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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: vils on Wed, 24 March 2010, 06:49:24

Title: Geek of the year.
Post by: vils on Wed, 24 March 2010, 06:49:24: Partially thanks to my keyboard mania I developed over here I was appointed geek of the year by Microsoft Sweden yesterday.
I got a Xbox360 elite and will get their motionsensor Natal when it's released.
Thanks to you all for encouraging my bizarre hobbies.
Title: Geek of the year.
Post by: Rajagra on Wed, 24 March 2010, 06:55:26: Well done! :thumb: For some reason I imagine Sweden has some of the geekiest geeks on the planet, so thats quite an achievement!:hail:
Title: Geek of the year.
Post by: trievalot on Wed, 24 March 2010, 06:56:54: OMG.....you have a keyboard fetish. nerd.
enjoy the xbox 360 and well done!
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Post by: itlnstln on Wed, 24 March 2010, 07:34:26: Congrats, Vils. Well done.
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Post by: kode on Wed, 24 March 2010, 08:07:25: Grattis.
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Post by: hoggy on Wed, 24 March 2010, 15:07:35: That's just fab! Well done.

Now get out there and buy some more keyboards!
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Post by: Oqsy on Wed, 24 March 2010, 17:40:59: Big congrats on the win! It's cool to see a geekhacker acknowledged as a supreme geek!

sidebar:

It is a shame that Microsoft rewards people by giving them gaming consoles that are broken from the factory. I'd ask them if they'd swap for a PC of equal value, or a PS3 perhaps. The combined design flaws and manufacturing incompetence of the 360 is one of the lowest lows in the history of Microsoft. Worse than Millennium Edition, worse than Vista... Every person I've known or played online with that has owned a 360 has had to send them back for repairs, some of them a ridiculous number of times.
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Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Wed, 24 March 2010, 20:39:01: Well if it is that bad, then how come XBOX is so successful? And also, I wouldn't say that Millenium was the worst, but Vista was just awful. I would rather use Windows 3.1 than Vista.
Title: Geek of the year.
Post by: DreymaR on Thu, 25 March 2010, 03:36:56: X-Box is successful because it's cheaper than PS3 while being a true HD system (unlike the Wii), has some exclusive games that are good, and has a following.

I can't know for sure, but maybe if you used Win3.1 for a week or two now you might change your mind on that subject? Between Me and Vista, might be a bit more of a tossup but I'd still go with Vista because you know, there's software that works with it. An OS is only so much fun without modern-day software (but some Linux fans might disagree).
Title: Geek of the year.
Post by: vils on Thu, 25 March 2010, 05:29:37: Thanks (och Tack) to you all.
As a bonus I got some nice KBs as well. When I was heading home I passed by a second hand shop next to the train station and bought a model M from 1991 and a Ambra KB in mint condition for around $10.
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Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Thu, 25 March 2010, 13:34:53: Quote from: ripster;166745
Congrats.

Make sure they personally deliver that Xbox.

Presenter In Website
Show Image
(http://img.hexus.net/v2/lifestyle/misc/geekgirl.jpg)

That's nice...
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Post by: itlnstln on Thu, 25 March 2010, 13:52:36: Quote from: ripster;166799
She can touch my iPad any day.

Huh? Joystick, Wiimote, Trackpoint (for you less-stallion-types out there) maybe, but "iPad?" It sounds more like something she would have.
Title: Geek of the year.
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Thu, 25 March 2010, 13:58:34: No she would have a USB port... and two Trackpoints
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Post by: vils on Thu, 25 March 2010, 15:36:56: The females who guided me through the prize ceremony were almost as good looking, although not as lightly dressed, as the one in the picture.
I had to carry, the surprisingly heavy, xbox-box to the absurdly delayed train myself. Whilst my flowers died I got drunk in a train station-hotel in the middle of nowhere (Mjölby). But I arrived home with my precious xbox and my two new kb's some hours after midnight.
My comp is dying upon me, I'll be back.
Title: Geek of the year.
Post by: vils on Thu, 25 March 2010, 15:48:50: I believe that I was awarded the prize for my KB collecting, kitchen-knife collecting and my Facit project. This along with some McGyver skills (repairing a printer with a spring from a ball-point-pen and plumbing with a PET-flask.)
Not related to this I received a call from Intel the other day, they will supply my typewriter comp with a i7-870 processor and a DP55 mobo (http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/DP55SB/DP55SB-overview.htm).
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Post by: itlnstln on Thu, 25 March 2010, 15:49:46: Damn, you've got connections.
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Post by: ch_123 on Thu, 25 March 2010, 15:57:38: As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives...
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Post by: ricercar on Thu, 25 March 2010, 18:18:23: I shook hands with Michael Collins the year his friends walked on the moon and all he got was a t shirt.
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Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Thu, 25 March 2010, 19:12:35: Wow Michael Collins, I would love to meet anybody from the Apollo missions. Especially from Apollo 13, if they are still living, that is.
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Post by: ricercar on Thu, 25 March 2010, 19:51:50: Collins came to Detroit for some reason in 69-70. We were outdoors and a crowd was milling around. I left my family to explore, and I found Collins shaking hands with people, so I got in line. When I returned to my family, my dad for some reason didn't believe I had been able to shake hands with "the astronaut." I must have been a dodgy lad.

It was years before I understood Collins didn't land when his companions did. Whenever I imagine the disappointment, I get indignant on his behalf, but someone had to man the Columbia.

