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[Kilroy the Grand]

I met the guy who played aragon outside of a bookstore

You met John Hurt!?

Viggo Mortensen

[MantisMan]

I got a tour of the David Florida Space Laboratory (where they build satellites) as a result of talking to some guy while waiting for the library to open. I recommended a book series for his kid.

The 2 mile walk through slush with holey shoes to get the the nearest bus stop and the subsequent 10 hours of wet, cold feet were not as fun though.

[Count Crosby]

My nerdiest achievement to date is probably me recently doing well enough in the Intermediate Mathematical Challenge to get into the Intermediate Mathematical Olympiad, to do the Maclaurin (the hardest) paper. I'm still waiting for the result from the Maclaurin paper, not to hopeful though     I'm happy that i got into the Maclaurin though, as you had to get in the top 500 in the entire of the UK.

I've also designed my own tabletop rpgs, most notably one based on the villains of Gotham city, using aspects from the 1st edition Warhammer fantasy roleplay system.

I also obviously collect Warhammer, both 40k and Fantasy of-course. With a 10,000 point Chaos Space Marine army including a forge-world brass scorpion, a converted shadowsword and several other converted models. And a 3,000 point vampire counts army for fantasy. I kinda regret how much I've spent on this stuff (the brass scorpion cost £140 alone) as i still can't go toe to toe with my friends 15,000 point imperial guard army (including a scratch built warlord titan and an entire Leman Russ tank company and around 500 individual gaurdsmen) and his Dad's 20,000 point space marine army (including around 100 terminators).

I also do a bit of over-clocking with my pc currently running my i5 2500k at just over 4ghz.

I started playing the original age of empires when I was 3 and by the age of 5 could beat the AI on hard difficulty as well as my father occasional.

I also have a library of about 400 physical books, as well as many times that number of ebooks.

[Flying Dice]

Hoo boy, if we're talking books... I've got something in the range of 1500-2000 books, to the point where any place I live in for a substantial period of time is eventually filled with stacks up to around waist-height because I have far too few shelves and non-floor flat surfaces. If I had the cash to buy every book I wanted and a source that could provide stuff that is out of print, I don't even want to think about the consequences.

[Count Crosby]

Hoo boy, if we're talking books... I've got something in the range of 1500-2000 books, to the point where any place I live in for a substantial period of time is eventually filled with stacks up to around waist-height because I have far too few shelves and non-floor flat surfaces. If I had the cash to buy every book I wanted and a source that could provide stuff that is out of print, I don't even want to think about the consequences.

The thing is I'm 16, and I've read more books than most people read in their lifetime (just checked and I have 1,056 e-books). Also if you don't have enough money for all the reading material you want there are plenty of e-books available for free and some of the stories on Wattpad are decent, even if the website is largely dominated by disgusting Twilight-esque "vampire" books.

[Shinotsa]

Logged probably about 300 days played on WoW. I've read everything Tolkein (some with the help of his son) wrote about Middle Earth three times over. And right now I'm applying for a position under a well cited psychiatrist in a research lab. Hopefully all goes well.

I've considered tabletop rpgs, but I never seem to be able to meet the right people for it at my university. It has good science and art programs, but I'm not so sure about anything to do with computers. It's a crying shame too, it seems like it could be a load of fun, despite being incredibly nerdy.

[Flying Dice]

Hoo boy, if we're talking books... I've got something in the range of 1500-2000 books, to the point where any place I live in for a substantial period of time is eventually filled with stacks up to around waist-height because I have far too few shelves and non-floor flat surfaces. If I had the cash to buy every book I wanted and a source that could provide stuff that is out of print, I don't even want to think about the consequences.

The thing is I'm 16, and I've read more books than most people read in their lifetime (just checked and I have 1,056 e-books). Also if you don't have enough money for all the reading material you want there are plenty of e-books available for free and some of the stories on Wattpad are decent, even if the website is largely dominated by disgusting Twilight-esque "vampire" books.

E-readers just don't feel right to me; it isn't even simply an issue with screens doing a better job of killing my eyesight. The tactile sensation of holding a book and turning pages just feels... right. At this point, too, the issue is often less "I can't afford this because I get paid near minimum wage and need to pay tuition." and more "This is no longer in print." or "Gah, why is the speculative fiction section so tiny? And why is it full of shitty supernatural romance and zombie bandwagoning? Why the hell is there less than a foot of shelf space devoted to Asimov?". For example, I would honestly be surprised if the Lensman trilogy was available at all as e-books, much less for free, and (to my knowledge) it is no longer in print, so I go digging through used bookstores (which, incidentally, are still the best place to find books, if you don't mind suspicious stains/smells).

