Unintentional Geek Moment of the Day!

[D Man]

My speakers were going a little nutso and picking up some faint radio signals or feedback or something the other day, and I sat here dumbfounded for a bit looking all over my desk for where the sounds were coming from. I honestly thought to myself "Am I a Cylon?" I was glad no one else was around, and sorry I didn't think to say "It's in the frakkin' DESK!"

 

[John Clark]

Not mine (I believe I read it on here), but a personal fave was someone who walks up to the automatic doors at a grocery store and waves his hand at them using the Force to pry them open.

Just every day I'm at work. (The sensor is on the wall next to the door and remains locked if you don't wave at it). To get in from the outside, you have to wave an entry card at it, but going outside, it'll accept whatever you wave at it.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Not mine (I believe I read it on here), but a personal fave was someone who walks up to the automatic doors at a grocery store and waves his hand at them using the Force to pry them open.

When I do that, I expect nothing less than the doors to fly away from me off their hinges and embed themselves into the far wall at the back of the entrance lobby or shop with a thunderous crash, perhaps taking out one or two shop floor personnel with them. Sadly, it never works.

And pirates and ninjas and zombies.

And robots.

 

[TheGodBen]

I had an mp3 player installed in my car and I was trying it out for the first time yesterday, but I couldn't find the randomiser button. It wasn't until I questioned why it had a Ronald D Moore button that I finally found it.

 

[GNDN]

I had an mp3 player installed in my car and I was trying it out for the first time yesterday, but I couldn't find the randomiser button. It wasn't until I questioned why it had a Ronald D Moore button that I finally found it.

HAHA well my car is in reality a shape-shifter... at least that's what I'm led to believe by the prominent ODO on the dash (mmm... character naming inspiration, anyone?)

Not mine (I believe I read it on here), but a personal fave was someone who walks up to the automatic doors at a grocery store and waves his hand at them using the Force to pry them open.

When going through automatic doors, I always hum the theme from Get Smart.

Yah, I use the force on sliding doors pretty regularly, of course sometimes I feel compelled to throw both hands up in front of me Kevin Thomas Riley style!

Awesome examples, everybody... nothing particularly geeky about me today, but keep 'em coming!

 

[trekkiedane]

Not mine (I believe I read it on here), but a personal fave was someone who walks up to the automatic doors at a grocery store and waves his hand at them using the Force to pry them open.

^who hasn't done that at least once?

When they designed new trains for us back in the nineteen eighties they made the sensor for the automatic doors to every compartment not sensitive enough... everybody had to do the hand-jive to open the doors!

 

[sojourner]

HAHA well my car is in reality a shape-shifter... at least that's what I'm led to believe by the prominent ODO on the dash (mmm... character naming inspiration, anyone?)

Every car can shape shift at least once!

 

[B.J.]

My son's Cub Scout pack recently had their Blue & Gold banquet, and they had some Boy Scouts from the local OA lodge perform a ceremony for the boys that were receiving their Arrow of Light award. Since it was a serious ceremony, my wife an I were trying very hard to stifle our laughs since it seemed that all 3 of the boy scouts went to the Shatner school of acting. It didn't help that they were wearing red, blue and gold shirts as part of their Indian outfits!

 

[think]

Not mine (I believe I read it on here), but a personal fave was someone who walks up to the automatic doors at a grocery store and waves his hand at them using the Force to pry them open.

I too did this thing earlier today like three hours ago .,,

was in the ER where all the doors are auto or touch sensitive et, c.., but then there was the one door and as we were getting into the Get Smart tune humming the door was the one that would not open and then it opened but yes we even sing the get smart door openings thingy.,, lets see if i find the vid on youtube.,?

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMbQ-BeEr9U[/yt]

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Not a geek moment...more of a moron moment. Our public library has the automatic sliding doors. So i check out my books and go to the door. And the doors don't open. And i'm like, "Hello! The doors aren't opening" and then i see the door handle that says push. And I'm like, oh, ok, and i push the handle (not push OPEN mind you, push it like a button).....

and then realized it was a regular old door you have to PUSH OPEN.

I had forgotten the automatic sliding doors are only at one exit and not the other.

If there was a camera on me (and there probably was) i'll bet everyone had a good laugh.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.......

 

[Guartho]

For super-high-school nerd fun once a friend of mine and I put on Episode 1 in Spanish and then ad-libbed the dialog as if we were making an English audio track for a foreign film without knowing the script.

For awhile almost every exchange ended like this, "yadda yadda, BITCH!"

At the end of one exchange in the actual Spanish dialog, right after I had said "BITCH!" Watto said something that sounds like "BITCH-O!"

After we recovered from that the game got boring because nothing else was nearly that funny.

 

[TheBrew]

Back home, there was some construction going on the freeway that split the lanes with concrete barriers... they were pretty narrow, so it was like navigating a trench.

So of course I played "The Battle of Yavin" every time I drove through there. I also tended to go a bit faster when I did.

Okay, that wasn't unintentional, but it was still a geek moment.

 

[Guartho]

Not unintentional either, but when in dense city driving (especially in construction zones like that) I have been known to respond to my wife "You worry about the tower, I'll worry about the fighters."