So I just did something so incredibly nerdy(in my view) that I felt the need to share. I also wonder about what sort of people you forum-folk are, so I thought I would take the opportunity to ask you all about the nerdiest thing you've ever done. So here's mine, which is actually a series of events that lead up to the "Oh God, I am a nerd" thought: So there I was, working on some hardware interface code late Friday night on the eve of the Memorial Day weekend. I'll spare the gory technical details, but I had just finished loading a modified Indian Head test pattern into a buffer in a very expensive piece of imaging hardware, pretty much for the hell of it (I had already tested that buffer with a perfectly good, albeit less retro pattern). My task complete, I decided to break for lunch. I tossed a can of soup behind the exhaust fan of one of the many computers on my desk and ran a stress test program to get the CPU nice and hot. I scooted my Yoga ball from my dev box to my web box, and proceeded to read up on First-order logic while the soup warmed, all the while squeezing my hand grip exerciser to stave off CTS. Let's hear you nerd story! I'm sure there are a few out there who could out-nerd me.

Quote: Original post by Koobs
I tossed a can of soup behind the exhaust fan of one of the many computers on my desk and ran a stress test program to get the CPU nice and hot.

Nice. I'm reminded of the iGrill, which I've been trying to justify purchasing for quite a while. I mean, web-based cooking!

Probably the fact that I tend to plan my IRL paths optimally in terms of travel distance required. Even for the simple things, like whether it would be more efficient to grab the spoon first or reach for the Nesquik first.

I can't stop thinking about this toaster.

Mostly, I keep thinking of ways to make it better. It costs $200 and they don't even have a serial interface?

Quote: Original post by Ravuya
I can't stop thinking about this toaster.

Mostly, I keep thinking of ways to make it better. It costs $200 and they don't even have a serial interface?

Well now I'm thinking about that toaster! Being already motorized, it would be a good component in my still hypothetical breakfast-machine. Hmm...

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whether it would be more efficient to grab the spoon first or reach for the Nesquik first.

Well?

It's a while I don't feel myself quite nerdy, probably because the non-work I won't have soon does mandate non-exposure to computers.
I suppose the nerdiest thing I ever did is pretending everyone start counting at 0.

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I suppose the nerdiest thing I ever did is pretending everyone start counting at 0.

Oh, but some do. Look at all the people who are under the misapprehension that 2000 was the start of the 21st century, for example.

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Quote: Original post by nullsquared
whether it would be more efficient to grab the spoon first or reach for the Nesquik first.

Well?

It depends on whether I find myself closer to the kitchen drawer or the cabinet with the Nesquik, and where my destination cup is located.

Last week I was at a party where the theme was "space" (open to interpretation). I couldn't think of anything clever to wear, so I arrived dressed in a black jacket and a red t-shirt. People immediately started questioning me as to what I was supposed to be, so I had to improvise. Eventually I came up with the idea of saying that I was the emission spectrum of neon (black-red-black, because I wore my jacket over the tee). Granted, it's not entirely accurate, but all the others were dressed like Darth Vader, so I still win.