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Robert Scoble
Real-time contest. Who is doing the geekiest thing right now? Answer on FriendFeed here:
Following FF live feed :-) - Bo Stern
I'm unboxing and reboxing an Atari 2600 - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Converting some values on my HP-16C. - LogEx, Stealth Mode
Setting up signatures in Thunderbird. - John Fox
Trying to make a Google Latitude mashup - first attempt - Pon
Watching old Dr Who on streaming Netflix. - Michael Groner
Installing Windows 7 RTM in a virtual machine on my MacBook running Snow Leopard. - BeauGiles
watching a twit-vid of @amandapalmer singing 'creep' with a ukelele on one screen whilst reading blogs in the other - Rob Clark
running diff's on about 1.5 million rows of data and piping to another perl script for scrubbing - Erik Boles
Reading @techcrunch post on iPhone Apps and downloading them. :) - emon hassan
I am not geeky enough. - Robert Scoble from iPhone
watching old filmation cartoons on hulu. (more nerd than geek though) - Jason Phillips
I'm working on my own development project management tool in Emacs, doing some documentation and cleaning up Emacs Lisp Code. http://github.com/Nafai77... - Travis B. Hartwell
Erik wins so far! - Robert Scoble from iPhone
Sharing a mash-up of Rick Astley ("never gonna give you up") and Nine Inch Nails ("The hand that feeds") with all my friends! http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Alex Linebrink
Reading a Klingon blog - http://bologh.blogspot.com/ - Derrich
Q: How many of you are here on the East Coast? I'm in NY. - emon hassan
Remoting into a computer that's less than ten feet away, because i can! - Joshua Odneal
Watching old WWF Royal Rumble 1991 and playing club bing for prizes. - David R
Derrich wins hands down - Jodi Church
ironing work shirts - getting ready for work tomorrow *sigh* (ultra geeky ey!!) - Mr K
Streaming old SNES Batman games, playing TF2, and listening to Twit.tv - Carlton Prest
David R - Royal Rumble RAWKS!!! - Erik Boles
Watching how the Earth was formed and reading Louis Gray's blog post about FriendFeed. Why am I not getting drunk at a strip bar? - Stephen Pickering
Indexing mysql databases - Mike
I thought my answer was good, but Derrich kills it. - Michael Groner
watching buffy & angel, lmao - Brendon Wadey
Stephen: then you could be 'On FriendFeed at a strip bar'! - BeauGiles
Setting up my roommate's new Airport Express so he can use Airtunes, and potentially hack it to play Spotify over it as well. - Daniel Zarick
I'm trying to get someone to shoot me a Google Voice invite, just because the geek in me wants to try it. - Scott Voss
Dang, has Emacs and Lisp hacking lost its geek cred? :( - Travis B. Hartwell
Agreed. Derrich is a uber geek. - Fred
And with the iphone still geeking out! - Stephen Pickering
Google Voice no longer uses invites, just from google directly - David R
I am watching Fox News Channel. <--- WIN. - Rob Sterling
@Travis Lisp never loses geek cred. As far as Emacs goes, I'm a vi guy. :) - Michael Groner
TRAVIS -- not at all, I just like VIM over emacs, much more flexibility, but you be a geek my man, for shizzy - Erik Boles
getting hands on writing the Windows Sidebar gadget... - esaarem
Learning and trying Slinkset ,listening to cafe del mar 5 :-) - Johni Fisher
Editing pics on my iPhone and posting them to social sites.…plus checking FF - Herb Hernandez from iPhone
writing an iPhone app and listing to leo laporte - Jeremy Lane
Discussing reference audio and A/V surround-sound set-ups with your brother. - Akiva Moskovitz
Scoble: Whats the prize for this contest? - David R
David, you get punched in the throat with a deflated football. - Akiva Moskovitz
watching systm on how to build a combat robot - Sean Montgomery
@David R: FriendFeed fridge magnet, - Derrich
I'm watching Youtube videos on how to emulate Mac OS 9 on an Intel Mac, full screen so I can run old apps for old time's sake, while listening to Chris Pirillo talk about being a geek. - Justin Lowery
ill take that magnet - David R
watching Big Brother feeds. Jordan won HOH. Natalie still a nutjob. - geoff hines
rebooting PC after BSD - Phani Raj Kuchibhotla
Making a map of a fictional city (in a fictional country) while listening to JoCo - imperator3733
Installin Expression Bleand while listening to TWIT - Rohit Harshvardhan
@SEAN M. - Watch the one on kegbot, pure awesomeness. - Erik Boles
Playing Wow! - Bill Skoros
