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erp Geek Larva  
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posted March 19, 2002 11:24
   
designed a secret love-nest website? written a perl script? set-up a streaming video server? sound off with your geekiest ! IP: Logged |
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dajt Geek Larva
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posted March 19, 2002 14:20
I set up a bird-feeder webcam for her 'cuz she said she always wanted one. Of course now she stays at home and can see the bird feeder out the window (when she's not chasing the Short People), while I have to checki on it via the web. Sigh. I wish Tech Writing paid better than programming, so I could stay at home while she worked. . . IP: Logged |
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macadddikt18 BlabberMouth, the Next Generation.     
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posted March 19, 2002 21:11
mine is lame, I fixed her computer so she could play those stupid mindless solitaire games from microsoft. Nayt ------------------ IP: Logged |
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plastic Super Geek  
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posted March 20, 2002 01:17
I learned how to Roleplay, and I mean out side of the bedroom of course. :P Get your minds out of the gutters ------------------ quote: IP: Logged |
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LifetimeTrekker Assimilated
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posted March 20, 2002 05:17
I replaced her old 286 with my old Celeron 500 and have given her free tech support visits at any time. I'm still a sucker for those beautiful blue eyes. IP: Logged |
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GameMaster Super Geek
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posted March 20, 2002 05:19
Composed a classical piece and my synth perform it for her. I know, that isn't as computer geek as it is music-geek, but I can't help it if I am multi-geek-inclined. Geek of trades, Jock and Master of none. :P IP: Logged |
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spungo Assimilated
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posted March 20, 2002 05:25
I became a vegetarian for two years just to pull a particular girl. It worked. I actually didn't mind it too much. But as soon as the whole thing ended I went a bit kebab crazy for week or so. Sorry, I know that's not geeky - but what the hell! ------------------ IP: Logged |
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mephisto Highlie 
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posted March 20, 2002 08:39
I wrote this program that actually modelled the stresses and strains in a bridge and the changes therein with motion for my project. It was that great. crappy graphics(8-bit) and a little primitive in some ways. but then a girl asked me if she could use it for her project and i rewrote it completely. Damn, the second time it had 16 bit graphics and everything. It looked so much nicer. Was i fishing for a date? Yes. and I got it. mucho disappointing to say the least,turned me off blondes and non-geekettes forever. *sigh. but it still counted as a pretty geeky thing to do. The geekiest thing I've done for anyone is make a extremely beautiful painstakingly rendered UT model for my wife. it was made in her exact image. there were a bunch of them. oh and there is the poem i wrote dedicated to her that is actually being published. IP: Logged |
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spungo Assimilated
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posted March 20, 2002 08:44
Hey, welcome back mephisto! Glad you ain't gone for good. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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weirdo513 Super Geek
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posted March 20, 2002 12:08
Set up Simms on my computer an relinquished control of my computer to her so she could game all weekend...  ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Parity Super Geek
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posted March 20, 2002 12:26
Java animation applet of fireworks that exploded and the settling sparkles made the shape of a heart... how's that? Parity Even IP: Logged |
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mephisto Highlie
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posted March 20, 2002 15:14
quote: Now that is something. I don't do well with java graphics though. I much rather prefer the opengl and the D3D libraries. More Opengl than D3D. That way your animation or movie or whatever can be ported a little more easily. IP: Logged |
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The Pope of Perl Geek Apprentice
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posted March 20, 2002 15:33
I manipulated several national governments to declare war on each other using biological weapons. Then I convinced a farmer that a certain patch of land was perfect cow country, despite the fact that, a week later, it was virus-bombed from a squadron of planes. Next, I paid off several food inspectors to pass these cows as edible. When the beef finally shipped to a local store, I hacked her computer and sent a subliminal message to the screen once every 60 frames, suggesting that she have some hamburgers. From there, she asked her mom to buy some beef from said local store. The next day, her family had the burgers, and the rest is history. Wait, did you say "for a guy or girl"? Oops. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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nitrogaine Newbie Larva 
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posted March 21, 2002 10:16
Probably the geekiest love thing I ever did was write a SNOBOL program to generate erotic love poetry. Rather personal erotic love poetry. Unfortunately this was back in the days of batch processing and after I stuck the cards in the reader I ran to take a leak. The printouts arrived in the hopper before I got back (why were those old machines so fast when you didn't care?). A friend picked `em up as a favor and decided to see what I was up to. By the time I got back he was holding a public reading to all assembled. Luckily this was around 3 AM so there only some 25 people or so there. I entered the room to applause and laughter. Sigh. Well, at least my lover appreciated the poems enough to marry me... ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Parity Super Geek
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posted March 21, 2002 10:37
