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Top 11 Things Geeks Did on New Year's Eve

bbspot.com — Stayed up for 24 hours to wish all their online friends in different time zones a Happy New Year at the appropriate hour.

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  • jsaxton86, on 10/12/2007, -4/+454My New Year's Resolution: 1600x1200.
  • dpchi, on 10/12/2007, -9/+106skip the site, read the comments...

    11. Kissed their WoW avatar at midnight.
    10. Watched the BIOS date change years.
    9. Hoped for a Y2K+7 bug.
    8. Too busy playing nethack to notice.
    7. Listened to Auld Lang Syne on their iPod.
    6. Popped open a bottle of caffeinated champagne.
    5. Updated their New Year's Resolution database to reflect the passing year.
    4. Defragmented their hard drives.
    3. Stayed up for 24 hours to wish all their online friends in different time zones a Happy New Year at the appropriate hour.
    2. Had to come in to work to upgrade and reboot servers all night long.
    1. Nothing. Real Klingons don't celebrate puny holidays like New Year's Eve.
  • Satanael, on 10/12/2007, -2/+69I certainly feel sorry for that chicken...
    I hear the Asian kind may carry SARS...
  • mousy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+65Did you talk bad syntax to her?
  • PDelahanty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+61"3. Stayed up for 24 hours to wish all their online friends in different time zones a Happy New Year at the appropriate hour."

    Yeah, as if they had 24 friends...
  • PimpinOnWelfare, on 10/12/2007, -12/+69Wheres the love for 1440x900??
  • edzieba, on 10/12/2007, -10/+601920x1200. WUXGA, bitches!
  • SirNoobius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+49I actually formated
    clean start for the new year
  • uzytkownik, on 10/12/2007, -5/+50Real geeks use filesystems which do not need defragmentation ;)
  • PeTeRZz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+424. Defragmented their hard drives.

    Guilty :(
  • skotski, on 10/12/2007, -4/+36sorry flowardnut, your sister doesn't count.
  • razrielle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28turned back my clock to 12/31/1999 to experience y2k again
  • beelz, on 10/12/2007, -9/+37"Nothing. Real Klingons don't celebrate puny holidays like New Year's Eve."

    tlhIngan maH!
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Well I logged into my girlfriend's server.... three times.
  • skotski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23nice

    was she aware of the login, or was it the usual virtual upload most geeks are familliar with?
  • shelbygt33, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25I did this on New Year's Day... Whew! Glad I'm not a nerd!
  • haggie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23#12: Checked "leave mom January rent check" off to do list...

    #13: Copy and pasted "Lose virginity" from 2006 resolution list to 2007 resolution list.
  • airmann90, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22I had a LAN party...
  • gruisinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I live in the Central time zone, so the geekiest thing I did at midnight was check to see the new woot item.
  • ModernTenshi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19My friends played with my Wii.
  • skotski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Always a good idea to do a complete virus scan before that kind of thing.
  • Shawnosaurus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2012. Spanked it to "Girls Gone Wild: New Years Eve" footage downloaded via torrent.
  • treyd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15My LAN got canceled. Someone stole our tables. Since when do people steal tables?
  • Yazoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+131.Try to make the first thread in 2007 at your favorite forum.
  • ashwinmudigonda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Paid my respects to the Ce-133 atom for its stupid contribution to the second.
  • squeevey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Deleted my myspace? I guess that's not terribly geeky. Although I did do it from my mobile.
  • Shizlanski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12You know, I normally agree if its just some blog spam or whatever, but if someone came up with these they deserve the traffic.
  • ozid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I got drunk and puked on my friends carpet. :(

    And then in the backseat of my car...

    Oh yeah and on top of their next door neighbors mini house statue.

    whoops.
  • cdawzrd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Are you my old CS teacher? you suck at Java!
  • ozid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Yeah... they are persian. Pitty.

    By the way... making up drinks around a catchy name you happen to think of... not a good idea.

    I am still hanging over as I type this thanks to the "upside-down ethiopian".
  • sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Your mom lets me work it off now. That was her resolution.

    Giggity giggity.
  • CapeKid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Wished everyone a happy 11111010111
  • Satanael, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8This hit a little close to home...
    Ouch...
  • andreo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I would think a real geek would schedule the defrag as a task...

    Funny thing about number 2 though. My GF asked if I had to go into work to take care of any of the servers because of the new year. My reply: Nah, that's only once every 100 years...
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I finally got Beryl working. Spinning the cube at midnight = best New Years ever.
  • sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Do what I do, tell them you were demoniacally possessed until you realized your friend was a holy man, freeing you from the grasps of the devil himself on New Years. This only works if his neighbors are Catholic, however.
  • derek20cali, on 10/12/2007, -4/+101. Stayed in the basement coding, OR
    2. Went to a lan party (aka circlejerk)
  • Jarodd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6And then again...you can script that ;)
  • Schnep97, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@guardsman85

    I hope its not an LCD.
  • guardsman85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Sadly, I too am guilty of formatting one of my computers on New Years Day... {expletive deleted}

    /smacks head on screen

  • lax767, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I drove 8 hours to pick up a macbook pro that i bought off of craigslist
  • sotjian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I, or my dwarf hunter, was sitting just outside of Ironforge watching the fireworks as midnight rollout in. To make it worse, I have screen shots.

    2007 looks like it's going to be just as much fun as 2006 was.
    I know it. I'm a loser.
  • sirloin, on 10/12/2007, -10/+15Mines 12000x10000
    my icons are smaller than a pixel
    i had to get a sharper mouse pointer just to click them
    I use a microfiche reader to read the text.
    all this on a badass 13" monochrome monitor.
    (my addition to the lame copycat jokes)
  • gpcprog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Really nice.
    Though I must say for a real geek a new year would be, when the unix time stamp has 25 zeroes at the end (in hex of course)
  • merdiesel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Downloaded like crazy without it affecting my ratio! thanks to...now you didn't think i was going say the site did you. :)
  • sdwilly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Stayed in with the wife and watched the Twilight Zone Marathon on Sci-fi..

  • delta013, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Stayed up for 24 hours to wish all their online friends in different time zones a Happy New Year at the appropriate hour."

    Bah. A real geeks would write a script to do that so they could do something else.
  • Durinthal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4LAN party here.
  • dsignr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I almost snorted my green tea as I read that comment.
  • xWillx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@ xyzunit were you aware of the reply button
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