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Every day is my geekiest moment ... At my age (56) I still play video games , with most people in my circle of friends just think Iam too old to do such things (and they just dont get it???) But when I fix their (family/friends/clients) computers , they kinda get it after that , lol .

My senior year in undergraduate. Built my first 4-bit computer from scratch. Programmed it in Assembly. Having the output come back in binary LED display. All on a 6x6 breadboard. Made a simple calculator and a clock from it. Had to know how to decipher numbers in binary pretty quickly at the time. What made it geeky was that it was really fun!

When I tried to open the Swiss watch and broke it at the age of 9.

I went to a friend's house. He asked me "do you like an MAC?". I responded "I like PC better."

My geek moment was a few years ago when I went to a tailor and had them build me a YIP YIP monster from Sesame Street suit. What's worse? My wife got one too and I have the whole thing on YouTube. PM for the film. The dog thinks we're geeks. He is right!

Having to explain why I've got a notebook attached to a tv in the bathroom probably covers it.

My geekiest moment was when I heard the joke "A SQL query walks into a bar and sees two tables. He walks up to them and says 'Can I join you?'" and had to share it with all my friends.

I have geeky moments everyday, because I am a scientist. And doing something like explaining how a zipper works to someone who doesn't care is one surefire way to show you are a geek.

My friend needs a keyboard and I took out a brand new PS/2 keyboard.

when I put those stickers meant to represent your family on a car rear window with figures that looked like star wars characters

I actually own a replica star wars lightsaber, and keep it mounted on the shelf above my tv.

Definitely the early days of Fatwallet and our first Black Friday together...

In 5th grade, I stole my brother's remote-controlled toy truck, attached sponges around the perimeters, and called it the "Clean-O-Matic" as a solution for my chore of cleaning the kitchen floor.

my geekiest moment is buying my then-girlfriend, now-wife, a shirt from ThinkGeek that read 'I <3 my geek.'

using Fortran punch cards

Early on in my computer career, before many of the FatWallet people were even born, a client called me with a problem with their spreadsheet program. They had just started using it, and it appeared as if it wasn't doing any of the calculations correctly. I spoke on the phone with the client for a bit of time before I ventured the question, "Where on your keyboard is the "1" (the number one) that you are using?"

A pause and then they responded, as if I was the biggest idiot in the world, "Why, just right of the "K" on the keyboard."

You see, children, in those days, typewriters ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter ) usually didn't have the number one on the keyboard, so people used a lower case "L" instead.

Bragged about my FW achievements to my wife... O_o

Introducing a friend to the ThinkGeek website and watching his eyes glaze over with wonder. It was a wonderful geek initiation rite.

President of the stamp club in high school

I'm the IT guy at work - 'nuf said!