clock for my ipod. I was using the remote the other day and suddenly realized the way I was holding it seemed familiar ... so I immediately called a friend's boyfriend and asked if he could help me make the remote look like a sonic (or laser) screwdriver.

No luck yet - he's great with computers but this is a bit out of his range of expertise. I may have to try it on my own, and based on my past experiences with electrical items (or anything involving tools), I'll probably be starting a "Geeky Way You Set Your House on Fire/Went to the Hospital" thread in the near future.

The only Star Trek I really know is TOS. I know a few things about NG, and next to nothing about the others.

Is there a new opening for a Nerd at Librarything? I can furnish my resume upon request but for now here are some of my qualifications for the job...

Building a model Tardis for the holidays. Wishing I was in Uhura's shoes in the Star Trek reboot. Searched in vain for hours for a good interactive Star Trek screensaver. Asked for Geeky t-shirts with science and math jokes for the holidays (like that one depicting the evolution of man except that the human turns around and tells the more ape-like predecessors/ancestors to stop following him). Am going to only attend the company holiday party for 30min (though I did RSVP) because found out that there will be a lecture on Evolution at the same time by a popular science writer. Replaced all the windows noises on my laptop with sound effects and clips from Star Trek TOG and TNG. Refuse to concede that Star Trek: Nemesis ever happened. Believes that "Let me show you a faster way to solve the Rubik's Cube" means "I love you". Saved the last few episodes of Firefly because I didn't want the show to be over and by the time I decided to watch it, the last episodes were gone from Hulu. Am saving an "antique" personal computer in my basement for posterity's sake that the family wanted to toss (it uses data cassettes). I am considering using modular math when giving my age, in a few years.

I hope you agree that I am a perfect candidate for Nerd. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call me at 001-110-1010. I look forward to speaking with you soon.

:-P

An 'interactive Star Trek desktop', that is...

I love Weird Al....

#148 One day, I'd love to replave the "beep-you've done something wrong" noise with Greensleeves, the line that goes "Alas my love you do me wrong".

I think you need a little time away from the computer, Hugh.

#151 > I replaced my Windows error with "Oops! Gravity works." said by Robin Williams when he played an escaped lab bat (with an electrode still in his head) in Fern Gully. I quickly tired of it & cut it down to just "Oops!". Much better than the beep.

My computer also has Arnie saying, "I'll be back" from the Terminator when it shuts down.

yingyang - the whole Firefly series is available from Netflix. I usually rewatch it every year!

#146 - We await that thread with eagerness! ;) Only, make it a not very serious hospital visit, please.

Last night at the office Xmas party, when a co-worker drew the #42 for the raffle, I exclaimed, "Oh, the answer to life, the universe, and everything!" Yep, everyone was looking at my third eye with that lost expression. I suppose they were examining me to see if I had had too much to drink.

You just need to hang out here where we understand, MrsLee.

Not getting 42 - eeks I thought everybody knew that by now!

I spent the morning wandering through Best of Year and Best of Decade book lists of various publications and then going to amazon to buy interesting books. (btw, a Salon blogger has a nice compendium, if you're interested.)

I am amazon's bitch.

I went to ThinkGeek (thanks for the intro GD) for the first time to wander around, got t-shirts for the two nephews:
'I Void Warranties' and

'$DO || ! $DO ; try
try: command not found'
(aka "Do or do not. There is no try.")

And I can't wait for anyone I know to get pregnant so I can buy them this:

My friend and I were talking about comic con today, which is geeky enough, but then I admitted to owning the Star Trek TOS phaser and communicator (from ThinkGeek, of course). They looked at me kind of funny, but then came up with some extremely obscure LOTR trivia, so we ended up on equal geekiness levels.

I admit to being the proud owner of a pet Tribble but, after our dog once took a liking to it, it's "tribble" has never been the same since.

Well, this month's geeky moment will be adding the Star Trek ornament to the tree when I get it fully decorated (Cmndr Data at his console). The ornament was purchased for my youngest as a gift. Our tree also features Superman doing his Up-Up-And-Away as well.

