What are your Guilty Pleasures of a geeky/nerdy variety? (page 10)

GentlyFeral

Oh, hey, I thought of some more.

AlyMC said:
On my list of "biggest turn ons" is someone using a word that I don't know. I love that. LOL
That hasn't happened to me in years – but a moderately attractive man (or woman) riffing on things I don't know is likewise incredibly hot, especially if I understand at least 25% of what s/he's saying.

AuroraB:
Right now I am addicted to "Heroes". #@%^ writer's strike!
Yeah, doing without The Big Bang Theory is my big tv-gripe.

SacrificialLoon:
I think Monty Python is hilarious,
Yeah, and hella topical in its day, too; check out "The 'lost' sketches" in the Wikipedia article on them. Even geekier than watching it for the umpteenth time is looking up the unfamiliar punchlines ("Who's got a boil on his Semprini, then?") in Wikipedia!

KenseiShimonzu
used to love reading encyclopedias in my spare time
Me too. Dictionaries, too, which is why it took me at least 15 minutes to look up one word, at least until I started studying Spanish and had to look up like a dozen words to get my homework done every night.

GoddessRachel
carrying my current read (usually fiction) with me EVERYWHERE
Yeah, me too. In fact it's gotten so bad I had to buy a beach tote to carry my lunch, breakfast and a book to work, or I'd leave the damn LIBRARY book on the BUS and have to pay to replace it. I've spent at least a hundred dollars on books I don't own, that way.

Now, using HTML to incorporate quotes into a bulleted list ... is that geeky?

gently feral

GoddessRachel

Now, using HTML to incorporate quotes into a bulleted list ... is that geeky?
gently feral

Yes.

watson

Finding great old tunes on youtube, like "Streets of Loredo" by Marty Robbins. "Moon River" by Andy Williams.

Mastodon

(psst did you see the Saw 4 thread? Have you seen the film?)

We sure saw the film. Liked it, just as the previous ones... haven't seen the thread though. I'll go take a peek.

Monday night we finally watched 'Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance'... what can I say... uff, delightfully disturbing.

:)

Crumpet

Geek Chic - Goddess Rachel - did you just coin a new phrase there?

Gently Feral - taking photos of Bentos lunches - that's far out lady!

I have to admit I have a thing for taking pictures of restrooms/toilets - unusual ones all round the world. I don't have an album or anything - but sometimes you just come across a really imaginatively decorated one or one with really really funny graffiti and I take photos. (God I feel embarassed now ) I think this comes from a child hood spent locking myself in bathrooms, it used to happen everywhere I went. We'd go out for dinner to a fellow JW family and I'd go missing for a while, and they'd go oh dear, looks like Nina's locked herself in the bathroom again. And ladders would have to be got out, men climb through windows and unlock the door for me. (If only life were like that now!)

Ladies (AND YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE) I am not sure you can count Dr Who as being geeky - I mean you have to actually be into the programme, not just salivating over David Tennant on your sofa's pretending to admire the plot/script/special effects/costumes next to hubby. That's called being pervy/lechy/lusty and we can have another thread for that.

Crump,
I want some Crumpet porn,, boy I feel so left out.
Crumpet - A Very British Sex Simbol

What is it with you yanks and your breakfast material fetishry?

FlyingHighNow

The only Doctor I have liked much is Tom Baker. I'd say that's pretty sci fi and geeky. Mom got us into him. She was totally mesmerized by him. That was back in the 1980's. I only kept up with the next doctor, the actor from All Creatures Great and Small, another favorite of mine from England and PBS.