Fun You know you're a nerd when...

You've awakened my curiosity, VLM, which episode and what song?

 

Oh it was one of the earliest and they were telling him he could get songs through the archives and he said, "How about Three Dog Knight?" There was no specific song asked for or played.

 

When the first few threads you read in the JCC are mostly comic book related.

 

...you watch this vid:



And realize Freddy is wearing Corellian Blood Stripes.

 

When you change your avatar to... well you can see.

 

When you can quote said character.

 

Your signature changes every Sunday to dialogue from the intro cutscene of The Legend of Zelda: The Faces of Evil.


And no one notices.

 

When you read Wikipedia articles about obscure literature from a century ago.

 

When you give yourself a crash course in chemistry so you can help a friend with their homework... and end up with a better grasp of the material than they do, despite having just read up about it.

 

*waves her hand excitedly*
If you've got any other questions I can help! I love chem.


^This entire post is also quite nerdy.

 

They were confused about the concept of Balmer lines. I tried explaining it to them as a rocket orbiting a planet and firing off jets to transition to lower orbits, with those jets being the visible spectrum that the hydrogen electron gives off as it transitions from higher energy levels.

Once I figured out what the principal quantum number was (and explained that to them), I figured out the rocket analogy and thought that maybe it'd be an easy way to explain it.

Maybe I'm just into quantum physics, but it made sense to me when I read about it.

 

...the powerful mega villain who left his human body behind destroyed the scheming mother of of the protagonist while she tried to evoke the death of the Queen of the land. And then he summoned down a rock from orbit to obliterate her "cooling corpse" and the tower of the castle it resided in. At that moment the protagonist could have taken power, but he refused with wisdom.

This you experienced while reading a book in the waiting room while getting an oil change at the dealership, while others sat around you unaware.

 

When part of your Halloween celebrations consists of Bill Nye and a serious discussion of monster physics.

 

When your plans for five jugs of liquid latex include making molds to mass-produce RPG miniatures.

 

When you look at a charm bracelet online and Jesus looks like a Cyberman

 

...when this song comes up on a SiriusXm station:







to which you immediately think of...

 

I finally finished my Bonnie miniature. It's a 1.5-inch tall miniature of Bonnie from Five Nights at Freddy's and is to scale with HerClix and Mage Knight figures and sculpted for use with d20 campaigns. If I cannibalize a base from one of my HeroClix figures and write up stats, I can use Bonnie in HeroClix.

All I have to do now is draft up a character sheet and stats for Bonnie if he's used as a player character. Otherwise, I think I'd just draft up monster stats. Monster stats would be more likely.

I'm so nerdy that I'm putting quite a bit of thought into this.

 

You know your'e a nerd when...

You watch the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show and you notice something annoying.

In season 2, the Shredder is revealed to be an alien called Ch'rell (see my avatar). Outside of his human exo-suit he has a higher pitched voice than in the suit. This convention is maintained throughout the season.

However, from season 3 onwards, Ch'rell retains the deeper voice, even when outside of his suit.

This makes no sense, is highly annoying to me, and would probably be overlooked by most viewers.

 

...you tell THIS GUY about a facebook page devoted to eventual manned missions to Jupiter and its moons and he becomes an admin.

 

When a pair of flashlights look like an old - school sonic screwdriver.

 

I am getting this for Christmas. Am I a nerd yet?

 

You cheer for blood at make-believe jousting.

 

You discuss the logistics of how much fart it would take to be deadly.

The answer: A lot of fart.

 

No, that's not nerdy, just very juvenile.

 

But we went into the chemical compositions of farts just to determine what gases would cause the most problems and how many liters of the average fart one would need in an enclosed space to replace the air.