What makes you a geek?

[Vandiablo]

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Thanks for enlightening me. Long ago when I played D&D, years before there was AD&D, I naively thought that our GP rewards were "gold pieces".

By the way, starting this thread gets you 5 Silly Points (SP) and posting a pic of Wicket gets you 150 Excellence Points (known as either EP or XP).

For the record, I am a retired Royal Geek. While in the midst of my heaviest D&D dayze, I was:
-Captain of the Math Team
-Pres of the Chess Club
-Pres of the Wargamers' Guild
-attendee of two Star Trek conventions
-a member of my school's string orchestra
-a member of my school's quiz-show team

I was never involved in either Debate or comics-fandom. I have my standards. (Tho I do have a stack of 35-yr-old Dennis the Menaces...)

I was actually cool when I was in elementary school. I was a card-carrying member of Dick Dastardly's organization, until I lost the card. And I carried a Yellow Submarine lunchbox, which I still have.

Unfortunately, the coolness of my Yellow Submarine lunchbox is more than offset by:
-my Star Wars pillow. This is from the first movie, but the Luke and Leia on the pillow don't match the actors from the movie. Supposedly the artwork predated the casting.
-my Commodore 64. I still keep it, hoping that my Wizard of Wor cartridge will someday work again. I haven't tried it in 10 years though. All the other cartridges still worked *sob* why did my favorite stop?? I'm considering digging it out and having my 5-y-o sons play "International Soccer" on it. Modern soccer games would be too distracting.
-my Dungeon Master screen. This is actually pretty cool. My brother made it and it looks like a castle.
-the fact that I know Algol.

And, um, I am afraid to mention this, but, um, here goes: I collect math books. For pleasure. Still a geek.

-V

p.s. The math books I keep are mostly those above intro-to-calculus level. Anyone want any titles? Anyone? Anyone?