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[seanan_mcguire]

I am a total geek. I have never tried to conceal my geekiness, choosing instead to embrace it for the wonderful thing that it is. Without my geeky pastimes, I wouldn't have the same friends, the same toys...the same life. I don't define myself by my geeky passions, but I can't pretend that they haven't defined me throughout my existence. Much

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[tylik]

I was

a) playing Dungeons and Dragons b) on a Friday night in c) a Microsoft conference room (where our group usually met) with d) a group largerly composed of microsoft game developers (though I did high capacity network servers myself thank you) and as we were getting our stuff together someone started reading through a nerdity exam.

And in this august company... I still got the highest score.

[ETA: Seriously, I almost didn't even want to admit that.]

[jenk]

.....this was probably around the timeframe I was playing Magic in a Microsoft conference room with Windows developers, right?

[tylik]

I would tend to guess roughly, yes. Your husband was part of that game IIRC... And really, that particular nerdity exam was biased towards old school computer stuff, which meant as the daughter of a CS prof, I had a leg up.

(This was before I acquired the habit of martial arts training as the perfect thing to do on a Friday night. Of course, these days, I mostly sit on a pillow and stair at the wall, and then get to bed by nine, as most of my training is in the morning.)

[hrhleia]

My geekiest moment was probably posing next to a Dalek at NYComicCon with my sonic screwdriver, TARDIS t-shirt, trench coat and Converse hi-tops. Alternatively, every time I've dressed up as Agatha Heterodyne for Connecticon. :D

[geekhyena]

I met my boyfriend because I'd printed off that day's page of Girl Genius (the one where Agatha finds out that Gil managed to save Punch and Judy) and brought it to work because I was overcome by the feels. He came up behind me, saw what I was reading, and recited the last panel line-for-line. We then skivved off work to spend 3 hours geeking out together, and then he introduced me to his wife (also a huge geek), and we've been together as a polycule for 3 years now.

[reedrover]

My geekiest moment lately was: while attending an "alternative lifestyles" convention in a large metropolitan city, during the Saturday night open bar mixer, in the middle of the meat market, I ended up playing boardgames on networked iPads in the middle of the bar with a bunch of like-minded people.

My nerdiest moment still rests back in high school, when Dad nearly ran off the road in excitement when we saw the license plate KMNO4 on a purple porsche. We all got it at the same time and chorused "potassium permanganate!"

Understand, though, that I went to a science and technology magnet school, so the bar for "geek" and "nerd" was pretty high.

[soon_lee]

Emailed Charles Stross on how much I loved "The Atrocity Archives", and included some typos I found: got asked if I wanted to be a test reader for him.