Come and fess up to the ways in which you are really square/bit of a nerd

bilblio 12 year old DS2 has just discovered 'meet me in st Louie' and has also perfected the 'all i do the whole day through, is dream of you' song and dance routine from 'singin' in the rain'

I love how our geeky bits are passed through generations ( He knits as well...and loves classic doctor who, he knows more than me, his knowledge is encyclopedic!)

Thank you nursenic as you probably have access to the equipment, I invite you to try it, you won't regret it.

DD1 is (as I mentioned) a geek & spent a happy hour reading this thread and chortling with delight.

Her favourite apparel at the moment is a rainbow coloured jacket with a fleece lining & a hood. Her BF nicknamed it her "Happy Dementor Coat", I shall try & post a piccie tomorrow.

Her happiness was complete when DD2 reported back that when they were walking to the bus this week 2 midget (Y7's-boys) were overheard to say

"see that girl in the stripy jacket-she's on our bus.She's well weird just sits there knitting "

That's my girl, proud to be different, my job is done!

overmy I'd love to order my books by spine colour but DH has forbidden it. :(
I also love a good spreadsheet.
Used to morris dance and really want to take it up again.
Went to a folk festival for my honeymoon, and stayed in a tipi. :o
Also love musicals which I've passed on to 4yo DD. She'll often be caught singing "meet me in St Louis"

Respect, Spiderslegs to the owners of minds/brains which can devise such an excellent after dinner game. Total respect.

Overmy you know it's wrong to order your books by spine-shade don't you?

Nursenic, we had wine, we had a blood pressure monitor, we had reference material, we had exhausted the 'it's just words though, what does it actually mean' game (another favourite), it was a natural progression...

I forgot, as well as the cube obsession, I run my computer on Ubuntu, and DS's computer too.

I can take apart and fix my washing machine when it breaks.

I have lots of stationary. And all coloured pencils and felt tips are arranged by colour order. According to the rainbow.

Not nerdy, just obsessive, but all my books and CDs are arranged by colour order too, because it looks nice.

Forgot to say that I endured years of torment at school for finding Shakespeare funny. As in laugh out loud funny. As in jumper stuffed in mouth so that awful bully who said I looked like a womble wouldn't hear me and add it to the ammunition he already had to make my life miserable.

I love you lot!

Love jigsaws but no time/space to do them (feel a purchase of a jigroll coming on)
I love Terry Pratchett and Robin Hobb (although the one about the soldiers was pants hence why I cannot remember its name) and if the book has elves, swords and magic in I'll probably love it.
I used to knit, I love to do Batik and I am teaching myself to crochet.
I once phoned OH from a carpark so he could listen to the sound of a car engine as it was a bit Phwoaar!
My 'thing' is religions, I am currently reading lots about Judaism.....
I go to church and I like to sing.
Felt tips and coloured pencils should always be arranged in colour order......
Our Honeymoon was to St Nazaire so that we could visit the submarine pens.....
If I had the money I would wear dresses akin to an imaginary medieval princess.....

I can solve a Rubik's cube in 2 minutes. Not only that, but I solve it at least ten times a day.

I have over 500 apps on my iPhone mostly logic puzzles. I do need to weed a lot out though.

Oh. Now I need a necklace with my name in amino acids. Damn.

How did you come up with the idea for your parlour/after dinner game, Spiderslegs?

I really need to know the thought processes involved.

I think you are a really strong contender, BTW.

I love playing point and click games on the Ipad, the ones where you have to find hidden objects and solve puzzles. I also secretly play Harry Potter Lego on the DS and last but not least I love downloading library books onto my EReader.
My name is FayKnights and I am a geek.

I know more about steam engines than a 28 year old girl ever should.

I am rarely happier than when cataloguing and ordering things.

I recently spent several days devising a filing system and cataloguing my elderly father's digital photos on his computer, as he had managed to save many of them several times over. It was unbelievably satisfying.

Also a fan of lists, and naturally, spreadsheets.

I would truly rather organise things in my pyjamas than go out for the night. The 20 year old me would have recoiled in horror at the 36 year old me.....!

I bought a classical music compilation (100 tracks) for a car trip with my parents, specifically so we could avoid the god-awful plays they have on radio 3 of an evening we could play a guessing game to see who could guess the title/composer!

Despite being classical music nuts we did quite badly though

I only buy DS large Star Wars Lego sets so I can do them for him help.

I set myself a project last Christmas of reading the entire Science Fiction Masterworks series, I have nearly completed my project.

DH & I are going to an AI conference in San-Francisco next year.

DH is a software developer, DF is a Cosmologist, the most fun the three of us have after a family supper (everyone else clears off for some reason) is to strap DF's blood pressure monitor on & take it in turns to give the wearer an entry from the encyclopedia or dictionary to describe - the winner is the one who maintains the lowest BP & heart-rate whilst either being completely correct or emphatically bull-shitting (I tend to get more excited WHEN I KNOW I'M RIGHT). (Scoring is not an exact science however).

I sat down with a pack of cards over Christmas to work out how many combinations of hands were possible in a game of Texas Hold 'em (it was a lot).

I do however look completely normal.

He is gorgeous, Biblio.

Aw - cute in his vest (love his big bobbled hat too ) - gorgeous kids, - gorgeous names [smiles]

Oh, and my 12 week old DS is currently wearing a "Newbie" vest :o I'll put a pic on my profile.

Love jigsaws
Have built my own PC (then found a stick to turn it on with Just In Case.) :o
Love Joss Whedon
Can code HTML & CSS
Have a huge stack of D&D books and can't wait till the kids are old enough to have family games.
Take crochet projects to the pub
Have 2 Spinning Wheels
Love maps. We've just recovered the belongings from our car that was stolen at Christmas. I'm very pleased they left my annotated Anglesey map in the glove box.

And lastly, the one my computer geek friends say even out geeks them.... I still use Telnet chat groups

Oh, I was nitpicking. I know I was.

I have an engineering degree.

I used to watch OU programmes when I was a child.

I love a good factory production line - my favourite bit of 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' was always the opening titles, and I genuinely enjoyed visiting the Keswick Pencil Museum.

I stare longingly at the jigsaws in WHSmith/charity shops, and wish I had the time and space to get stuck in to a good 1000-piecer.

I love Only Connect (and indeed all of BBC4), and would like Victoria Coren to be my BFF.