If you are wondering, we also have several Santa Claus ornaments as well as a creche ornament.

We just bought the phaser ornament. Our youngest (and only) got Thomas the tank.
Yesterday we got alarmed door braces, is that at all geeky?

I have a Tribble & a little book that came w/it too! I don't have any critters around to chew on it tho. 8^)

I laughed myself silly over this ST:TNG redub.

(And then I wrote that thoroughly geeky sentence just there...)

#165 "Jesus is a raisin." OMG, that was hilarious!!! (Going back to watch again.)

The other geeky thing I just did was watch a buttload of interviews with Dan Radcliffe and Tom Felton about the Deathly Hallows. God, I'm a dork.

littlegeek; please share the website, I want to watch the interviews with Dan and Tom too!

I get most of my Potter news at The Leaky Cauldron. I was just browsing around their video archives.

edited to fix link. D'oh!

#145 - I think GD would make the rest of us look like beginners, but I'm game for a round.
The series I'm best at is TNG, followed by TOS and Voyager (and the movies). And I've only watched the two first seasons of DS9, and the first of Enterprise...

#151 - I used to have the red alert sound from ST for 'fail' sound. Five computers later I no longer personalise on that level... but some times I miss that sound!

I've been lurking (now there's a Geek word) on this thread, admiring from afar the impressive geekiness levels of all you people posting.

Then I suddenly thought of the people out there who are so far in the opposite direction they are practically out of sight. I have a friend who has the old, default Nokia ring tone on her phone. How can ANYONE stick with that? This is taking UNgeekiness to a ridiculous level.

I have told her off but she just won't do as she's told.

I just finished putting about 3 dozen bookmarks into the three-ring binder with all my other bookmarks.

171> I can top that. I don't own a cellphone. Never have.
:-Þ

173> Join the non-cellphone club. There are 4 in my house but none of them is mine (husband has 1, older son has 2 (one for work, one personal), younger son has 1). Used to be 5 when husband had a work one and a personal one.

Mind you, cellphone use is so ubiquitous that NOT having one is probably more geeky.

174>Thanks, I was worried I might lose my geek status!

Just wrote lesson plans for January... I teach 2nd grade fiction/nonfiction by reading Owl Moon by Jane Yolen and compare/contrast with All About Owls by Jim Arnosky. I show them www.owlpages.com . I admit that I spent some time (all in the name of education of course) listening to the recordings of the hoots of various owls.

Is that geeky, or just being a teacher/librarian? Sometimes the lines get blurry...

#176 - You're a great teacher/librarian! What a wonderful lesson. I wish I had had you in second grade.

#171 - I wish I still had the old Nokia tone. The ones loaded on the phone I have now are SO obnoxious! They do it on purpose so I will buy one of their ringtones but I refuse and leave my phone on vibrate.
So there!

I'm happy settling for a ring tone "from stock" so to speak, but my sons make their own by selecting a bar or two of music. My elder son chose three bars from the middle of a weird and little known song by a weird and little known indie band-cum-barbershop-ensemble. Now comes the creepy part: so did my younger son. Same song, same band, same three bars. Neither knew the other had done it (they are away at university now) until the vacation, when the ringtone sounded and both reached for their phones. How's that!

Is that creepy-geeky or geeky-creepy?

Maybe creepy was the wrong word. Maybe not even geeky. Peculiar, though, and somehow significant...

I think it's cute & funny. But then my kids tell me I'm strange.

Bought some plastic 3-ring binder sleeves to organize my Atari 2600 game manuals.

Googled Geek and Took the Geek test (just to be sure - so here are the results!)

Geek Test Results

You are 42.5% geeky.

OK, not that geeky at all, are you? I'll bet you even have a girlfriend (or boyfriend).

The current average score is: 32.63%

Fact: 18.92% of people who took this test believe in The Force.

Edit to add Does this up my geek score?

Do real geeks worry about their geekness?

Probably no more than non-geeks worry about their non-geekiness. I'm not as big a geek as some, but I enjoy the geekness I have.

