What are some of the geekiest things you own?
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What are some of the geekiest things you own?
What are some of the geekiest (nerdiest?) things you own?
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I'm not really a collector per se; I have a couple of meteorite fragment but they were gifted to me. I'd have to say the "geekiest" things I own are up my left arm...
First off, my daughter and I started playing Resident Evil 4 on the Gamecube back in 2010 when she was 5. We finished the game just after her 6th birthday; so many good memories with that. RE4 is the most playable game ever, we were entertained for years with all the extra unlocked from completing it. Last year for her 18th birthday, we bought the new remake for the Xbox. A week later, I got a tattoo of the "Los Illuminados" (The Enlightened Ones) symbol seen throughout the game. She came with me to watch me getting it done.
The saga and memories continue....
And the other most geekiest thing... If you're wondering what that is just above my tattoo, it's the magnetometer boom from the second one. Voyager 1 or 2 (take your pick); it's a tribute to my father who got me into astronomy, and who died suddenly on August 28, 1977; right between the launches of Voyagers 2 and 1. He would have been fascinated with all of their discoveries; I wish we could have shared all that.
I guess my memories and life experiences make me a geek So be it; I'm happy and content with who I am!
Thanks Chich and all the best,
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Plan A was to use a servo to rotate a pointer against a scale but that was hard to see and it wasn't geeky enough!
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An old car thats a reincarnation of an even older car
Mine is actually in mint condition with low miles though and stored in a climate controlled garage, adding nicely to the fullon obbsessive nerdom that is Me...
There is more but there may be some here not fully ready to handle the whole Nerd truth.
So for them we spot here...
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Pretty much all of my geeky things I had went with the downsizing before the move...
The only culture I have is from yogurt
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Man... That's some icky-tasting stuff!
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cameras : asi 1600mm-c/asi1600mm-c,asi120mc,prostar lp guidecam, nikkon d60, sony a7,asi 290 mm
mounts : eq6 pro/eq8/mesu 200 v2
filters : 2'' astronomik lp/badder lrgb h-a,sII,oIII,h-b,Baader Solar Continuum, chroma 3nm ha,sii,oiii,nii,rgb,lowglow,uv/ir,Thousand Oaks Solar Filter,1.25'' #47 violet,pro planet 742 ir,pro planet 807 ir,pro planet 642 bp ir.
extras : skywatcher f4 aplanatic cc, Baader MPCC MKIII Coma Corrector,Orion Field Flattener,zwo 1.25''adc.starlight maxi 2" 9x filter wheel,tele vue 2x barlow .
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OOOOHHHH! Magic Orb!
If you print off some stickers of sun spots you could have Arron (starhugger) avatar.
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I was calling it Happy Fun Ball, but Magic Orb is good.
Man... That's some icky-tasting stuff!
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Moon phase, moon rise, transit, set.
Sun rise and set.
Current tide, high and low.
Distance traveled, a bazillion fitness functions.
And of course time, GMT, alarms...
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So that the data is equally available when I'm away from home, I have a task schedule to run another script to copy it to a Dropbox sync folder.
Lots of nice Excel dinks used to show the data in different ways, and Macros (of course) to make things happen.
I've also got a piece of pallasite that I'm fond of
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