Uber Geek Halloween costume - I need ideas! - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

BentNotTwisted · 10-24-2003, 02:04 PM

I voluntered to dress up on Halloween for a costume contest at work. A group of us are going to enter a costume contest as geeks through the decades. The head of our department is going to dress up as a 50s/60s geek. Someone else is dressing up as an 80s geek. We even have one guy dressing up as the Blue Screen of Death.

I, stupidly, volunteered to dress up as an Uber Geek. Two problems: First, I'm not sure what an Uber Geek is. Second, I need some ideas for a costume that will have others at the costume contest understand the point I am trying to get across. Our group will have a spokesperson who will explain what each of us are, but our group will be judged by a popular vote of those attending, so my costume must be basically understood.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Pragma · 10-24-2003, 02:09 PM

Try to get as many technological items hanging off you as possible.

Calculators, watches, even just random wires plugged into other parts of the costume. Bonus points if you can fasten together a VR headset and a "wearable" laptop -- (Gargoyle, Snow Crash style).

The basic premise that I'm imagining is overkill. Overkill to the point of humour. Oh, and by the way, you'll be a potted tree while in costume. Make sure you've gone to the bathroom recently before donning it, as with that much shit on, you won't be moving anywhere.

Rubyee · 10-24-2003, 03:43 PM

Let's see. Toilet paper stuck to your shoe, or coming out the back of your pant leg. Rainbow suspenders- which could be used to hold a laptop on. Shiny, shiny black shoes. Or, really ugly high top tennis shoes. Draw some zits on your face, and put a lot of vegetable oil in your hair so it looks greasy. Also, draw some dark circles under your eyes so that it looks like you were on the computer all night playing Everquest. And a name tag! I always associate nametags with geeks. Well, not always, but most of the time. And put an ink stain in your shirt pocket. For added effect, if you have any pens or pencils on your person, chew the ends of them like crazy- it's the little things that count. Then, you should make a patch that says something like "My other car is a Segway."

sailor · 10-24-2003, 04:57 PM

Lots and lots of gadgets. Pragma said it pretty well. Maybe a Linux t-shirt... Things like that. Go as overboard on the technical (and especially obscure) gadgets as you can.

tikki · 10-24-2003, 05:18 PM

That help?

Clewd · 10-24-2003, 07:15 PM

A while back on one of IBM's "helping businesses do business" commercials they had a gadget called the universal business adapter which was essential a giant mass of different sockets and ports.

You can probably change the idea a bit and do something like: incorporate the thing into your hair and say that it lets you interface with any piece technology directly via your brain.

Another possibility is carrying around a mouse in a holster and having a keyboard strapped to your back.

Hope that helps.

Hope that helps

omega2K4 · 10-24-2003, 09:45 PM

Three words: Dungeons And Dragons

clavus · 10-24-2003, 11:01 PM

Put a pocket protector on your pocket protector

nukeu666 · 10-25-2003, 12:48 AM

dress like dilbert

Reese · 10-25-2003, 12:54 AM

Watch the movie hackers and go as jonny lee millers character when he's dressed in that red leather thingy... That's an uber geek... lmao It might be good to add a few gadgets clipped to it...

oh I like the dilbert idea... Get your tie standing up and you're set...

TheBrit · 10-25-2003, 08:39 AM

Wear a shirt, and put about as many pens as you can in the top pocket.

krwlz · 10-25-2003, 03:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by omega2K4
Three words: Dungeons And Dragons

C'mon man, easy now!! Not all D&D players are geeks!

BentNotTwisted · 10-25-2003, 08:03 PM

Excellent suggestions. I have a decent goatee and wouldn't mind doing some trimming on it if it would add to the effect. Things are not looking quite as desperate. Thank you all for your help. I'll post a pic if there's a decent one available.

Church · 10-25-2003, 08:55 PM

I still think you should go Borg. That's the uberest geekiest thing I've ever seen.