installin uber twitter beta 4 on my BB 8900 from Mexico City! cheers - Carlos
changing my friendfeed theme to custom - thegeniusfiles
@Justin check out 'Classic on Intel (COI)' - have had luck with it in the past when trying to play SimTower! - BeauGiles
EB: that's in the queue to be watched next...gotta start on step one of robot building - Sean Montgomery
researching why the USS Voyager's warp nacelles fold up - Justin Ruckman
first iteration done, more scrubbing to do, so more perl to write, maybe some awk, peace kids. - Erik Boles
@BeauGiles I was looking into SheepSaver. I'll have to take a look at COI also… - Justin Lowery
You're all *nuts* - it's Saturday night, and you (me too) are in front of the computer. <sigh> I'm reminded of my horrible high school art teacher who said artists never have "week-ends." Bastard. Damn fool was right. Substitute "geek" for "artist" and Bob's your uncle - or auntie, depending on how she swings. - Yule Heibel
watching the syfy channel (alien agent), while surfing the internet and playing the enchanted ds game - half a level to go and i've beaten the game! - ann glenn
Writing a fiction futuristic piece for my final in Tech in Society class. Cyborgs and robotic secretariats. My favorite line so far is when my main character tells his house bot to go screw a toaster. - Kenny Rayl
@BeauGiles Oh duh, same thing. Looks like I just finished downloading it. - Justin Lowery
This weekend geek: robot building...next weekend non geek: Vegas baby.... - Sean Montgomery
and i'm watching the very end of the Seahawks/Chargers pre-season game. - geoff hines
David: prize? My undying respect! - Robert Scoble from iPhone
Here you go, David R - http://bit.ly/a7eGF - Derrich
Watching Anime and talking about the MMA match on Facebook with my Blackberry 8900 through my access point. Only WPA encryption but have a long key and I live in the woods so I should be safe. That my friend is a geek combo :) - Tony from fftogo
Reconfiguring MythTV on my HTPC. - Edward Coffey
Reading FF instead of going to bed. Probably should be writing copy of some sort, but this is the time of night where I'll start to babble if I get sleepy. - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Installing apps for the new 3Gs - Denverken
Keeping up with this thread - Reyna Carlos
Babbling in writing is just pathetic. - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Checking Tweets while at GenCon - can'tget much geekier than that... - Dean Browell
Go Denverken! - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
I am watching Conan O'Brien on TiVo and Reading Scoble's FriendFeed. - Louis Gray
Reyna Carlos wins - Jeremy Lane
@Yule H. Having a lazy sunday afternoon over here in Australia - almost 3pm :) - BeauGiles
Trying to get inspired to design a web site for a client so I can get my geek on. Instead, sitting here reading Robert Scoble's FriendFeed! Much more entertaining... :) - Laura Zickus
digging deep into xml/css for start-up site... working on new web software that is like a next-generation friendfeed... grabbit.net - Fred Davis
Building out the infrastructure to setup 500 live web cams across the US to let people like me and you report crimes on the street in real time! (2-5 second delay). Someone starts a fight, cops are called within 10 seconds. 500 cameras are going up by December. 10,000 more in 2010. Yes. it's effing hard! - Adam Jackson
Using new de-soldering station to repair a bad MB to use in another dedicated system for climate prediction or seti@home...or some other grid computing project. - Jimmy
On the loosers side: having a drink of JW Gold and reading this at an strippers bar while I wait for the next performance! - Marco ILLESCAS from iPhone
Trying to get my LazyFeed /just/ right. - Shea from iPhone
...actually, grabbit is really much more than just a next-generation friendfeed... but since that's one of the closest things so far, the comparisons are inevitable... even if they don't do grabbit justice ;-) - Fred Davis
Did a brand new install of a family tree / genealogy web app, then imported the GEDCOM file from the previous install (which was an older version of the same app: http://www.phpgedview.net/ ). #ShinyNewVersion - Micah
Tweeting back to @IvankaTrump about her Thunder Cats movie request [http://twitter.com/mjcarra...] - Michael J. Carrasquillo
Watching Season 4.5 of BSG - lisa padilla
