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Envy is something nerds often experience. Envy over the Blu-Ray collection of another nerd. Envy over the Xbox Live Gamerscore of another nerd. Envy over the greater encyclopedic Star Wars knowledge of another nerd. Envy isn’t just reserved for nerds and their nerdclinations, though. Everyone, nerd and non-nerd alike, experiences envy at some point orRead more

Last night, on our last night of camping, Alycia and I sat down to play Dominion. Dominion is a deck building game that falls between Catan and Magic: The Gathering on the nerdiness scale. I got the game for Christmas and have been fairly dominant at it since then. However, last night, Alycia beat meRead more

I’m camping this week so I have spent a lot of time out in nature. Yesterday Alycia and I went on a 3-hour hike through Malibu Creek Canyon. We saw trees, shrubberies, wildlife and running water. For a lot of people nature encounters like those happen on a regular basis. But for those of usRead more

For the next few days I will be camping with Alycia. Alycia grew up camping with her family. She has spent many nights sleeping in tents and huddled around a campfire. She has nothing but fond memories from camping with her family. I never went camping with my family. My family spent most of ourRead more

I’ve previously documented my attempts to be less of a fat nerd here and here. I’m still making those attempts and, over the past two weeks, have been making some progress. A big part of that progress involves regular exercise. I hate regular exercise. For the better part of two years regular exercise has beenRead more

I’m a little sad that Borders is closing down. For a few years Borders and I had quite the relationship. Borders had books that I thought I wanted and I didn’t have a budget; it was a match made in heaven. Even though we haven’t seen each other as much lately, it’ll still be weirdRead more