Jam · 10-25-2003, 08:59 PM

uber geek.. u need spikey hair and glasses... the ones with the big thick black frames...

wear a teeshirt with some logo on it for microsoft or redat linux or something...

or even better a Counter Strike shirt...

just make one with an iron on thing and write on it underneath that " 1 pwn j00!!! "

also... you will need to be afraid of girls..

Jam · 10-25-2003, 09:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by krwlz
C'mon man, easy now!! Not all D&D players are geeks!

i find that hard to believe

gwr_gwir · 10-27-2003, 11:37 AM

you could dress up as Largo, of Megatokyo, and run around screaming in l33+ about how "resistance is futile"...

Jam · 10-27-2003, 06:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by gwr_gwir
you could dress up as Largo, of Megatokyo, and run around screaming in l33+ about how "resistance is futile"...

how can u scream in leet? leet is just using number to represent letters its childish but it sounds the same

f0|2 3x4mp13 1f y0u (4/\/ r34|) 7h15 17 50un|)5 /\/0|2m41

xjumper84 · 10-28-2003, 12:20 AM

be a pimp.. with computar parts

rockogre · 10-28-2003, 05:52 AM

Find a slide rule, a big, shiny one with a holster, and attempt to convert everyone you meet into being a slide rule user. Only a Uber geek would be that retro.

ratbastid · 10-28-2003, 06:22 AM

You're going as the uber-geek? That's easy!

Dress up as Linus Torvalds!

10-24-2003, 02:04 PM	#1 (permalink)
BentNotTwisted Optimistic Skeptic Location: Midway between a Beehive and Centennial	Uber Geek Halloween costume - I need ideas! I voluntered to dress up on Halloween for a costume contest at work. A group of us are going to enter a costume contest as geeks through the decades. The head of our department is going to dress up as a 50s/60s geek. Someone else is dressing up as an 80s geek. We even have one guy dressing up as the Blue Screen of Death. I, stupidly, volunteered to dress up as an Uber Geek. Two problems: First, I'm not sure what an Uber Geek is. Second, I need some ideas for a costume that will have others at the costume contest understand the point I am trying to get across. Our group will have a spokesperson who will explain what each of us are, but our group will be judged by a popular vote of those attending, so my costume must be basically understood. Any suggestions would be appreciated. __________________ IS THAT IT ???!!! Do you even know what 'it' is? When the last man dies for just words that he said... We Shall Be Free

10-24-2003, 02:09 PM	#2 (permalink)
Pragma I am Winter Born Location: Alexandria, VA	Try to get as many technological items hanging off you as possible. Calculators, watches, even just random wires plugged into other parts of the costume. Bonus points if you can fasten together a VR headset and a "wearable" laptop -- (Gargoyle, Snow Crash style). The basic premise that I'm imagining is overkill. Overkill to the point of humour. Oh, and by the way, you'll be a potted tree while in costume. Make sure you've gone to the bathroom recently before donning it, as with that much shit on, you won't be moving anywhere. __________________ Eat antimatter, Posleen-boy!

10-24-2003, 03:43 PM	#3 (permalink)
Rubyee I'm baaaaack!	Let's see. Toilet paper stuck to your shoe, or coming out the back of your pant leg. Rainbow suspenders- which could be used to hold a laptop on. Shiny, shiny black shoes. Or, really ugly high top tennis shoes. Draw some zits on your face, and put a lot of vegetable oil in your hair so it looks greasy. Also, draw some dark circles under your eyes so that it looks like you were on the computer all night playing Everquest. And a name tag! I always associate nametags with geeks. Well, not always, but most of the time. And put an ink stain in your shirt pocket. For added effect, if you have any pens or pencils on your person, chew the ends of them like crazy- it's the little things that count. Then, you should make a patch that says something like "My other car is a Segway." __________________ You don't know from fun.