...usually I'm the geek of the week every week, so I hope someone is doing something nerdier than tweaking CSS style sheets! Especially on a saturday night! Sheesh! Good thing my GF (@lisapadilla) is a geeky girl, so she understands... in fact, she's nerding out on some grabbit stuff, too, right now ;-) - Fred Davis
My God, Doc Searls was right, we're all living in Scoble's butt! - Stephen Pickering
hehe, thx Mary Baum!, really love it so far - Denverken
Was smoking a cigar, tweeting from iPod touch and thinking about buddha. Does that count? Or should I have also been coding in PHP & reading slashdot? - Jerry Garcia
yes, Robert's friends all need to get a life! Ha! - Fred Davis
Reorganizing my iPhone apps, comparing Newstand to free RSS feeds, & researching/pondering the best way to archive my Twitter stream after reading Mashable article - Alexis from iPhone
Watching Android get ported onto an MID - Netbooknews
watching a bad movie with about 15 other people on IRC.. movie is "Frankenstein Island" - monkeystick
Lodging DMCA takedown against a scraper. - Sheila Scarborough
I guess biting the head off of a chicken doesn't count for geeky any longer? Early last century it would have been a huge draw in Kansas. - Jerry Garcia
I made a red necktie for my Brain (Pinky and the Brain) action figure. Now he's not only not naked, but looks even smarter. - Fred Jones
Going thru 104 comments on this thread. - Winston Teo
Playing with TwitPaint and editing a video - Outsanity
I was wondering why my Android phone couldn't find Jupiter on Skymap, when I knew exactly where it was - Kevin Marks
reading scoble FF - Ruchit Garg
hmm, watching two long running procs on vm's, running a couple rsyncs to a new terabyte server, monitoring FF/IRC/IM, farming on WoW, preparing two servers with NGINX and i'm always keeping an eye on munin/monit/screen sessions -- but that's not geeky really, just a normal weekend - bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Checking frienfeed at a wedding while everone else is dancing - Jim Goldstein from iPhone
Sean: thanks, I just wanted to see if something were happening on Twitter that wasn't here. - Robert Scoble from iPhone
I'm writing blog posts in gmail and saving them under the label "Posterous Drafts". And something something circuit board something thermal something capacitor. - Brett Kelly
zeroing the hard drive of an old G4 that's going to be recycled. - David Newman
Writing a paper about Artificial Intelligence in Expert systems :D - Yahya
playing with django framework - vinod
playing with Facebook FBML and pages (and hating it) - Keith - @tsudo
Just chilling with an ice cold Bud and listening to a live Jimmy Buffett concert online. And smiling reading all the posts. - lily taylor
Sitting at the keyboard in my jammies and reading FF. - Technogran
reading FF & shooting my duck hunt background (just 'cause); listening to music on blip.fm; picking out fall fashion (posting to delicio.us/polyvore/blogspot...) & texting my son. Not sure what I would do w/out connection =) - Charl Lee
Listening to Bob Seger, Janis Joplin and The Who on vinyl. Guess that would be contra geek? - John Nissim
checking out laptops on pc mag. # - Francisco
trying to set-up Streamy (the "new Friendfeed') - Bill Powell
Reading friendfeed on one monitor with 50 tabs open and watching the Second Life Citizen's Convention live music stream in Second Life on the other monitor. - SuezanneC Baskerville
LOl @Stephen P. - Francisco
to the wedding geek: sounds like sth. I'd be doing. lol - Francisco
@Franc. I'm still reading this thread... Uber geek LOL - Jim Goldstein from iPhone
Playing with Google Wave - Ahsan Ali
Upgrading my desktop computer to Windows 7 - RobinDotNet
Setting up a Linux server and giving it a static IP address, manually assigned DNS server settings, restarting the networking stack, and pinging the router on my local network all via the command line in the Terminal. Also doing a traceroute from this Linux server inside a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro to my website at www.thebrentcameron.com to see how many hops it takes and the time it takes for each of those hops. So do I win or what? - Brent Cameron
My idea of optimizing Firefox is by uninstalling it. - Alex Knight
running macros on my G15 to bulk process 500 kids soccer pictures, while browsing friendfeed, listening to techno on headphones while my son watches star wars episode IV - Robert Higgins
