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[aliseadae]

Tell me a geeky memory.

I write in a paper journal every night and for a while I used the Elvish words for the days of the week. (I don't know if they were Sindarin or Quenya)

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[mrissa.livejournal.com]

One of my friends once consulted me to see if what her 7-year-old was doing with numbers was normal. (He was summing the digits until he got a single digit, or else finding the prime factors.) I told her it was, that lots of geeks I knew did that sort of thing. "Oh thank God," she said. "I figured he was either like you or autistic."

...um.

Well...

[keety531.livejournal.com]

This is an example of geekery gone far, far beyond normal geekery, to the point where my game group just kind of... stared.

A summer or two ago, I was playing in a D&D game, as a wizard.
Wizards have spellbooks.
So I decided to make a spellbook. It had all of the actual game-related information necessary to the characer, as well as descriptions on how the spell worked on every page, images of how to move one's hands while casting, ritual intonations in draconic, espruar, generic elvish, and runic (all of which I still have computer fonts for), etc.
And then I bound it with cardboard, glue, and paper, to make a proper book of it.
Everyone was astounded, but it was a slow summer, and something that I liked doing.

[shadow-chimera.livejournal.com]

So many examples to choose from...
Alright, here: I have a book in my room (it's a journally thing). I've used this book in two games. I used it to have long bluebooking sessions...with myself (I was playing a person with Disassociative Personality Disorder and she used writing to communicate with the personalities. I also used it as a journal for a character. It has pictures.
By this year I will have had 3 journals for characters. Two on lj and one in a book.

[lex-of-green.livejournal.com]

Eventually I'll get around to posting my own damn geeky memory, but I don't have time now because I have to watch Battlestar Galactica with Sam.
So for now... Ylantok's journal is my fault. I gave it to her on the stipulation that she'd use it to bluebook with herself. ;-)

[seabream.livejournal.com]

More a tendency than a particular memory, but: if there's a song that uses a riff that's in another song (e.g.: Everybody got their something by Nikka Costa and Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go) by Garbage), and I have them both, and they're at different tempos, I'll try and get them to match up to listen to them together using wildly inadequate tools that aren't really meant for that purpose. Then I'll play perceptual games with them fiddling around with the soundscape l-r balance or attempting to get them to be at the same tempo and volume but just out of synch enough that it sounds like it's coming from one side or another, etc... No real point to it other than fun.

[vcmw]

Also Tolkien-ish.

In 3rd grade I insulted a bully by telling him he was "8th cousin to a balrog". He was not impressed.

[eolill.livejournal.com]

If I were a bully, I totally would have been. =P

[monty-dear-91.livejournal.com]

I totally do that thing in the first comment, except I'm obsessed with multiples of three. 6561 is my perfect number because it's three squared, and then you square that, and then you square that number and you get 6561. I was going to square 6561 but I could never remember all of the digits.

As far as geeky memories go, most of them are related to Doctor Who, except for the ones that are related to my study habits. I'm sure you can imagine them. Crying over the fate of characters, speculating as to the origins of villains, forgetting to eat because Physics was so awesome, etc.

[bonniecharlie.livejournal.com]

My first geeky memory is staying up till 2 in the morning, discussing whether or not a sacrifice is a good thing, stemming from a magic card (goblin sapper- sacrifice to destroy a wall). We had a moral debate, based around magic the gathering. The next morning, I made a 3.0 paladin for D&D

[eolill.livejournal.com]

Well, my memory sucks, so this will be recent memory only:

The thing I've gushed most about this semester ... was a shirt where pi was saying to i, "Get real", and i said back: "Be rational." Picture in livejournal and everything. =P