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hrjSo one of my co-workers has challenged me to a geek-off. His credentials are good: we've argued Star Trek trivia; he bored the rest of us to tears discussing World of Warcraft strategy with someone from another department; I accept him as a worthy challenger. But I think he's in over his head. He defined the structure of the geek-off contest: every day for a week we are each to bring in some artifact demonstrating our geekhood and they are to be judged against each other by the acclaim of the other co-workers. I won today's round with my "Hittite homework assignment turned in on a clay tablet in cuneiform" versus his "nearly unsolvable maze drawn on a sheet of notebook paper." For tomorrow's entry, I believe I shall submit "personal note of thanks in the preface of a fantasy novel for research services rendered to the author". But I must ponder ideas for the remainder of the challenge. I wouldn't want to lose through complacency.
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Date: 2009-02-03 06:02 am (UTC)Hmm. Interesting.
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Date: 2009-02-03 09:25 am (UTC)This is way, way, way too fun. I look forward to hearing about the rest of the entries!
(And, an excuse to use the Hittites icon!)
ETA: Oh! herald-geeking: have you done a April-fool LoI? (I'm remembering Acura Mazda, but I have no idea if that was one of yours.) And then there is the Documentation-geeking: the which of these things is *not* period doc-set :-) :-) :-)
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Date: 2009-02-03 09:34 am (UTC)Pfui. Unless there was some sort of discontinuity built into it, a 2-D maze is laughable.
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Date: 2009-02-03 09:34 am (UTC)Did you get any kind of scroll when you got given your permanent heraldic title? That would be suitably geeky: there aren't that many people in the world named after mythical beasty-womeny-things.
How about something you've composed? I occasionally do ridiculously complicated stuff -- my alliterative, tightly-rhymed double-acrostic in answer to a filk of a song I wrote (http://flurf.net/batpage/TruthAboutVikings) being the most extreme that I can think of. Have you done anything like that?
But really - I don't think Mr "look at my intricate scribble gosh I'm teh g33k g0d yes indeedy" is really going to come up with anything, even if you do get complacent.
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Date: 2009-02-03 12:05 pm (UTC)The problem is, he knows it is a serious throw down now. He may have realized something as pitiful as a maze is barely going to trigger your notice (and then long enough only to babble about some maze stuff that is interesting and cool.) If he is on the run, and if he gets really competitive, pull out the dead animals. Projects from your childhood would solidify your competitive position. It would demoralize him. Plus, you can be *just* that gross if you really want to learn about something. (Too bad you cannot pull that one out for Children's day. The diversity bonus points for presenting something from your own youth would be fabulous. You could just lay claim to the geek point for knowing/celebrating a Japanese holiday.)
Fly free and be the relentless geek we all believe you to be!
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Date: 2009-02-03 01:22 pm (UTC)Your opponent is so doomed....
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Date: 2009-02-03 03:43 pm (UTC)Can't wait to read on the rest of this.
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Date: 2009-02-03 03:44 pm (UTC)Looking forward to the accounts of the rest of this encounter.
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Date: 2009-02-04 03:01 am (UTC)The visitor asked, "So which of them do you think is more authenticity minded?'
After I stopped laughing, I said, "I don't have any idea. Besides, how would we find someone to judge it?" (If there's anyone else out there who knows both of them, you'll know why this is funny.)
The next time I saw
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Date: 2009-02-04 02:50 pm (UTC)