Making my 4th LEGO city model of the day while watching 2 screens of FriendFeed (main feed + this thread). My wife is on Facebook on our hackint0shed netwbook while my 3 year old daughter plays games on the iPhone - Johnny Worthington
Just got my new iPhone 3GS. Recorded video and uploaded to youtube http://youtube.com/bryansays then used qik app to upload video as well http://qik.com/bryansays then took a pic and uploaded to my blog via posterous. :) - BRҰANSAҰS from iPhone
Watching Conan the Barbarian, quoting far too much of it, analyzing too much of it altogether (like did they get all of the out of work Star Trek (original show) musicians together to do the score? It's way too similar.) - Lucretia Pruitt
Coding an iPhone application which connects to Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, and fetches RSS feeds off the web :) - Fahim
Taking some downtime from the SLCC as an opportunity to work on writing for my blog. - Tim Maly
Figuring out if I can get android running on a dell axim. - Jim Connolly
Scampering between sites/browser-tabs like a headless chicken is hardly geeky but that's what I've been doing this Sunday morning. Google Reader, Friendfeed, Facebook, Twitter, Social Median, Lazy Feed, et. al. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Setting my Ruby on Rails environment up on my new Windows Laptop. I know it's the easiest platform to do it on, with InstantRails, but might install it on Linux, just for the crack :) And checking out the Mosso plans. - Steve Farnworth
running a twitter experiment #chromeexperiment to see if I could actually replace firefox with chrome. - Rohit
Writing a custom extension module for vTiger CRM which combines data from two other modules and working on my custom Layout Management & Authentication Libraries for the CodeIgniter MVC framework which I intend to release as open source when complete. - Usman Bashir
Umm, searching for iPhone formatted porn. Does that count as geeky? - Keith Bennett from BuddyFeed
Making a few more custom buttons for firefox. - April Russo (app103)
Answering stupid real-time contests on friendfeed. - Ben Pashkoff from twhirl
fighting the headache with some reader and friendfeed...and maybe twitter...maybe not - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Configuring virtual server/machines and network - for home use... - Jemm from fftogo
Drinking my morning coffee..... - Roberto Bonini
it's unlikely to be me - checking friendfeed while things compile (contributing to a linux distro this week), reading up on vtiger (coincidence? someone is vtigering above), and wondering what's for lunch - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Reading Robert's friendfeed updates IS the geekiest thing one can do ^^ - Paul Papadimitriou from iPhone
And Coffee is the spring of all good ideas :) So it IS geeky :) - Roberto Bonini
I'm out on this one. Relaxing 'computer off' Sunday planned with my wife :) - Charlie Anzman
When this was posted? Sleeping. Hows that for geeky? - DGentry
Joelle: It has to be coincidence what else can it be. :) - Usman Bashir
Trying to use lynx to browse the web, most sites fail - Aaman (Clone of FF)
reading all the comments above;p - ciw
Editing videos from my holiday - not geeky enough - and 8 hours late for this post! - Martin Bryant
We'll, when this was posted I was cutting some zzzs. Now I'm coding the privacy component for BuddyPress--a nice relaxing activity for a Sunday morning. Hum? - Jeff Sayre
Compressing and archiving a load of files on JungleDisk, trying to convert a Drupal module intended for use with the Twitter OAuth API to work with FriendFeed, and drafting the OpenStream specification... - Tyson Key
I'm organizing CloneFeed/OpenFF, the open source alternative to FF. Early stages though. - Jason Huebel from iPhone
Geeky/cultural - going through my favorite Woodstock performances on blip.fm. - JCunwired
....multi-tasking between sourcing UI icons for a new app, scanning FF live feed, coding PHP, browsing Seesmic and now commenting on a thread where i appear not to be geekiest person here on a Sunday. Oh, and now i have too many tabs open in firefox, so i'm using Safari as a fill-in. - Matthew Ogston
everyon'es working around me and im on friendfeed. lol - nivcalderon
Browsing Google Reader, Friendfeed best of day, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Social Median, Twine while copying a video off my Flip & uploading to Viddler... and on my iPhone: getting the Kindle & audible format of a @TedDekker book (Showdown) to take along on my kayaking trip down the Juniata river this afternoon. In the background, Mythbusters is busy figuring out how the Hindenburg blew up. - Courtney Engle
