When the final Harry Potter movie came out, I was fascinated with how something so inherently nerdy lost its entire negative stigma. Now, as the start of the NFL season is upon us, I’m just as fascinated with how something inherently un-nerdy like football has gained negative, nerdy stigmas. Fantasy football is what happens whenRead more
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Yesterday Alycia and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary. Compared to couples like my grandparents who were married for 60 years, one year doesn’t seem like that much of an accomplishment. Even though it’s only marks 365 days, a one year anniversary is a great time to reflect on the past 12 months and lookRead more
The Bible is very clear about lying You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. – Exodus 20:16 Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment. – Proverbs 12:19 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices. – Colossians 3:9 LyingRead more
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