Then again I read a blurb somewhere that NASA really didn't know how deep the dust was on the Moon. They had a 67" probe on one of the LEM feet to make sure they wouldn't be engulfed before finding a hard surface. If they couldn't take off again, piloting Columbia would be the best role to have.
Title: Geek of the year.
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Thu, 25 March 2010, 20:08:12: Hmm, you seem to know your stuff about NASA and the Apollo missions. That is something I have always found interesting. It is sad that the computers they used to fly to the moon are less advanced than your average car computer is today.
Title: Geek of the year.
Post by: Oqsy on Thu, 25 March 2010, 20:52:12: Define "advanced"
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Post by: itlnstln on Thu, 25 March 2010, 21:08:18: Well, nobody's met me, yet, so you're all missing out.

Webwit, the current duck silhouette in your seemingly rotating avatar, looks like it's taking a piss.
Title: Re: Geek of the year.
Post by: HaaTa on Thu, 25 March 2010, 21:26:02: Next your gonna say rabbits don't lay eggs...

:P
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Post by: DreymaR on Fri, 26 March 2010, 03:18:33: DUCK - IT'S A RABBIT!!!

(http://www.naute.com/images/rabduck.jpg)

The RabDuck must surely be born from an egg I think?
Title: Geek of the year.
Post by: kode on Fri, 26 March 2010, 05:10:14: Saw threadstarters picture in my newspaper today.
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Post by: kriminal on Fri, 26 March 2010, 07:11:35: +1 for thread derailment
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Post by: HaaTa on Fri, 26 March 2010, 08:45:07: Quote from: kriminal;166993
+1 for thread derailment

Lol, Geek of the Year to RabDuck. Doesn't get much better than this.

*Wants to be proven wrong :D*
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Post by: vils on Fri, 26 March 2010, 09:38:35: Quote from: kode;166989
Saw threadstarters picture in my newspaper today.

Link?
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Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Fri, 26 March 2010, 11:43:47: Quote from: ripster;166946
Technically birds don't piss. If you would like me to go on please let me know.

Birds have no bladders, so they cannot actually urinate. That is also why they poop all over the place. They have no control over when the poop. This makes it so they don't need to store their poop, which means they will weigh less, which makes it easier to fly. There is the science behind that.
Title: Geek of the year.
Post by: itlnstln on Fri, 26 March 2010, 12:01:15: Thanks.
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Post by: kode on Fri, 26 March 2010, 13:28:25: Quote from: vils;167018
Link?

To my physical paper issue of Computer Sweden? Sorry, can't do that.

http://cstjanster.idg.se/losnummer/ "sparv"
Title: Geek of the year.
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Fri, 26 March 2010, 13:35:59: Quote from: ripster;167041
Technically birds don't poop. Details, details......

Show Image
(http://www.insidesocal.com/tv/everybody%20poops.jpg)

Your picture contradicts your statement, not sure if you noticed the bird in the picture.
Title: Geek of the year.
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Fri, 26 March 2010, 19:23:20: LOL I just realized that was there. Also, being of an age at when I find women appealing, it seems odd to me that women also poop.

How did we get on this topic anyways? Oh yeah, of course it was Ripster...
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Post by: EverythingIBM on Fri, 26 March 2010, 20:04:35: Quote from: Computer-Lab in Basement;167212
LOL I just realized that was there. Also, being of an age at when I find women appealing, it seems odd to me that women also poop.

How did we get on this topic anyways? Oh yeah, of course it was Ripster...

Funny, I thought computers were more appealing... but I guess they both take your money.
Title: Geek of the year.
Post by: itlnstln on Sat, 27 March 2010, 11:14:23: Quote from: Computer-Lab in Basement;167212
How did we get on this topic anyways? Oh yeah, of course it was Ripster...

Excuse me. I was the one that successfully derailed this thing.
Title: Geek of the year.
Post by: itlnstln on Sat, 27 March 2010, 11:15:25: It's a conspiracy. He is the same guy from the typing contest video.
Title: Geek of the year.
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Sat, 27 March 2010, 13:49:15: Quote from: itlnstln;167373
Excuse me. I was the one that successfully derailed this thing.

Sorry, my mistake. I am just so use to Ripster making off-topic comments that I didn't really bother to look at the thread closer. Plus when I was viewing this thread yesterday I was in the library at my shcool doing some "research" for my big research project, so I kinda didn't have time to read the whole thread.
Title: Geek of the year.
Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 29 March 2010, 06:47:48: Quote from: ripster;167424
I'm the one that always stays on topic. ItlnStln is the one that goes off topic. We both have sick senses of humor.

By "sick," I think he means disgusting. Well, at least for me, anyway.

Sorry, vils, for derailing your thread.
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Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Mon, 29 March 2010, 13:59:47: Quote from: EverythingIBM;167235
Funny, I thought computers were more appealing... but I guess they both take your money.

Actually the computers are cheaper for me, all together I have probably spent only $200 for all my computing equipment. The computers also would require less maintenance than a women would, but that is beside the point. Women are beautiful creatures. Thank God for women...
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Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Mon, 29 March 2010, 14:07:44: "Not all the time" being the keywords there... meaning "most of the time." Then again, I can't talk, I have derailed a few threads before.
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Post by: kishy on Mon, 29 March 2010, 17:07:03: You're not a true Geekhacker unless you are capable of successfully derailing a thread without anyone being visibly annoyed about it.
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Post by: microsoft windows on Mon, 29 March 2010, 20:35:05: I can derail a thread and annoy people at the same time by using my time-tested trick:

(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=8781&stc=1&d=1269912879)
This computer's better than your newfangled junk.