quote: At the time, this was not an option... imagine running an early beta of mesa on a 386/20... I -think- at this time I had svga Xwindows (at the time, 3d acceleration was not yet a concept, though, and bus choices were ISA and VESA. I had ISA.) but it might still have been Hercules MGA... besides, applets have the vast advantage Parity Odd IP: Logged |
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Parity Super Geek
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posted March 21, 2002 10:40
quote:  We have somebody here who actually codes in SNOBOL? I was starting to think the language was a myth!  Parity None IP: Logged |
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RyMan Newbie Larva
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posted March 21, 2002 14:08
Well, the first really geeky thing I did for a girl was write a program that stripped all the junk html tags from files so that only the plain text and formatting was left (no pics or anything), because she needed the files like this to do a research project for her professor. BUT, the geekiest thing I ever did for a girl was buy her an iBook :-) IP: Logged |
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dragonman97 Super Geek
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posted March 21, 2002 14:19
I totally reloaded a girl's laptop for her after Windows got fouled up, and my tech support call to her caused it to work a bit less. I spent most of my weekend on it, and I've made an image of the cleaned up computer to my hard drive. I intend to eventually make a recovery disc out of this for her, using LNX-BBC. Unfortunately, I got nothing out of this, except for a small thank you (verbal, not written). Though she seemed to almost be throwing herself over me while I tried to fix it, that was gone once the machine worked. It reminds me of Swordfish, when Stanley is being greatly distracted whilst hacking. I mean any other time, I'd be happy beyond my wildest dreams, but when I'm trying to do serious work, I need to concentrate - not have her reach all the way over me to get into her desk drawer (in a really tight shirt, damn, and partly get dressed, etc, while I'm trying desperately to make her machine work. To make things worse, some of her roommates smoke, which did not make me happy, and the place smelled of perfume, so when I left, it smelled like I'd been to a house of ill repute. Man, she and some of her roommates are so hot. Whoops, did I say that out loud IP: Logged |
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bucketofsquids Geek
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posted March 21, 2002 17:33
i wrote my last girlfriend a song.....wasn't one of my best, but she loved it. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Super Flippy Super Geek
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posted March 21, 2002 18:18
I built a little app in Director with a flirtatious pic of myself and I think some text animation. It had to be little since I fit it on a floppy (this was back when blank CDs were expensive and CD-R drives still uncommon). I labeled the disk "Valentine v.1.0" and gave it to my boyfriend on V-Day. Said boyfriend is now my husband and yes, he is a geek too.
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breakforpenguins Newbie Larva
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posted March 23, 2002 00:00
I bought her some X-Files game that she had mentioned once (she was obcessed with the X-Files). I didn't know it would be a big deal but apparently it was. So when she got back from Greece several months later we sort of went out and she dumped me like a sack of medical waste in about a week and picked up somebody brand new. 
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EngrBohn Highlie
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posted March 23, 2002 03:59
Not sure what the geekiest thing was, but I can point to the first and the most recent and the one that could be classified as general geekiness (rather than, say, computer geekiness). The first. Eight grade, I used a computer to forge the report card for a girl I had a crush on. It was 1983, the first year the school was using computerized report cards. None of the fancy stuff you see today. The "form" itself was printed on a dot-matrix printer at the same time as the grades. All characters were the basic 5x7-dot fixed format (the printer probably could accomodate 5x11-dot to permit nice-looking lower-case letters with tails, but the report card was in all caps). Two report cards per 8.5x11" sheet (top half, bottom half), then manually sickle-cut and sorted. I regretted it almost immediately, but you do foolish things when trying to win a girl's heart. I also got my own private chuckle out of it -- I got a reputation of being a "computer genius" from that (this was before l33t), and while I wouldn't have disagreed with the assessment, the cause for the assessment was what gave me the laugh. I used a text editor (although at the time, we called it a word processor) to do the forgery. NOT a lot of thinking involved, just a lot of counting dashes. The general-geekiness incident was proposing marriage over a pile of unfolded laundry (described here (fifth post) ). The most recent was just the other night. I morphed a photo from our wedding (Jan 94) to a photo from a formal dinner a couple weeks ago. 425KB animated gif. Shrank it down, and here's the smaller (152KB) version: ------------------ IP: Logged |
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GameMaster Super Geek
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posted March 26, 2002 05:45
I just remembered something else that I did that was really geeky... A cyber date, no not cyber sex. We had a picnic under the stars, and went for a walk in the woods without leaving our computers. The benifit of course being the ability to blame running out of things to say on LAG (j/k). IP: Logged |
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snupy Super Geek
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posted March 26, 2002 06:53
quote: I think we have a winner. IP: Logged |
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mephisto Highlie
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posted March 26, 2002 08:02
quote: ahh, the good old days hmmm. things were easier back then weren't they. *sigh. I want them back. really i do. i would give up my dualie with geforce 2 to get back to a time when i booted of floppies. *sigh. there was a time when the 1.44 mb floppy was enough. IP: Logged |
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supaboy SuperBlabberMouth!
