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What's the geekiest thing you've done.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I was a geek long before it was established to be cool. ( Circa marvel films). And I've done some geeky stuff I'm happy to admit to, D+D, LAN parties and such when I was younger.
Yesterday I searched out my Deed for the acre of moon that I bought, (you'll see, it's an investment) but what I'd forgot I had, was my certificate for sending my face into space. I sent a picture of myself to NASA they took that image into space for me on the very last shuttle launch.
So, I'm asking you guys what is the most geekiest thing you've done?
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I once wrote to an author of a childrens book i'd read when young.
And she replied!!
Can't remember who it was now though.
The book was about a St Bernard dog that rescued people from Avalanches.
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"I once wrote to an author of a childrens book i'd read when young.
And she replied!!
Can't remember who it was now though.
The book was about a St Bernard dog that rescued people from Avalanches.
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I wonder if anyone these days receive actual fan mail. I remember when you would join a 'fan club' and get some pretty cool stuff as a kid. |
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"I joined the young ornithologists club one year and a friend and I spent our summer holidays looking for birds to mark off in our big book of birds  "
I did a completely different type of bird watching when I was in my teens.  |
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My entire life has been one big geekfest; it would take too long to catalogue (alphabetically and by genre of course) all of my geek adventures and working out a clear means of assessing superiority of geekiness for each of them would melt the large hadron collider. |
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"I had maps of the stars and almost every night would check what I could see. Way before apps which told you just by holding your phone!
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A planisphere. I still have them in my shelf. One is only dated to 1999 I think.  |
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"I had maps of the stars and almost every night would check what I could see. Way before apps which told you just by holding your phone!
A planisphere. I still have them in my shelf. One is only dated to 1999 I think. "
Yes that's it. It was semi rural so I had a great view of the sky. I'd sit on my window ledge and chart the sky.
In fact I still do occasionally  |
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"I once wrote to an author of a childrens book i'd read when young.
And she replied!!
Can't remember who it was now though.
The book was about a St Bernard dog that rescued people from Avalanches.
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Do you mean Barry the St Bernard?  |
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Personally it was being accepted to join Mensa, but passing on my love of geekiness I took the family to Kennedy space centre. We did the whole tour and sat in the control room where they did the moon landing. Went inside an actual space shuttle and saw lots of old rockets etc. Was a fantastic day. And then I signed my sons names up to go in the shuttle into space. Oh and we all got to touch a piece of moon rock. Sorry we're all space geeks x |
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I once created a skin for Windows Media Player that made it into a cool pair of aviator sunglasses. I just edited an existing one but I managed to figure out all the bits I needed to replace without any programming experience. |
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"Signed up to pottermore
What was your Patronus?
I haven't done it yet I forgot my password
What was yours? "
I think I came out with a dog - it was a while ago |
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"I once wrote to an author of a childrens book i'd read when young.
And she replied!!
Can't remember who it was now though.
The book was about a St Bernard dog that rescued people from Avalanches.
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I met a children's author whose character later went on to have his own show on cbeebies  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Personally it was being accepted to join Mensa, but passing on my love of geekiness I took the family to Kennedy space centre. We did the whole tour and sat in the control room where they did the moon landing. Went inside an actual space shuttle and saw lots of old rockets etc. Was a fantastic day. And then I signed my sons names up to go in the shuttle into space. Oh and we all got to touch a piece of moon rock. Sorry we're all space geeks x "
Space geeks are awesome |
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"I used to write to a boy in my Geography class in Elvish.
My children (when younger) used to drift off to sleep to Jeff Wayne's War of the World's and they still hate me for it. "
I still can write in runes. |
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"My entire life has been one big geekfest; it would take too long to catalogue (alphabetically and by genre of course) all of my geek adventures and working out a clear means of assessing superiority of geekiness for each of them would melt the large hadron collider. "
Is it wrong this entire post gave me a hard on? So many people I know have said super hadron collider instead. |
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I was pen pals with Anne McCaffrey for a while. Still got the letters.
I also have letters between Oliver Rankine and Jeff Wayne exploring the viability of tripod machines in war of the worlds. |
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"Anybody going to horrorcon in birmingham this october?
Argh, that sounds so good! If only it was nearer  "
Anyone fancy the Zombie run they do in Manchester? |
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"Anybody going to horrorcon in birmingham this october?
Argh, that sounds so good! If only it was nearer
Anyone fancy the Zombie run they do in Manchester? "
Yes yes!!!
The Brighton one is awesome but I can never find anyone mad enough to go with haha!!
You're certifiable aren't you Bee?
Peach x |
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"I once wrote to an author of a childrens book i'd read when young.
And she replied!!
Can't remember who it was now though.
The book was about a St Bernard dog that rescued people from Avalanches.
Do you mean Barry the St Bernard? "
OMG!! I've just checked the cover (Barry the bravest St Bernard) and you could have found the book for me!!!!!
I've been looking for it for my kids but always thought it was called Avalanche or something!
I could kiss you!!!
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"Anybody going to horrorcon in birmingham this october?
Argh, that sounds so good! If only it was nearer
Anyone fancy the Zombie run they do in Manchester?
Yes yes!!!
The Brighton one is awesome but I can never find anyone mad enough to go with haha!!
You're certifiable aren't you Bee?
Peach x"
Yes I am |
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"I was pen pals with Anne McCaffrey for a while. Still got the letters.
I also have letters between Oliver Rankine and Jeff Wayne exploring the viability of tripod machines in war of the worlds. "
Ooooh, hello!
I probably need a scale of geekiness to rank things; is geochemistry more or less geeky than programming or analysing the weight of water needed on wheat ears to bend the stem?
Favourite geeky thing was probably walking out to the live lava flows in Hawaii. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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" walking out to the live lava flows in Hawaii.
That's not geeky, that's awesome! I only saw them from the helicopter"
It was fascinating, but also really quite scary. |
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"Whenever I Go to a concert, I always like to go and see what gear they're using. Drums, guitars, amps, PA, lights... everything.
Cal x "
Do you remember when Slash used to tape up or take the name off the amps They were using. He sold out to sponsors. |
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"I was pen pals with Anne McCaffrey for a while. Still got the letters.
I also have letters between Oliver Rankine and Jeff Wayne exploring the viability of tripod machines in war of the worlds. "
Ohhhh Anne Mcaffery.. That's really cool, I collected all her books.. |
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Do you remember when Slash used to tape up or take the name off the amps They were using. He sold out to sponsors. "
Yes, there was a lot of that going on at the time... Cymbals with their badges cleaned off and logos covered in gaffa tape. We always knew what they were though.
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Apart from all the geeky stuff I have to for my job now..
Not content with a magnifying glass on a sunny day, I built a ruby laser when I was 14 and used to use it to set paper alight..eventually.
I should have known then that it was the beginning of the end for my sanity.. |
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