Geek off!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Some of us know too much about certain odd things. Whether we learn this info through our jobs or our hobbies and interests doesn't matter. I'm talking about facts that really aren't necessary to our daily lives, but that we will carry to our graves anyway.

Show your geek pride by posting those grains of esoterica here. I'll start with a few...

I know chunks of the Dewey Decimal system. Human Body is 610-620. Dinosaurs are 567.9. American History, 973. It's good for me to know, lame for anyone else.

The movie "Wayne's World" cost $14 million to make. In its first weekend it made $18 million. It was released on Feb 14th, 1992.

A-Wings are the fastest of the Wing series in short distances. They are not capable of lightspeed and carry one pilot, making them lightweight. Remember the guy that gets hit and goes kamakazi into a Star Destroyer? (how could you not? ) He was flying an A-Wing. B-Wings have heavy firepower, a 4 man crew, and can do lightspeed - as a result they are the slowest of the Wings. Y-Wings balance speed and firepower, with a 2 man crew. The X-Wings, however, are the most maneuverable, hence their large role in the Death Star trenches.

If I got any of that wrong I hope iSm will forgive me...it's been years since I've read my SW vehicles book.

[mousepod]

I feel like I'm such a geek because I can't differentiate between important information and esoterica. In my mind, everything is connected. A conversation about Peter Pan can logically mutate into a conversation about Einsturzende Neubauten in 5 minutes. The more you know, the more you see the connections...

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by mousepod

I feel like I'm such a geek because I can't differentiate between important information and esoterica. In my mind, everything is connected. A conversation about Peter Pan can logically mutate into a conversation about Einsturzende Neubauten in 5 minutes. The more you know, the more you see the connections...

Preach it, Brother!

I think I only knowledge I have is esoteric.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Preach it, Brother!

I think I only knowledge I have is esoteric.

Well?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Fibre Channel is a protocol designed to package and transport SCSI commands in a switched network environment across fiber optic cables.

"Fibre" Channel is the correct spelling.

[€uroMeinke]

I consider NPR and other public radio as the source of all knowledge.

But aside from that silver microfilm masters can last upwards of 100 year if properly stored in tan environement with temperature ranges between 68-72 degreees and a relative humidity between 40-60%.

[Ponine]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

I consider NPR and other public radio as the source of all knowledge.

But aside from that silver microfilm masters can last upwards of 100 year if properly stored in tan environement with temperature ranges between 68-72 degreees and a relative humidity between 40-60%.

I suddenly want to know what you do for a living.

A gummy bear is the same size as a kangaroo joey when it crawls into the mothers pouch.
A parrot can break an almond in a shell, but a gang of children jumping on it, generally cannot.
A bicycle tire tube, cut once so as not a circle anymore, Is roughly the same length as a giraffe tounge.

Bob's Big Boys were/are owned by JW Marriot, they turned them into Allie's or BJ's depending what part of the southwest they were in. Most all of them closed.
Red sneakers were hard to find when Allie's opened. Reebok had just discontinued them.

<snide voice on> Teachers, though they teach children to read, generally do not read themselves, and also generally cannot fathom percentages. <snide voice off>

If you mix muffins too much, the berries will sink.
Bloomed chocolate, with the white haze on it?, is caused by fat rising to the surface. The chocolate got too hot, or too cold, and too fast. It doesnt hurt you.
Caramel and fudge are essentially the same. (With chocolate added.)
Caramel cooks to 215, fudge to 225. 224 for dark fudge.

I should stop now

[Claire]

Hey now now.....I'm a teacher who reads incessantly...but I'm sure you're talking about a certain teacher in particular, Ponine. And fractions....gotta say I didn't learn them in school. I learned them at Nordstrom during sales. And that's how I've taught fractions to my old two--in the real world, usually involving pizza. The schools teach fractions in a crap way.

Hhhmmm.....my useless knowledge....comes from Tiger Beat and Bop and 16 circa 1984.

Okay. Here's the cast of The Outsiders:

C. Thomas Howell was Pony Boy Curtis (the C stands for Christopher...named after his dad who was a successful stunt man in the movies. Tommy Howell's first movie was E.T. He was handpicked off the set....his dad was working on E.T.....by Steven Spielberg. He played one of the older brothers friends--was in the poker scene at the beginning and then on the bikes later on.)
Rob Lowe was Soda Pop
Patrick Swayze was Darry
Leif Garrett was.....Bob? Can't remember, but he died.
Diane Lane was Sherry (Cherry) Valance
Matt Dillon was Dallas
Ralph Macchio was Johnny
Tom Cruise was Steve
Emilio Estevez was Two Bit (love the Mickey shirt!)
Darren Dalton was Randy the Soc

I jonesed for all these guys at one point or another in my adolescence. I used to have a mental imdb of every single freaking movie all of them have been in, together and separately. For example, Tommy Howell and Patrick Swayze were in Grandview USA together (Jennifer Jason Leigh was in that and The Hitcher with Tommy Howell). They were also in Red Dawn, with Darren Dalton and Charlie Sheen, Emilio's brother. And Patrick Swayze was in Dirty Dancing with Jennifer Grey who was in Red Dawn. Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze were also in Youngblood together. And Rob Lowe and Jennifer Grey were in a crappy French Cinderella movie that I watched FAR too many times in high school.

Man...if I morphed into the random people in the John Hughes movies or any of the John Cusack movies.....this could go on all day.

And any mistakes are because of my aged brain.

[Not Afraid]

Well what? I can't even begin to compile information.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Well what? I can't even begin to compile information.

Just pick one thing at a time. Like this.

The real chemical used for the drug Ecstacy is MDMA (I've forgotten what it stands for, and I'm not cheating in this thread). MDMA is supposed to last about 6 hours and have very little in the way of "hangover". What people usually end up getting is really MDA, which lasts only about half the time, and is harder on the body, but cheaper to make. Since it comes in a pill or powder form, they can be made with anything, and cutting the drug with all kinds of other stuff is rampant. Hence some "Ecstacy related deaths" are actually due to other drugs present in the pills.

Both MDMA and MDA were originally tested for use in depression therapies, as a "super-prozac". They were also used as appetite suppressants.