What's The Nerdiest Thing You've Ever Done?

Yesterday, I asked our Twitter followers and Facebook Fans to answer this question: What's  the nerdiest thing you've ever done?

Here are my Top 10 favorite responses:
10. Amy Whinston said: I had a job solving Rubicks Cubes in a gift shop to attract customers.

9.Nancie Nguyen said: During bedroom role play, a boyfriend asked me to be a samurai ninja. I agreed hahaha.

8. Mark L. Bajorek said: Probably building a small TV jammer in high school just to annoy my sister at home. Those were pre-cable days though...

7. scared_of_bees said: Once, after an art club social, I spotted
and subsequently collected a large leopard slug specimen to take home
to photograph.

6. Eric Johnson said: I once had a (surprisingly heated) argument about the merits of Ewoks vs. Tribbles. I sided with the Ewoks, for the record.

5. hellobrowneyes said: I had a nerd birthday party. Invites on
floppy disks, guess the scientist, and giant microbes as party favors.

4. Denise Yazak said: I reserved Bioshock 2 at Toys R' Us and Gamestop just to get the swag at each store. I went to Gamestop's midnight release to get the multiplayer downloadable content with my special edition, and took the day off of work to get the figurines with my regular edition at Toy's R' Us at 10am the next day. Yep.

3. xadrian said: Built a Lego ship based on an obscure starship from a Star Wars comic – photos of it here

2. Our own John Farrier said: When I was in high school, a hot girl once came up to me and seductively (and teasingly) asked "Is that a calculator in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" I immediately pulled a calculator out of my pocket.

And my number-1 favorite: Kevin Sexton said: My wife and I calculated the date that our niece turned 3.14, and we had a fancy apple pie delivered for her pi birthday. Next day on Twitter, her mom said about us, "They're nerds, but they're pie-sending nerds"

When I go swimming, I count the lengths in elements of the periodic table, instead of in numbers: "...molybdenum, molybdenum, molybdenum, tumble-turn, technetium, technetium, technetium..." etc.
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Oh man, that pi pie was so cute. My gf and I stressed over what to bring for a D&D party on the 13th. We wanted to make a pie and hoped the game would go past midnight so we could have pi pie, but then we couldn't figure out what kind of pie would be right.

So we brought D&D Jones soda instead.
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I've done a lot of nerdy things, but one of the most nerdy was writing an accurate orbital mechanics system for a fictional solar system for an online text-based roleplaying game.

Also I built a speech synthesizer as a science project in middle school. It was supposed to interface with a Commodore 64 but I hadn't had time to finish that part. The science teacher, also a tremendous nerd, *gave me his old oscilloscope!* and I thought it was the best thing ever. I hooked it up to my stereo.
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Game modding - years and years ago, I learnt how to make mods for Civilisation II, creating my old units based on the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, and the situation following the Soviet retreat. I designed all the units, including bazooka troops on the back of Toyota Hiluxs and musket-holding infantry men. It was awesome!

And I've done a little modding for Europa Universalis II as well, which was mind-meltingly dull recoding of certain events...yawn!
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I commissioned a metal smith who specializes in titanium to cut me two titanium 20 sided dice. To my knowledge they're the only two in existence. Due to the hardness of the metal, traditional inscription methods wouldn't do for the numbers, so I had them laser inscribed.

You heard me, laser inscribed, titanium d20s.

I spent more on this process than I am comfortable sharing here...
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I played in the 2008 Segway Polo world cup.

My potato gun features a silencer, utilizes aluminum burst discs for pressure regulation, and is ignited by pulling the trigger of a gutted drill gun that's had its internals replaced with those of a stun gun.

I own 2 custom made science fiction based hats.

I wired my car so that it appears as if the stereo has already been stolen (hidden amp in trunk w/ headphone jack cable running to the console area.)
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Coupla things here. I call BS on the "Samurai Ninja" one. I mean really???

Like the mods one also :)

I did expansions to BG Dark Alliance 2 so my wife and I could continue the fun :) I got her into hack n slashes and have fun playing with her. Also currently working on my second RPG Maker game for her. The first one, "Treasure Kitty" was unreleasable to the public due to excessive gross content and vulgar language. The kind folks at RPGTown ran me out on the rails lol.

Mainly these days I spend my time writing fake reviews at Trip Advisor and have created the e-picnic and Virtual Camping.
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I was simultaneously Chess Club and Latin Club president in one year of high school, the same year I memorized pi to 314 digits, and played bassoon in orchestra and marched the flugelhorn.
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Physics karaoke.

I was at the biggest physics meeting in the country and I noticed in the program that there was a night event called "Physics Sing-along". I was at the grad student reception before it and met someone else interested in singing physics songs. He actually had his guitar and had written a couple songs that week. We decided to perform them together. So we went to a drug store, bought poster board, and made cue cards so everyone could join in. Then we went to the sing along and sang our hearts out. One song was about finding true love at a physics conference and the other was about random physics terminology from the abstract booklet.

Here's a pic.
http://imgur.com/p0RSG
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I told the tall, blond and very tanned surfer boy at Athlete's Wearhouse that after I finished buying rugby cleats I was going to a Magic tourny. He asked me if I could pull rabbits out of hats and I replied "Oh no, you're confused I meant the card game."
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This is probably more geeky than nerdy. One Christmas, I disassembled my 16-year-old girlfriend's expensive new curling iron to see how its electrical swivel connection (slip joint) worked. Her parents weren't pleased, but we've been happily married 25 years!
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This was before the days of walkman and mp3-
When I was 7, my dad gave me a diy-radioset without batteries - just a coil, some transistors, clobs, switches, an earpiece and about 15ft of antenna-wire.
Soon enough, I wanted to be able to listen to the radio to school to be able to listen during classes. So it to me 2 weeks for me to build that little radio in by schoolbag in such a way that I still could handle the tuner and use the earpiece. It still had the long antenna-wire lying around my desk and chair when I installed myself and then I had to turn my head to the left and my left leg stretched to get some soundquality in my earpiece.
I was able to use it for 2 days and then mysteriously I got cought because the teacher saw me sitting so warped and he figured out the faint crackling noises and the wires came from me.
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Lol nice list. I think we can all relate to being a nerd at some point in our lives. Seriously, who can't?

Lisa J ASIB.org
What's the point of life said the guy up there? There is no point he said!
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I ignored the other nerd in H.S, when I found out he had a crush on me, though he was always nice /kind to me. I had no social skills. 20 years later-a chance encounter with his sister lead to emails and a friendship meal--that ended in a park making out like teenagers at 2am! He proposed in his underpants--NOT romantic!
He then had to face my father for permission--with the whole family at the house--my father ran him thru the ringer for an hour--with jokes--before we all celebrated.
Been married 10 years now.

I also made and sold Tribbles in high school for pocket money!
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This was a good while ago, but friends still won't let me live it down.

I went on a date with a girl and it was going nice and smoothly. Near the end of the night I thought it was time to lay it on thick and broke out my favorite and greatest pick-up line. I leaned in nice and close and said,

"So, we should reduce our kerning, and possibly turn it into leading."
When she didn't get it, I was had the next one ready, "We should head out and possibly make a ligiture."

Safe to say, the rest of the night was awkward
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I drank lots of alcohol at a party, and when I was only just beginning to get drunk I escaped back to my dorm room and sat reading my chemistry text book for hours straight, absolutely fascinated. Thankfully, I remembered everything the day afterward. :P
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