I’m just reporting the data. Further funding will be required to work out the impact of the Internet non-nerd:nerd quotient versus the impact of any drop in annual sales of polyhedral dice 🙂
Some more data points for you:
The time between me hearing of Gary Gygax’s death and thinking “Oh no, this is going to trigger so many puns”: 13.5 seconds.
The time between my realisation and the first bad joke hitting my inbox: 238.3 seconds.
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Comment by Alastair on March 9, 2008
He will be missed.
I take it the steady decline pre-2000 is due to the dilution of the Internet with non-nerds?
Comment by Julian on March 9, 2008
I’m just reporting the data. Further funding will be required to work out the impact of the Internet non-nerd:nerd quotient versus the impact of any drop in annual sales of polyhedral dice 🙂
Some more data points for you:
The time between me hearing of Gary Gygax’s death and thinking “Oh no, this is going to trigger so many puns”: 13.5 seconds.
The time between my realisation and the first bad joke hitting my inbox: 238.3 seconds.