Geek contest

[technomonkey]

So the other night, Jen and I were hanging out with most of the members of an a cappella group from CalTech, Fluid Dynamics.

For the rest of this story to have the impact it truly deserves, you need to take a moment to dwell on that. This is an a cappella group. From CalTech. This is the school upon which the movie "Real Genius" is based, and

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[darkveggie]

"All Hail! King of the Losers!"
If you remember this quote you can have my CIT geek badge. i'm movin' on up to USC.

Nope.

[technomonkey]

Sadly, I've got to admit this one is beyond me. It sounds vaguely Ash-like, particularly the evil version from Army of Darkness (Little goody TWO shoes!), but it's been quite some time since I've seen it so I can't say for sure.

When's the USC transition happening? Will there be auditions in your future? =)

Re: Nope.

[darkveggie]

It's from Age of Empires II, one of the taunts. Same era as Netscape Navigator (what a terrible browser). Great guess w/ AoD though - I'm sure that bad Ash could've ad-libbed it - and it's only a letter off on the acronym. no worries, you can be an honorary geek. =)

I graduate in June (barring any natural disasters), and if I'm feeling cocky might try for an a cappella group. Anyone but the Sirens. ;-)

[ext_99392]

Speaking of geekiness, Ditch Day is Tomorrow. Here's some photos from last year's... http://pr.caltech.edu/events/ditchday/2007/pictures/ Hopefully I won't burn the side of my face off this year!

And yes, LARPing is geekier than anything I've ever done, and I'm a hardcore computer scientist. Well done. :D

[ext_99392]

On second glance, those photos actually aren't all that interesting. Here's a captioned photolog of my adventure last year: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000370&l=e1dfd&id=1307760043