Bragging Rights: Post your nerd cred

[Desert]

Originally Posted by toddfx [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That's what I like to hear! What kind of rendering do you do?

it's a compile whore now. in college i used to live in a house with a couple other high geeks and we threw it together because we had this idea for an ecommerce site that never took off. I dunno, I'm pretty geeky, but I like using my geekery to make money.

for example I surveyed springfield missouri and plotted markers via gps where every open wifi node in the city was (Wardriving), and dropped a card with my number, the risks of an unsecured network on it on their door, and the offer to fix it for a fee. i made money off of around 60% of the cards i dropped. the rest i only assume either figured out how on their own, or called geek squad.

[moklianne]

My Windows Media Center wasn't good enough. I had to create a mythtv backend server (one of two leftover Xeon Quadcore IBM xSystems) with multiple frontends so we can watch our downloaded tv shows throughout the house. Of course, we don't have cable tv, just cable internet. When I scrounge up some cash, I'll put another couple of hard drives into the backend and setup a software snapshot raid such as FlexRaid. It only has a single 2TB drive atm.

After that, I'll use the other server for a VMware Vsphere 4 server for training purposes. Cisco and VMware, its where the money is at in IT.

[Shuglin]

Ummmm for me it's dreaming of EQ up to Velious being a cut off since 2003. Also the fact i played WoW so long yet hated it almost the whole time.

[ereur]

I've been playing MMO's for sixteen years now.

[blanks77]

I've smoked dimethyltryptamine (DMT) over 40+ times.

[Neno]

Originally Posted by blanks77 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've smoked dimethyltryptamine (DMT) over 40+ times.

<3 Mimosa hostilis

One of the professors SWIM works with synthesizes his own LSD and SWIM routinely trades him several grams of DMT for 1/2 sheets of blotter. Not really sure why he just doesn't make it himself but SWIM isn't going to complain.

[Japan]

^^^^^^
Fucking nice.

I hosted a segment on Nick News about hoover dam when I was a kid. Also, I've ordered more than one case of Bawls online.

I was on a CAL-I cs1.6 team and got paid to play cs briefly pre-depression.

[Knightmare]

Denial Nerd points.. let's tally mine 'em up:

I owned Pong, when it was brand new, and was addicted to it. +1

I played Atari for hours a day and loved it, before it ever was called the 2600. "Combat" ftw. +1

I bought a brand new Commodore, not the crappy C64 mind ya. Oh no, I had to be a pro uber nerd at the age of 15 and get the Commodore 128. And then actually program my own crappy games on it.. which were about like low tech Space Invaders. +2

Later I played the D&D games on the C128 which required changing the discs whenever you zoned, 8 discs at that. Pool of Radiance addict. +1

I actually used the modem on that C128 to go "online" and send text to my friend down the street. I got to his house before the message even arrived. +1

I owned the NES, then Genesis, then SonyCD, and never moved off of consoles until I saw Iksar in Kunark. And thought Iksar were the coolest thing since Pong. +1

I drove 7 hours and slept in my Camaro to go to an Everquest-fest thing in Baltimore to meet members of my guild IRL. +1

I still think Iksar are the coolest thing since Pong. +1

I married a bigger nerd than I am. +2

That's over 10 nerd points. More depending on your grading system. To look at me you'd never know I was so uncool [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Zereh]

Originally Posted by Knightmare [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

crappy C64

Lode Runner ftw!

[Japan]

reads more like 10 old man points to me.