Nerd hobbies & pasttimes..

arybvtcw0eolkf

What nerd hobbies or pasttimes have you had, or are currently hooked on.

For me;

I was crazy into model building (1/35 scale), won some competitions and had some photos published in Military Modelling (magazine). Don't do it any more.

Another was HAM radio, being competitive by nature I won some comps there too, silly stuff like working over 100 countries on Morse Code on one band in one month.

I'm sure other nerdy stuff from my past will come back to me later.

Anyone else here a reformed nerd or in a treatment programme hoping for a cure?. :pac:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

When you say "used to have" is "past times" a deliberate mistake?!

FunkZ

Getting the first reply to threads, I never get it though!

arybvtcw0eolkf

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

When you say "used to have" is "past times" a deliberate mistake?!

Nope, I'm a thick cunt this morning.

Fratton Fred

I used to be into CB radio.

How cool was that, all you needed was a box the size of a dvd player, a mic and a three foot long antenna and you could talk to random strangers anywhere within three miles.

Dublin_Gunner

Boards.

I used to build model airplanes and paint them also, as well as paint the likes of Warhammer figures and that sort of thing.

NothingMan

I guess refusing to read anything that doesn't invole some kind of

"He was the bastard son of a prince together with his friend a magician of untapped power they are on a quest to save the realm from the evil sorcerer and the might army of were-beasts."

type synopsis could be considered quite nerdy.

dr.bollocko

I do nerd stuff like counting the number of letters in a word as people are speaking. It's easier than listening to them. But you're not really a nerd unless you know who Alan Moore is.

kowloon

Used to like tinkering with PCs, lost interest years ago, but it qualifies as nerdy. Used to make Airfix models aswell, but when I was much younger, they all turned into lumps of glue covered plastic that only partially resembled the picture on the box. I tried making one again a few years ago and did quite a good job of it compared to my childhood efforts, but that was a one off.

Pighead

dr.bollocko wrote: »

But you're not really a nerd unless you know who Alan Moore is.

Don't know who he is and seeing as his name is an anagram of "anal romeo", don't particularly want to know either.

Pighead's nerd hobby is anagrams.

petes

Never really had one. Used to buy video game magazines every week and read cover to cover.

Escalated this to PC magazines. Lived in the sticks. This changed when I started using the internet as can get any information from there.

Still buy an odd one though.

Kintarō Hattori

Pighead wrote: »

Don't know who he is and seeing as his name is an anagram of "anal romeo", don't particularly want to know either.

Pighead's nerd hobby is anagrams.

And you practice it quite well.................. nerdlinger.

FearDark

Pighead wrote: »

Don't know who he is and seeing as his name is an anagram of "anal romeo", don't particularly want to know either.

Pighead's nerd hobby is anagrams.

Congrats on learning to use google. Good hobby.

Xavi6

dr.bollocko wrote: »

But you're not really a nerd unless you know who Alan Moore is.

Played left wing for Middlesbrough then Shels but turned out to be nothing more than a money hungry bastard

:cool:

MaybeLogic

dr.bollocko wrote: »

But you're not really a nerd unless you know who Alan Moore is.

The famous tax consultant?
That is nerdy.

punchdrunk

building model tanks


please Don't tell!!!

Pighead

thebanana wrote: »

Congrats on learning to use google. Good hobby.

Just like your username, you're yellow and toughish on the outside but when that toughish outside is peeled away you are nothing more than a soft mushy penis shaped mess.

Pighead's dealt with your type before bananaman. You haven't phased him in the slightest in this frank exchange we've had this morning. These feathers aren't for rustling.

stovelid

I love poring over maps of any kind: preferably urban ones like street maps or tube/subway maps, but also ordinance survey and atlases.

I used to draw my own street-maps of my estate when I was a kid.

Gone Drinking

I used to play counter-strike..

I win

Pighead

stovelid wrote: »

I love poring over maps of any kind: preferably urban ones like street maps or tube/subway maps, but also ordinance survey and atlases.

