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

When I was in Australia my cousin and I used to hire jigsaws from the library, the whole flat ended up doing bits of it much to my annoyance it was fun!
I have been known to stay up until the wee hours as I will not be defeated by too much sky and the tackier the jigsaw the better in my opinion.

I also love a good look through a detailed atlas

I was the founder member of our school's maths club. Actually I was the only member and I used to get extra maths homework and view it as a treat. I still remember the pleasure I got from being stuck in my bedroom working out the answer to a particular puzzle (which was something like, "what's the smallest number which, written forwards, is exactly two times the same number written backwards". I couldn't do it now but I spent a long time working out the formula to solve it and it was a punch the air moment. I could have been at the disco with my friends but I was much happier being a nerd. .

I really enjoy Antiques Roadshow and I sometimes buy antiques magazines.

Love it smallclanger. i have a new way to pass my time. Because I have so much of it..

Would love to find covers of 'Joy to the world' by Three Dog Night. Love that song but feel that it has potential to be so much more...

radiohelen - if you're still on the thread -some of my fortran code is in the Met Office unified model !

And aircraft - I watched that bbc documentary about Rolls Royce engines with rapt amazement - the bit where they "inflate" the kind of metal honeycomb that the turbine blades are made from at high temperature and pressure - wow! .

I love maps too!

And jigsaw puzzles, have asked for a puzzle globe every Christmas for the last five years to no avail

And I get all the science jokes on the Big Bang. Like Stranded I have my own lab coat.

Spreadsheets are über cool. I also collect books and knit. My friends think I am an archetypical geek. But geek is the new cool.

A good one to start with is "Angel of the Morning". There are versions of that to suit all tastes .

OMG thesmallclanger-

Think i have a girl crush on you. That cover version ranking is super-geek.

I have a thing about supersonic aircraft, thanks to DH. We used to go to air shows. My proudest aircraft geek moment was spotting a Stealth passing soundlessly over my house. I was very excited, although actually seeing an SR-71 "Blackbird" on the ground came close.

A hobby I have when work is slack is to find a song on Youtube and listen to every properly-recorded cover version of it I can find. I then rank them in order of preference.

Oooh! Maps! I love maps. There is something very satisfying about plotting your own map.

Not done it in ages though. The last one was a geological map of a fault line in sedimentary rock. Oh, and mapping a geological feature to reveal what it was (it was a volcano) it made me feel like a Geology Sherlock.

Oh, and the complete 'The Waltons', 'Little Town On The Prairie' and an old video of the 'What Katy Did' dramatisation. All mine, all watched obsessively together with my 5 'Laura Ingalls Wilder' biographies, tourist guides, pull over pinnies I made for my daughter and one child named after a character......

Stationery....I could sit and play with it all day. I had a pretend stationery shop as a child with cut up pieces of wallpaper, shop bags etc as writing paper and never grew out of it.

Weird geeky Japanese stationery and weird geeky Japanese packaged products. Can be anything inside-just like to display the graphic design.

I collect those squidgy silicon spoons and cooking utensils and go ballistic if anybody uses them. My grown children's favourite 'game' is to use them without me seeing them take them out of the jar then wave them about in my face, covered in stirred bits of food. I can't stand it........

Friends, I think we have found ourselves a geek clique :o :o :o

No, the cubes are not all the same. And that's the exciting thing. The different designs on the cubes make them different mathematically in terms of number of permutations and solving etc.

I can also tell you the 11th digit of any ISBN if you tell me the first 10 (drunk party trick I haven't done er, more than once).

We could certainly throw in plenty of Blackadder inmysparetime.

Anyone for Anne of Green Gables? I have the additional two books after Anne of Ingleside - Rainbow Valley and Rilla of Ingleside. Not as good as original Anne but score some geek points.

Are they all the same, Avocado? All the cubes, I mean.

Wish I could solve the rubiks cube. (would-be-geek)

Mind you, I watch Countryfile.
Am very particular about grammar and spelling.
Love jigsaws, but can't get them out with all these small children around, so endlessly try to engage them in theirs instead. :o
I want to go to a party with the person up-thread who does Gauss-Jordan elimination in her head. So I can ask what Gauss-Jordan elimination IS.

Geek or would-be geek? Not sure...

I love Doctor Who, the original series, not the half-baked crap they make now. I love the dodgy special effects, the suspect acting, the outrageous costumes, the genuinely scary enemies and the genuinely crap enemies, the assistants that didn't know everything and were not smug like the current ones, more than one episode per story, the cliff hangers, the Doctors face appearing in the title sequence, love love LOVE it all.

Matt Smith can do one.

Oh, MrsDeVere, I do that with solitaire too, and I won't let myself go to sleep till I win a game. Sometime, I have very late nights!

inmysparetime I do the comparing new maps with historical maps thing too - google earth timeline adds another dimension :)

I have over 90 rubiks puzzles. 54 of them are cubes.

I am an active member of a G&S society and so are my DCs
I keep buttons from clothes I no longer own, just in case....
I go through drop down menus, to see what all the choices do.
I like old OS maps, and comparing them to new maps to see what's changed and what has remained.

Could we throw in a little blackadder? Red Dwarf (the early series' before they had a big budget)?
I'm with you on the continuity errors and historical accuracy fronts and often shout at the TV for such reasons
Anyone for an obsessive tea ritual?

waxlyrical ACG&S was one of my all time favourites.Why it is never repeated I don't know.
'Knaw then vitnery'

i love you all. i suggest a giant commune. :)

Harry Potter, Doctor Who (DVDs arranged chronologically) knitting, jigsaws, arranging books by author (ficton) and subject matter (non), musicals, sudoku, board games (jenga gets a special mention, not technically a board game, but hilarious fun when drunk) grammar pedantry (even though mine is sometimes sadly lacking) musicals (pre 1967, except annie, sondheim and wicked) & historical accuracy of theatrical costume, props and set.

Ohh,maps and atlases,how could I forget them.DH and I spent a happy Sunday afternoon working out where all the local bridlepaths went,with the aid of google earth.

I could once also tell you the phone codes and postcodes of just about everywhere from Milton Keynes in the South,up to Sheffield.I'm a bit rusty now as it is 10 years since I last used my knowledge professionally,maybe I should brush it up? Who knows when I might need to know the area code for Corby?