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posted March 26, 2002 20:12
I once helped a friend use an Internet white-pages directory to get the address of a girl he'd just met. He sent flowers to her, which *really* surprised her, seeing as how she hadn't given him her address yet. She was splitting time between two cities, so we got the remote address. They ended up in a "starter marriage" together. I once helped a girl install a printer driver. Her home Internet access was provided by her work, and their firewall prevented FTP access. I went over to her house and telnetted back into my cable-modem-connected Linux box. Then I used a command-line FTP client to grab the file from the remote server. I made the driver file available through my computer's HTTP server, and transferred it to her computer with her web browser. IP: Logged |
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CrawGator Alpha Geek Posts: 335 |
posted March 27, 2002 07:09
I would have to say the geekiest thing I ever did for my wife was on Valentine's Day. I made a web page just for her with roses and hearts with the quote from Proverbs about a virtuous woman. ------------------ A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams Mostly Harmless IP: Logged |
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bucketofsquids Geek
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posted March 27, 2002 14:13
oh wait, i've done something geekier.....one time i set up a printer and installed the software for an old girlfriend. not terribly difficult, but she definitely wasn't a geek. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Charisma Super Geek
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posted March 27, 2002 16:14
Yeah, with me it's all like: Them: Will you fix my computer? (time passes) Me: Good as new! Besides that, every geek girl I know is, well, um... not physicly inclined. Where are the good looking geek girls? Anyone know? (please don't tell me they're working for Microsoft...) ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Swiss Mercenary BlabberMouth, the Next Generation.
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posted March 28, 2002 09:22
quote:Nope, they are married or engaged. Single, good looking, geek girls get snapped up the moment they are free. Trouble is that all those jocks out there know a good thing when they see one and we geeks are just to darn shy to ask them out. C'est la vie IP: Logged |
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annie Alpha Geek Posts: 264 |
posted March 28, 2002 12:25
quote: I'm assuming that what you mean by "physically inclined" is actually "physically attractive". IP: Logged |
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TheAnnoyedCockroach Assimilated
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posted March 28, 2002 22:28
I have done.... Huh, isn't that funny? I've not done a blinkin' thing! Can't ever remember finding a girl that was worth it. Well, I did teach the one chemistry... But that was just because she's my friend. Huh... Guess I've done nothing. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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macadddikt18 BlabberMouth, the Next Generation.
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posted March 29, 2002 08:40
roach, you are playing it safe like me. Better to not get involved with that stuff. who knows what it will do to you. Well look around, thats what it does, i think. Nayt ------------------ IP: Logged |
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pect Newbie
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posted March 29, 2002 15:46
Geekiest thing... *thinking* It was probably back in July - Sep last yr when I was writing a program (a game based on the TV show Wheel of Fortune) for an assignment. I gave this guy (a friend btw) a fair bit of my "foundation" code and ideas, worked on his interface design with him, traded ideas, and we also ended up debugging each other's code. During that time he kept telling me how my ideas were "weird", but they did work. Anyway the whole process was pretty fun and I enjoyed it. IP: Logged |
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snupy Super Geek
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posted March 29, 2002 17:43
quote: Mybe you should look below the surface... IP: Logged |
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Geordie Super Geek
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posted March 30, 2002 06:38
Probably the geekiest thing I have ever done for a woman was playing an online roleplaying game just so we could spend more time together. Unfortuantely when she reached 40th level or so and I was still only at 10th I had to give up and just spend time with her when I could pry her away from the keyboard. What makes this geeky is we were living together at the time. I did my share of geeky computer created valentine cards in the 80's too. IP: Logged |
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mephisto Highlie
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posted March 30, 2002 07:27
quote: and you're? Damn geeks, got the body of a noodle and want the good looking girls. You guys gotta grow up, suck it in(literally) and accept that you won't get the pretty chicks cause you're not good looking or got get your ass in the gym, and get in shape at which point you will find good looking girls. IP: Logged |
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macadddikt18 BlabberMouth, the Next Generation.
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posted March 30, 2002 10:57
I guess you can go to one of 3 places. 1.) an apple store, sometimes you find them there. 2.) if you like any type of geek, and engineering school at your local college. try the computer engineering dept or floor. 3.) teh graphic deign dept at your local college. i often run into some web geeks there you are big Mac users. Remember the mac is big in the Publishing industry. Nayt ------------------ IP: Logged |
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EngrBohn Highlie
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posted March 30, 2002 13:52
- Charisma - Them: Will you fix my computer? (time passes) Me: Good as new! Obviously, they didn't realize they'd stumbled across the lure for Nerds of Prey. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Geordie Super Geek
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posted March 31, 2002 16:59
quote: I workout and I don't think I am too ugly, but that does not change the fact that I do not encounter very many single attractive geek girls. There are many cultural reasons why there are not very many geek girls to start with relative to geek guys. I have to agree with swiss on this, the geek gals that are also attractive get snapped up pretty quickly. (Disclaimer there are reasons that I am a lonely geek; however it is not because I require that any woman I would be interested in be more physically attractive than I am) ObOnTopic: Using cron to send out pre-written love notes to an SO, because we usually e-mailed every day and I had to visit my family for a few days where I did not have any e-mail access. IP: Logged |
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