Oh, you most certainly qualify as an Uber Geek! Ain't no doubt there, sweetheart! <3
I have - through almost total random chance! - a wonderfully geeky license plate! When we got my car back in '15 and went to register it, it was almost a comedy of errors. Somehow multiple people including me, the salesman, the sales manager, and the finance clerk and possibly manager, failed to notice that the title that we gave them was not for my trade, but for my wife's car! That caused some delayed back and forth which was eventually taken care of, and I got my temporary title to take to the local DMV. My wife and I go down to get the title filed and permanent plates, and the DMV clerk pulls a license plate out of her drawer: NRD 512.
I almost had a nerdgasm. NRD and a number that was a power of 2! Computer geek uber cred! I told the clerk how happy I was and what the 512 represented.
And then their computer system crashed and we couldn't complete the transaction.
Russet and I went for lunch, came back in about an hour, as the clerk recommended. Unfortunately she couldn't hold the plate, she had to issue them in sequence, so all we could do was hope. We grab another ticket, we're eventually called to her window, and she smiles as she pulls out NRD 512!
I was, and still am, very happy! I was at a fast food place and had ordered online, and the teen who brought out my meal said 'Did you know that your license plate almost spells out 'nerd'? That's cool!' I acknowledged that and explained the 512 being 2^9th, which he thought was pretty awesome.
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Date: 2023-06-07 07:37 pm (UTC)Oh, you most certainly qualify as an Uber Geek! Ain't no doubt there, sweetheart! <3 I have - through almost total random chance! - a wonderfully geeky license plate! When we got my car back in '15 and went to register it, it was almost a comedy of errors. Somehow multiple people including me, the salesman, the sales manager, and the finance clerk and possibly manager, failed to notice that the title that we gave them was not for my trade, but for my wife's car! That caused some delayed back and forth which was eventually taken care of, and I got my temporary title to take to the local DMV. My wife and I go down to get the title filed and permanent plates, and the DMV clerk pulls a license plate out of her drawer: NRD 512. I almost had a nerdgasm. NRD and a number that was a power of 2! Computer geek uber cred! I told the clerk how happy I was and what the 512 represented. And then their computer system crashed and we couldn't complete the transaction. Russet and I went for lunch, came back in about an hour, as the clerk recommended. Unfortunately she couldn't hold the plate, she had to issue them in sequence, so all we could do was hope. We grab another ticket, we're eventually called to her window, and she smiles as she pulls out NRD 512! I was, and still am, very happy! I was at a fast food place and had ordered online, and the teen who brought out my meal said 'Did you know that your license plate almost spells out 'nerd'? That's cool!' I acknowledged that and explained the 512 being 2^9th, which he thought was pretty awesome.