10-24-2003, 04:57 PM	#4 (permalink)
sailor beauty in the breakdown Location: Chapel Hill, NC	Lots and lots of gadgets. Pragma said it pretty well. Maybe a Linux t-shirt... Things like that. Go as overboard on the technical (and especially obscure) gadgets as you can. __________________ "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." --Plato

10-24-2003, 05:18 PM	#5 (permalink)
tikki Justified Location: West Lafayette, IN	That help? __________________ Take notice. Take interest. Take me with you.

10-24-2003, 07:15 PM	#6 (permalink)
Clewd Upright Location: Under the warm California sun	A while back on one of IBM's "helping businesses do business" commercials they had a gadget called the universal business adapter which was essential a giant mass of different sockets and ports. You can probably change the idea a bit and do something like: incorporate the thing into your hair and say that it lets you interface with any piece technology directly via your brain. Another possibility is carrying around a mouse in a holster and having a keyboard strapped to your back. Hope that helps. Hope that helps __________________ LiuGuberlorious

10-24-2003, 09:45 PM	#7 (permalink)
omega2K4 Natalie Portman is sexy. Location: The Outer Rim	Three words: Dungeons And Dragons __________________ "While the State exists there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State." - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."- Karl Marx

10-24-2003, 11:01 PM	#8 (permalink)
clavus pow! Location: NorCal	Put a pocket protector on your pocket protector __________________ Ass, gas or grass. Nobody rides for free.

10-25-2003, 12:48 AM	#9 (permalink)
nukeu666 Junkie Location: India	dress like dilbert __________________ Why did the Comp. Engineer get X-mas and Halloween mixed up? Because Oct(31) == Dec(25)

10-25-2003, 12:54 AM	#10 (permalink)
Reese Delicious	Watch the movie hackers and go as jonny lee millers character when he's dressed in that red leather thingy... That's an uber geek... lmao It might be good to add a few gadgets clipped to it... oh I like the dilbert idea... Get your tie standing up and you're set... __________________ “It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick” - Dave Barry

10-25-2003, 08:39 AM	#11 (permalink)
TheBrit Psycho	Wear a shirt, and put about as many pens as you can in the top pocket.

10-25-2003, 08:03 PM	#13 (permalink)
BentNotTwisted Optimistic Skeptic Location: Midway between a Beehive and Centennial	Excellent suggestions. I have a decent goatee and wouldn't mind doing some trimming on it if it would add to the effect. Things are not looking quite as desperate. Thank you all for your help. I'll post a pic if there's a decent one available. __________________ IS THAT IT ???!!! Do you even know what 'it' is? When the last man dies for just words that he said... We Shall Be Free

10-25-2003, 08:55 PM	#14 (permalink)
Church Tilted F*ckhead Location: New Jersey	I still think you should go Borg. That's the uberest geekiest thing I've ever seen.

10-25-2003, 08:59 PM	#15 (permalink)
Jam Junkie	uber geek.. u need spikey hair and glasses... the ones with the big thick black frames... wear a teeshirt with some logo on it for microsoft or redat linux or something... or even better a Counter Strike shirt... just make one with an iron on thing and write on it underneath that " 1 pwn j00!!! " also... you will need to be afraid of girls..

10-27-2003, 11:37 AM	#17 (permalink)
gwr_gwir Crazy	you could dress up as Largo, of Megatokyo, and run around screaming in l33+ about how "resistance is futile"... __________________ Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. -- Robert Heinlein

10-28-2003, 12:20 AM	#19 (permalink)
xjumper84 Upright	be a pimp.. with computar parts

10-28-2003, 05:52 AM	#20 (permalink)
rockogre I aim to misbehave! Location: SW Oklahoma	Find a slide rule, a big, shiny one with a holster, and attempt to convert everyone you meet into being a slide rule user. Only a Uber geek would be that retro. __________________ Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American G. I. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom

10-28-2003, 06:22 AM	#21 (permalink)
ratbastid Darth Papa Location: Yonder	You're going as the uber-geek? That's easy! Dress up as Linus Torvalds!