I used to draw my own street-maps of my estate when I was a kid.

We have ourselves a loser winner.

FearDark

Pighead wrote: »

Just like your username, 1.you're yellow and toughish on the outside but when that toughish outside is peeled away you are nothing more than a 2.soft mushy penis shaped mess.

Pighead's dealt with your type before bananaman. You haven't phased him in the slightest in this frank exchange we've had this morning. 3These feathers aren't for rustling.

1. Ooh racist...

2. You'd know...

3. You rustle a bush, You ruffle feathers.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Jaxen Curved Shipyard wrote: »

Nope, I'm a thick cunt this morning.

Ah, I see (just the one "t" by the way - sorry to be anal!) Another of my pastimes....

EDIT - As in correcting grammar... nothing anal... Pighead, you stay out of this.

Buford T Justice

Pighead wrote: »

Just like your username, you're yellow and toughish on the outside but when that toughish outside is peeled away you are nothing more than a soft mushy penis shaped mess.

Pighead's dealt with your type before bananaman. You haven't phased him in the slightest in this frank exchange we've had this morning. These feathers aren't for rustling.

OOh, dem's fighting words them are

Boards.

Big into my aviation, military games (Operation Flashpoint FTW), and after reading up on the Aubrey-Maturin series, now into age-of-sail history. Love seeing the Georgian buildings in Dublin city.

I recently had half a mind to look into that board-game stuff you see in model shops (the stuff they do in Minature Gaming forum, actually, and it'd be Napoleonic war stuff), but after making a cack of befriending a gamer on Facebook, I thought better of it. I have such a way with women.

Gone Drinking

stovelid wrote: »

I love poring over maps of any kind: preferably urban ones like street maps or tube/subway maps, but also ordinance survey and atlases.

I used to draw my own street-maps of my estate when I was a kid.

Map porn eh?

I bet your girlfriend cried when she found redmap.com in your browsing history

Pighead

thebanana wrote: »

3. You rustle a bush, You ruffle feathers.

You can do whatever you want to do with feathers! You can rustle them, tar them, paint them, swallow them, eat them, throw them or wear them. To suggest that ruffling is the only thing you can do to them means that either you are extremely naive or extremely intelligent. Pighead's going with the second one. It's a fair point.

fuelinjection

Whan I was a kid it was comics. 2000AD usually. Still have most of the old ones.

And fantasy books (before the internet was invented), great way to waste time.

Computers, my laptop is so perfectly setup it is quite sad. I downloaded a program last week to check my updates and weaknesses and it told me there were none and "go outside and get a life"

World of Warcraft ... sad but true. Only one character though so not too bad. FOR THE HORDE !!!

uch

I Like Beer

liah

1) Learning to design websites because I felt like it.
2) Learning German because I felt like it.
3) Spending hours and hours perfectly tweaking various customization programs to suit me (various msstyles are used, plus litestep, rocketdock, rainmeter, samurize are all programs I'm quite familiar with). This includes going into the configs and manually editing things pixel by pixel and shade by shade, creating icons, wallpapers, fonts, etc.
4) Being incredibly OCD/organized about how my folders are kept. For example, all films on my computer (200gb worth) are named correctly with the correct year in brackets beside it. If it's a trilogy or more, it has "Collection" in brackets beside it. If it's a TV series, it has the correct name followed by Season and then the requisite number, typed out (eg. "Three" instead of just "3"). For music (112gb worth), I have it organized by artist. If it's just one album, it's Artist - Album Title. If it's two albums, it's Artist - 2 Albums. If it's 3 or more, it's Artist - Various Albums. If it's a discography, it's Artist - Discography. If it's a few various singles, it's Artist - Various Tracks. Every single folder has to be that way, or I go mad.
5) Love videogames. A lot. Like, a lot a lot. Like, playing competitively in leagues a lot.
6) I have a screenname for every messenger I possibly can, tied through Digsby. Just in case.
7) I know my way well enough around computers to fix most things.
8) I read anything I can get my hands on; I really don't understand people who won't read.