[fqllve]

Hoo boy, if we're talking books... I've got something in the range of 1500-2000 books, to the point where any place I live in for a substantial period of time is eventually filled with stacks up to around waist-height because I have far too few shelves and non-floor flat surfaces. If I had the cash to buy every book I wanted and a source that could provide stuff that is out of print, I don't even want to think about the consequences.

Oh man, I am so jealous of you you don't even know. It totally doesn't count as a debilitating addiction if it's books! I probably spend as much on books a month as I do on groceries.

Of course, I like to move around a lot, I can't even imagine what having 2000 books would be like in that situation. Books are one of the hardest things to pack well. It's like the heaviest puzzle in the universe.

[Flying Dice]

Hoo boy, if we're talking books... I've got something in the range of 1500-2000 books, to the point where any place I live in for a substantial period of time is eventually filled with stacks up to around waist-height because I have far too few shelves and non-floor flat surfaces. If I had the cash to buy every book I wanted and a source that could provide stuff that is out of print, I don't even want to think about the consequences.

Oh man, I am so jealous of you you don't even know. It totally doesn't count as a debilitating addiction if it's books! I probably spend as much on books a month as I do on groceries.

Of course, I like to move around a lot, I can't even imagine what having 2000 books would be like in that situation. Books are one of the hardest things to pack well. It's like the heaviest puzzle in the universe.

Hah, yes. It's like Tetris, except you get nothing but s-blocks and you have to hold the television in one hand while you play with the other.

[DarkWolfXV]

Im interested in anatomical pathology.

[FearfulJesuit]

Holy shit, books.

I'm sort of limited in my book habits, because my parents give me $10 a week for allowance, of which maybe 80% goes to the damn things, and then anything else I have to ask for for Christmas or my birthday. My father's a history teacher and has a history library- plus a bunch of classic literature- to rival any of his colleagues- maybe a good 1000 books? My mother just mooches off our collective libraries. Even at that, I have 3 bookshelves, which are desperately inadequate, and probably a good 250 books that are in my "real" (ie not inherited from childhood) library. Again, this is limited only by my pitifully small income.

[Sirus]

My nerd credentials (the following items may or may not count as "nerdy"):

I own around 300 books, many of them sci-fi of varying hardness, but also some programming and theoretical physics
I'm currently listening to pirate-themed hard rock music
I was a founding member of a writing club, and served two terms as President
--was also President of a french club
I knew about the Pokemon game before the anime
I have introduced several friends to Dwarf Fortress, Warhammer 40k, and Nethack
I discovered TV-Tropes and the SCP Foundation without being linked to either by someone I knew
I went to a national competition for the programming division

[MrWiggles]

Oh forgot about this. I taught myself how to use Excel, by making an Excel sheet for Monopoly. It'll even do things like adjust rent for monopolies, & houses. It pretty useful for keeping track of how well a property is doing compared with income recieved and expense on expansion.

[Yannanth]

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[Araph]

I play Dwarf Fortress.

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But since everyone else here does too, I'd better list something else.

Spoiler:  My Credentials (click to show/hide)

---Literature
Every year I start on a quest to construct my own language. Last year I made an alphabet that had, I believe, 30 characters that represented the phonetic sounds of the English alphabet (minus a few sounds I didn't like or were redundant), had a simple syntax, and had a very limited dictionary. Then I accidentally threw away the notebook I'd written everything down in when I dumped all of my school stuff out of my backpack at the beginning of summer. 

I've read (and this is only counting books, and not rereading the same books) several bookcases worth of literature. Counting rereading, I've probably read half a dozen bookcases. Counting reading articles on line, TVTropes, and other miscellaneous stuff, I don't even have an estimate.

I've started writing books (never got around to finishing any after I mentally punched holes in all of their plots), and I've actually submitted several comedy articles to Cracked.com. Four of them, to be precise. I also have eighteen pages of background information on an animated show I plan to try my hand at animating once I get Autodesk Maya on my computer.

---Computer Stuff
I taught myself basic C++, BASIC, and HTML programming out of books and online tutorials.

I also did the same thing with animation using Lightwave 3D (hopefully I'll be able to switch to Maya when I get it to work on my new computer).

I'm proficient with Illustrator, Premier, and Dreamweaver.

---Gaming
I got over a hundred hours of playtime in Skyrim during the first two or so weeks after I got the game.

I dug through the internet to determine how to set up a Minecraft server running mods. Somewhat of a minor achievement, but meh.

My fondest memories of playing the computer as a kid (well, not exactly a kid, but younger than I am now) are of playing Dwarf Fortress and Morrowind.

I created my own tabletop RPG, and even got to the testing phase. It got set aside a long time ago, though.

---Other Stuff
I tinker around with circuitry as a hobby, and made a circuit that would (hopefully) work as the trigger mechanism for a little railgun.