What is your Transcendent Geek Moment?

[andymol21]

Picking up an old Mac SE from a bin in the street surrounded by people then walking up the road and spending the next 2 weeks buying parts of eBay trying to get it to work. It never did

I even named it...

[disorderlyvision]

The most recent one was when I was painting my Battlelore infantry while watching Lord of the Rings.

holy crap i about spit my tea out when i read that.

[nick944]

Well, a teacher is says "you can use my CPU over there to finish your paper" me: "what? The CPU is a part inside the computer, that right there is a COMPUTER not a CPU" lol it really bothers me when someone calls a computer a CPU.

[spiritplx]

Hmm, I am sure there are lots, but a few come to mind....


My brother and I got Shining the Holy Ark one Christmas. We stayed up all night a few nights in a row banking on snow days for school to be called off. Luckily, it was each day the next day.

My brother and I would sleep in shifts so that we could constantly grind our character on Everquest.

(This one is mostly for my brother)
My brother is playing EQ on a finals day in college. We are both so entranced with the game that we forget that our final starts at 1... it is currently 1:30. I frantically start throwing on clothes and shoes getting ready to head out....my brother asks his EQ group if it is ok to leave without finding a replacement.

Yeah, MMOs are evil.

[Ack]

I went to a convention dressed as a shyguy. In fact I wrote the story in a different thread about what happened during the experience, though that was a while ago...I'll rewrite it if you guys ask.

I also realized I was pretty geeky when I told a friend how many Super Nintendo games I owned, and he replied with "That's more than my entire collection."

Good times.

Collecting all SNES fighters reguardless of quality? haha

I'll be honest, I thought that was pretty self-explanatory.

[fastbilly1]

Im just going to take that as a compliment disorderlyvision.

And for the record, even though I am going to strip and repaint one of them, all but the latest expansion are painted. Memoir 44 is getting close to being completely painted, and my count of unpainted minis is now in the 4-500 range, instead of 1000+ like it was not terribly long ago. If Dragoncon wasnt this weekend I would probably try to take an even larger dent out of that, instead I am only going to make it grow.

[General Chaos]

Oh this is a good thread indeed, and I've had so many such moments that it's hard to recall the earliest of them, but I can give a more recent example. A few years back while I was in grad school we had Foucault as required reading and most of the class had a running joke about how awful and boring it was. However, a fellow mega-geek classmate and I thought otherwise, and went so far as to create a guild in Ultima Online called "Foucault's Minions."

I think that's both geeky and sad on numerous levels.

[disorderlyvision]

Im just going to take that as a compliment disorderlyvision.

yep, no offense was intended. it was just they way i read it. i was seriously taking a drink of tea when i read your post and it made me laugh, so that almost didnt work out to good for my keyboard. I didn't laugh because you were painting an infantry, and i didn't laugh because you were watching lord of the rings. i guess i just found it humorus that you were painting an infantry While watching lord of the rings. it created a strange mental picture.

[d123456]

I like threads like this..

I had a moment last week that I was even surprised of myself. I was at a thrift store and I got a Atari 2600 Jr. boxed and before I even paid for it I busted out my iphone and updated my MySQL database to add the 2600 jr. as one of my owned consoles.

hahahaha, that's funny.

[aaron]

my friend audrey is in the process of drawing me a sonic spinball tattoo. it'll cover my entire upper left arm.

i think that's pretty geeky.