Nerd hobbies & pasttimes..

arybvtcw0eolkf · 18-02-2010 11:46AM

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 · 18-02-2010 11:47AM

Insurgent wrote: »

Ah but do you brew it yourself?

Hardcore.

Dublin_Gunner · 18-02-2010 11:52AM

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

18-02-2010 12:00PM

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 · 18-02-2010 12:01PM

Hey you!! Lets fight!!

Fingers McGee wrote: »

OOh, dem's fighting words them are

Darksaga87 · 18-02-2010 12:03PM

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 · 18-02-2010 12:13PM

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!

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dr.bollocko · 18-02-2010 12:17PM

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 · 18-02-2010 12:18PM

Lego. Lots and lots of Lego :pac:

liah · 18-02-2010 12:20PM

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 · 18-02-2010 12:22PM

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 · 18-02-2010 12:24PM

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

shivvyban · 18-02-2010 12:31PM

I judge the concern schools debates....

Andrew33 · 18-02-2010 12:35PM

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 · 18-02-2010 12:37PM

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 · 18-02-2010 12:52PM

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 · 18-02-2010 12:53PM

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 · 18-02-2010 01:00PM

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 · 18-02-2010 01:04PM

Like Pickarooney?!!!! :mad:

Duggy747 · 18-02-2010 01:05PM

I have a nerdy obsession with film and can rhyme off 1000's of trivial movie facts..........thing is the oppertunity never comes up in conversation

Exactly 500gb of perfectly named (with year of release) movies & TV shows, I even bought a 2nd external hdd purely to copy my precious folders

Everyday, like clockwork, the very 1st thing I do when I get on the internet is aintitcool.com, empireonline.com, totalfilm.com and then boards.ie>Films forum........in exactly that order.

I'm always interested in anything space-related, like obscure things NASA has figured out about like why a certain planet is a darker shade of brown than another..................I usually keep that shìt to myself.

I will read absolutley anything, even women magazines! For years I couldn't just hop into bed and go to sleep unless I had a movie or video game magazine to read...........even if I read the damn thing a million times (The video game magazines used to be from the early 90's

)!!

My last job being the only in-house IT technician was the only job I've ever really loved..............I'd actually look forward to go into work!!

I'm now the IT "nerd" everyone refers me too when they (or their friend) has an IT problem. I charge in beer & fags.

I have such a horrbile urge to hold back when somebody has said something wrong.............."Must........not.............correct.........them!!!!"

Have zero interest in football, I don't hate it and do follow our boys in green but ultimately I don't give a flying fùck about it! People think you're a bit "limp-wristed" if you don't and I hate it when Taxi drivers talk to me about football (I just agree with them on football just to get the cheaper taxi rate :pac:)

Scien wrote:

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

Heh, heh, yea done that shìt too. Never painted him though, he's sitting in a filing cabinet along with the 3D glasses in the parents house somewhere!

I'm more interested in older games like Arcade, SNES, Mega Drive, etc (I have just under 10,000 games) than I am newer ones, though there are a few exceptions - Went sick in the head for Oblivion......

.....wow, how the hell did I ever pull women!?! :pac:

1nk3d4L1f3 · 18-02-2010 01:06PM

Question: How does working on a PC consider you a nerd? Maybe 10 yrs ago. But nowaday's every1 has a PC. My compulsion was after shooting every weekend. I'd strip my 3 guns down to the springs and piles the bits in to 1 pile. Then completey clean every part. And then put the 3 of them back together.

liah · 18-02-2010 01:10PM

1nk3d4L1f3 wrote: »

Question: How does working on a PC consider you a nerd? Maybe 10 yrs ago. But nowaday's every1 has a PC.

Oh it definitely still makes you a nerd. My housemate and I fix people's computers and the majority of people can't figure out how to use anything other than Internet Explorer and have actually asked us to link their ipods with itunes. These are people my age (22), these aren't geezers, these are people who should've done at least one computer class in public school in their lifetimes.

Unfortunately just owning a PC doesn't make anyone an expert, not by a longshot.. if it did, we'd be out of business. Lots of easy money to be made in the meantime though!

Stella777 · 18-02-2010 01:11PM

I have my own network analyzer and oscilloscope in my basement for my hobby.

petes · 18-02-2010 01:15PM

1nk3d4L1f3 wrote: »

Question: How does working on a PC consider you a nerd? Maybe 10 yrs ago. .

Being able to fix computers may not make you as much of a nerd as a few years ago but it still does. The amount of people out there that own computers and don't know how to use them properly let alone fix them is mad.

Me. I built the LHC in my spare time.

Michellenman · 18-02-2010 01:23PM

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.

pickarooney wrote: »

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.

I have a similar problem except mine's with car registrations. When I'm in the car, not driving obviously, I count up the numbers on the registration plates on the car in front/around me and add/subtract/divide/multiply the numbers until I get them to a number which is divisible by nine...

robz18 · 18-02-2010 01:24PM

IRC

Gillington · 18-02-2010 01:25PM

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.

pickarooney wrote: »

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.

I also do this! Not all the time mind as I've drifted off during conversations which my friends dont like! I usually take a sentence and see if it can be divided into 3's and get upset if it doesnt!

Another OCD nerdy thing is Car registration plates,I'll try and make year and Reg number the same in my head so for example 07 D 2113 is easy enough as both sides add up.

I used to collect football figures and have about 100 in the attic(which are worth a few €'s now

) .I'm obsessed with all things football including stats and useless trivia and could spend hours looking at players careers in-depth.

I think thats it!

petes · 18-02-2010 01:31PM

Gillington wrote: »

I'm obsessed with all things football including stats and useless trivia and could spend hours looking at players careers in-depth.

Statto....Statto!!!

NothingMan · 18-02-2010 01:42PM

Gillington wrote: »

I also do this! Not all the time mind as I've drifted off during conversations which my friends dont like! I usually take a sentence and see if it can be divided into 3's and get upset if it doesnt!

I do this as well. Even trying to justify a word like "don't" to "do not" if you need to an extra letter so you can devide the sentence by 3. It actually annoyed me so much when I was about 14/15 I actively tried to quit. Now I have it down to a healthy once in a while habit and not every single thing I see or read.

The fact that i've been doing it well over 10 years is crazy, at least i'm not the only nut job.

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