A few years ago, I took one of those silly (but amazingly accurate) online tests to evaluate my nerdiness. It told me I was a “Slightly Dorky Nerd God”. You can well imagine that I beamed with pride. I stumbled upon the site again and wondered what a few more years had wrought.
Read more...“I think of geekdom as something you can be obsessed with, something to collect, what do you watch, what do you look …
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A quick exchange of dialog popped into my head that was begging to be shared. I’m not saying how true this is, but I will say that the 80s documentary, Revenge of the Nerds, may have set some unrealistic expectations.
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I spent part of the afternoon working out the properties of a cone without using references other than remembering the requisite formulas regarding circles and right triangles. (Yes, I do stuff like this for fun. #dontjudgeme)
Read more...I think Steve Wozniak is perhaps, overall, the neatest of the old-school geeks. Partly is comes from the boxes he designed, but it’s also largely because he’s just a cool human being as well.
Read more...Without further ado, and without gilding the lily (yeah, I’ve been watching A Knight’s Tale, what of it?)–I present to you the top 10 reasons why geek girls are really nifty:
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A group of geek and gamer women calling themselves Team Unicorn released a video parody in praise of women like them. It’s …
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Hollywood keeps churning out superhero movies (well…except for Wonder Woman — and I’d be more than happy to give it a shot), …
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Y’all know I’m a geek. I’ve been a geek–and also a nerd (it varies)–for a very long time. Most, if not all, geeky/nerdy types have blind spots within our own culture. For me, it’s zombies.
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I admit it–I’m a bit of a sucker for geek humor. Is it wrong that I’d actually like to watch this movie about a Norwegian boy, raised in a Windows family, whose heart leads him to (gasp) open-source?
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Prepping for The Connor Wars was an interesting exercise. The big thing was deciding how much of the future world we had seen that I was going to use
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It’s been an odd and unlikely journey. With my TNG tapes having long since been boxed and stored, I honestly hadn’t devoted any time with thoughts of Wil Wheaton. And now, he’s one of my favored celebrities. …And I’m still not sure why.
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I was reading a story about how this computer from 1985 was becoming a museum piece, and couldn’t help but chuckle to myself about how times have changed. Like many who will read this blog, I started playing with computers when I was a kid…
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