Can't think of anything else right now, but there's got to be loads more.

petes

uch wrote: »

I Like Beer

Ah but do you brew it yourself?

6th

I run around in the dark looking for ghosts.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Deleted User wrote: »

Big into my aviation

+1 (for awhile).

I used to sit for hours listening to long haul flights on HF logging their sel-cal details and databasing the info

I still listen on VHF, mostly Dublin airport.

kowloon

Insurgent wrote: »

Ah but do you brew it yourself?

Hardcore.

Dublin_Gunner

liah wrote: »

1) Learning to design websites because I felt like it.
2) Learning German because I felt like it.
3) Spending hours and hours perfectly tweaking various customization programs to suit me (various msstyles are used, plus litestep, rocketdock, rainmeter, samurize are all programs I'm quite familiar with). This includes going into the configs and manually editing things pixel by pixel and shade by shade, creating icons, wallpapers, fonts, etc.
4) Being incredibly OCD/organized about how my folders are kept. For example, all films on my computer (200gb worth) are named correctly with the correct year in brackets beside it. If it's a trilogy or more, it has "Collection" in brackets beside it. If it's a TV series, it has the correct name followed by Season and then the requisite number, typed out (eg. "Three" instead of just "3"). For music (112gb worth), I have it organized by artist. If it's just one album, it's Artist - Album Title. If it's two albums, it's Artist - 2 Albums. If it's 3 or more, it's Artist - Various Albums. If it's a discography, it's Artist - Discography. If it's a few various singles, it's Artist - Various Tracks. Every single folder has to be that way, or I go mad.
5) Love videogames. A lot. Like, a lot a lot. Like, playing competitively in leagues a lot.
6) I have a screenname for every messenger I possibly can, tied through Digsby. Just in case.
7) I know my way well enough around computers to fix most things.
8) I read anything I can get my hands on; I really don't understand people who won't read.

Can't think of anything else right now, but there's got to be loads more.

Fcukin nerd

stovelid

stovelid wrote: »

I love poring over maps of any kind: preferably urban ones like street maps or tube/subway maps, but also ordinance survey and atlases.

I used to draw my own street-maps of my estate when I was a kid.

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

A couple of my faves.........Disuasive Cartography, MapDonalds

You're welcome.

Darksaga87

Hey you!! Lets fight!!

Fingers McGee wrote: »

OOh, dem's fighting words them are

Darksaga87

liah wrote: »

1) Learning to design websites because I felt like it.
2) Learning German because I felt like it.
3) Spending hours and hours perfectly tweaking various customization programs to suit me (various msstyles are used, plus litestep, rocketdock, rainmeter, samurize are all programs I'm quite familiar with). This includes going into the configs and manually editing things pixel by pixel and shade by shade, creating icons, wallpapers, fonts, etc.
4) Being incredibly OCD/organized about how my folders are kept. For example, all films on my computer (200gb worth) are named correctly with the correct year in brackets beside it. If it's a trilogy or more, it has "Collection" in brackets beside it. If it's a TV series, it has the correct name followed by Season and then the requisite number, typed out (eg. "Three" instead of just "3"). For music (112gb worth), I have it organized by artist. If it's just one album, it's Artist - Album Title. If it's two albums, it's Artist - 2 Albums. If it's 3 or more, it's Artist - Various Albums. If it's a discography, it's Artist - Discography. If it's a few various singles, it's Artist - Various Tracks. Every single folder has to be that way, or I go mad.
5) Love videogames. A lot. Like, a lot a lot. Like, playing competitively in leagues a lot.
6) I have a screenname for every messenger I possibly can, tied through Digsby. Just in case.
7) I know my way well enough around computers to fix most things.
8) I read anything I can get my hands on; I really don't understand people who won't read.

