I was geekier in high school than all of you combined. First, I went to a boarding school called the texas academy of math and science. There I was president of the geek club. Here are some of the activities we did for fun:

- memorized hundreds of digits of pi and other trancendental numbers
- created and administrated some of the first MUDs (online text based dungeons and dragons)
- boosted CB radio wattage to get further range. this is before we could afford ham radio.
- decoded the last info society "peace and love" modem track
- programmed viruses for fun
- held a university sponsored 'integral bee' (do integrals in your head)
- liquid nitrogen explosives
- contributed articles to PHRACK (not sure I should admit to this one)

can anyone beat those... ?

 

rasputin, I dont think I can touch those. sorry. and I'm quite impressed by chris' efforts in the past.

but what if I got first post on /. once? doesn't that count? <g>

 

I met my ex-girlfriend (who is now my wife) on the internet before AOL even exists.
So, how did I do?

 

Rasputin: Are you going to defcon?

-boka

 

Does programming your own 49 code lines moon lander game on a HP 25C calculator count as geeky? Preferring reverse polish notation even when doing sums for your tax returns should also count for something (?)



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[QUOTE]Originally posted by jdchaiken
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Here it is:

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mindcore
[B][QUOTE]Originally posted by jdchaiken
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Here it is:

 

- i have a BASIC casette tape for an ATARI 400. I used to play games on that atari using a makeshift cartridge and cloned EEPROMS.
- i do bin-hex-dec conversions in my head.
- i will hackforfood.com and keep shelling out to keep the domain. stood in DC wearing a "I WILL HACK FOR FOOD" sign during the gov't shutdown a couple years back.
- used to put motorola flip phones in test mode as a party trick.
- have programmed on a CP/M machine. once. promptly left the job.
- have a program on my TI-82 to graph warp speed as warp factor vs. c.
- can explain faster than light travel using einstein's relativity without ending up with imaginary numbers. just don't ask what coordinate system i use
- do silly things like perl -e '$_="07/4"cp%2,";s/./""c$&""/gees;print'



[Edited by josh3io on 04-05-2001 at 03:43 PM]

 

Two words: 31337 h4x0r

All your base are belong to us!

Just kidding guys..

-boka

 

You guys are right, you are geeks. JK