#164 I enjoy finding fellow Star Trek geeks like Vanye. Still feel geeky but not quite so weird :o)

You are among friends.

I got all excited about the giant hexagon they found on Saturn. The shape covers the north pole of the planet. Mystery.

I'm a total space geek!

Edited to add: I also love hexagons. More so than should be healthy.

Perhaps watching *The Big Bang Theory* on tv might provide useful clues in helping to determine your level of geekiness. If the characters irritate you beyond all measure, then you are clearly not a geek; if you recognize some of the characters and situations as familiar through your social connections, you are most likely some percentage geek. But if you really don't understand why people are laughing during the show because it seems entirely normal behavior, then you are definitely a geek and among friends here.

I'm sure there are flaws in that theory, but I haven't been overly geeky this week so I thought I'd offer up this as my sop to the thread.

But if you really don't understand why people are laughing during the show because it seems entirely normal behavior, then you are definitely a geek and among friends here.

In this case I'd substitute "geek" with "nerd". Really. The difference between a nerd and a geek is that a geek have some insight into his/her illness, while nerds has no clue whatsoever ;-)

Ten minutes ago, while browsing thru a book catalog (and wishing the school district would give me more money to buy books), and happened on this title: American Nerd: the Story of My People by Benjamin Nugent

Here's the blurb: grades 9 up
Explores the history of the nerd in popular culture and throughout modern history. Complete with personal anecdotes and historical perspectives, this book is perfect for every nerd or nerd at heart.

*goes off to see if it's available in the public library catalog*

I also found this one on the same page that sounds (not geeky/nerdy, just interesting)
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Yesterday was furlough day and this was how we spent it: Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum then Rifftrax Live! A whole movie theatre filled with geeks! All around the country! On the same night! Geeks representing!

We're going to see Cinematic Titanic live in February.

I broke my glasses last night and used a combination of hot glue and wire to be able to see to drive. I'm taking my family to see Avatar in the Imax theater today.

Got a Nook for Christmas.

Is it really geeky of me to be ultra happy that my parents listened to my incessant griping about lack of space for my books and actually bought me some shelves for christmas? Cos frankly I was as chuffed about that as I was to get all the socks I did- it is darn cold in Wales in winter so I need all the fluffy socks I can get.

My mom made the comment last night that she hadn't seen a tv show about the White House Christmas with the First Lady...no idea if Michelle Obama had such a program, but I googled the White House and found pictures for her to look at...(check out the gingerbread reproduction of the White House!)...anyway Mom was pretty impressed as she is not a computer user.

Impressing your mother is always a win.

I was excited at getting not one, but *two* teapots for Christmas!

>196 theretiredlibrarian: - I caught a program the other day about preparing the White House for Christmas and it showed the whole Obama family. I think it may have been on the Discovery Channel. I tried to Google it but was deluged with hits about Oprah's special. Maybe you can see that one on Hulu.

The Space Channel had all the Star Trek movies showing yesterday so last night we watched The Undiscovered Country (Uhura didn't know how to speak Klingon!?? LOL) and Star Trek, The Movie. Hee hee. It was great. :-)

thanks, mamzel

*goes off to Hulu to check it out*

I am trying to start a blog. Check it out, if you have time. It is Marvelous Maggie's Musings on blogger.com

:( was unable to find the Michelle Obama/White House Christmas show. It aired on Discovery Channel on Dec. 20 and 25, and was not available to watch on the website.

I just watched 2 episodes of the channel 4 adaptation of White Teeth on Hulu. You can find good things on hulu sometimes.

Finished Superfreakonomics. Not as good as the first book, although there wasn't as much of a novelty effect this time around.

Filled out a pretty geeky fictional character quiz on FaceBook. It took me almost 3 hours!

>203 theretiredlibrarian: - The Oprah special is available on Hulu -
http://www.hulu.com/watch/115740/christmas-at-the-white-house-an-oprah-primetime...
Enjoy!

Ooohhh... The scale of the universe is once again awe-inspiring. (The site's a bit ad-wrought, but it's worth waiting).

Very cool!

Hey, LittleGeek!


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