ohhhh.. i forgot: downloading my entire list of domains for backup before moving servers. Add FTP to the list. and drinking freshly ground coffee in my french press travel mug. The coffee was purchased from a Guatemalan farmer my sister met while there. - Courtney Engle
A couple of people have mentioned coffee. I just had my tea (I'm not from England). I think that may be even more geeky than drinking coffee! - Jeff Sayre
Playing Super Mario Bros. on NES. - Ashish
I'm singing a song about robots with my one year old daughter ... "Robot parade... Robot parade .... Robots obey what the children say!" - Trent Hamm from iPod
Selecting photos + editing videos from the U2 360° Tour - I went to see last nite! Every geek will love the high-tech specs of the tour: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - stunning visuals! - Frank Da Silva
Reading FriendFeed to see what geeky things everyone is doing - Cathleen Rittereiser
Backing my computer up to my home network, while using regedit and preparing to install Win7. Oh +Twitter and FriendFeed are running in the background :P - Aram Zucker-Scharff from twhirl
I'm backing up The Internet. And storing it in the cloud. - Micah
Micah +1!. Better than me - sister in law just dropped of HP laptop with Vista and said "it's slower now." so I get to play with the cleaning of spyware and the uninstalling of a billion little apps that HP feels are so necessary that they should be part of startup just to ensure that it takes a full 5-10 minutes before you can use the machine. But I'm not bitter. - Michael Pardee
I'm commenting on this post. Can life get more "geeky?" - Jimmy Walker
Configuring a Sonicwall router. - Norm McKenzie
Writing code in Scala. - Joey Gibson
I'm crocheting but I don't think that counts. I'm ripping out am old unfinished to use the yarn in a new project. Next up: a slouchy beret using DPNs then circular knitting needles. - Zulema⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠❤ from iPhone
I am redesigning some code for my intelligent search engine which I have been working on for over 12 years now! http://www.cleversearchengine.com - Benjy Felsham
reading friendfeed and catching up on my rss feed on google reader. - Fuad Arshad
OK - and now - in English! WOW - I only "get" about a third of the comments! feeling very ungeeky! - Robyn Hawk
I am wasting my time by writing comments on FF .. it's slightly after midnight in Central Europe now. Shower and bed next! - Jan Horna
Ditched my wife at the airport to get free wifi. I'm flying virgin she's flying southwest. You snooze you lose LOL - Jim Goldstein
Trying to decide about paying for Tweet Spinner . . . - MikeEllsworth
Writing custom PHP code that will pull data from a MySQL database to present a technical class schedule in WordPress. - Michael Carnell
Ripping Hogan's Hereos DVDs to make H.264 files for later playing on Apple TV. It's good to carry on in comments here as it shows FF that there is a continuing need and use of the FF ways of doing things. If this was on Facebook, I could not send a comment to Robert unless he friended me. Things are just so much tighter and efficient here. - Keith Rowland
About the only other thing we could ask for in comments, is comments on comments. - Keith Rowland
playing Ikariam and WoW while on FF and watching Nature - Heza, soon to be employed
Using my phone to Skype, Friendfeeding on a netbook, playing sudoku on my ipod while watching Pulp Fiction. - MV3B Incorrigible of FF
Converting/Creating Direct Response Television Ads to Direct Response Web Video and distribution http://www.directresponsetelev... closing deals before the site is even populated. - Jim Peake
I think Robert should announce the winners of the contest now:) - Aaman (Clone of FF)
Is there anything geekier than organizing a tech conference? Yes, organizing a science+tech conference: http://scienceblogs.com/clock... - Bora Zivkovic
following Scobleizer is pretty geeky - Shari Weiss
working on new version of picollator.com - Irina Yakhneeva
Installing IE8. - Rob Schieber
Reading on FF instead of working... - DAL
compiling Erlang - Brian Hendrickson
_as if_ you can beat me :-) - Brian Hendrickson
Hey Chris - How are your Twitter ads going? Would be interested in the feedback you are getting. - Jim Connolly
OSgrid - paniaguai