Can't think of anything else right now, but there's got to be loads more.

Apart from the website and german thing, Thats exactly me!:D

We need a nerd smiley.

Thomas828

I've been working out anagrams of London Underground stations. E.g. Tower Hill is White Roll; Earl's Court is Solar Truce, Mile End is Idle Men, etc. And Walthamstow Central is Crew Want Tall Thomas!

Heisenberg.

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dr.bollocko

Scien wrote: »

I actually completed that model T-Rex that came in parts with 'Dinosaurs!' Magazine.

How complete? Complete skeleton or did you go with the skin and all?
Cos anyone can just build the wood skeleton man.

Cianos

Lego. Lots and lots of Lego :pac:

liah

Darksaga87 wrote: »

Apart from the website and german thing, Thats exactly me!:D

We need a nerd smiley.

I thought I was crazy.

You do customization? What do you use? Show me screenshots.

Mad about stuff like that.

fuelinjection

Thomas828 wrote: »

I've been working out anagrams of London Underground stations.

Scien wrote: »

I actually completed that model T-Rex that came in parts with 'Dinosaurs!' Magazine.

liah wrote: »

1) Learning to design websites because I felt like it.
2) Learning German because I felt like it.
3) Spending hours and hours perfectly tweaking various customization programs to suit me
4) Being incredibly OCD/organized about how my folders are kept.
5) Love videogames. A lot. Like, a lot a lot. Like, playing competitively in leagues a lot.

What a bunch of nerds !! :pac::pac:

actually i feel better about myself now, way more normal and healthy

Lux23

Sure for alot of people any hobby that doesn't revolve around getting drunk and a curry chips on the way is nerdy.

shivvyban

I judge the concern schools debates....

Andrew33

If you do ANYTHING except sit in front of a tv watching premiership football you're considered a nerd, I know F all about football.

DevilsBreath

I used to collect stamps.
I used to make prince august toy soldiers "you melted metal and poured it into moulds" Then paint them up.
Had a huge collection of meccano “not the crap they make now, The real meccano”
Got into computers at the age of 10 and have never stopped.
I play Warhammer, D&D, Vampire the Requiem.
I build all my own PC’s.
Play nearly every PC games that comes out.
Have my own Teamspeak server for when myself and my mates are playing online.
Have a load of airsoft gear.
House is covered in computer components from old systems.

TheKells

Scien wrote: »

I actually completed that model T-Rex that came in parts with 'Dinosaurs!' Magazine.

So did I....that's not nerdy it's cool! :mad:
I saw an ad for a new "build your own dinosaur" magazine last night. £5.99 per magazine:eek:

Theta

liah wrote: »

4) Being incredibly OCD/organized about how my folders are kept. For example, all films on my computer (200gb worth) are named correctly with the correct year in brackets beside it. If it's a trilogy or more, it has "Collection" in brackets beside it. If it's a TV series, it has the correct name followed by Season and then the requisite number, typed out (eg. "Three" instead of just "3"). For music (112gb worth), I have it organized by artist. If it's just one album, it's Artist - Album Title. If it's two albums, it's Artist - 2 Albums. If it's 3 or more, it's Artist - Various Albums. If it's a discography, it's Artist - Discography. If it's a few various singles, it's Artist - Various Tracks. Every single folder has to be that way, or I go mad.
5) Love videogames..
8) I read anything I can get my hands on; I really don't understand people who won't read.

Same as these I build PC's and the odd server too but others I keep as my secret nerdy shame and none of you will ever find out plus plenty that aren't nerdy!

pickarooney

dr.bollocko wrote: »

I do nerd stuff like counting the number of letters in a word as people are speaking. It's easier than listening to them. But you're not really a nerd unless you know who Alan Moore is.

I did not realise other people did that. Do you also have a particular hatred for 11 letter words? Other primes I can deal with, but just can't abide 11-letter words.

dr.bollocko

Like Pickarooney?!!!! :mad: