“We need to talk.” Those are four of my least favorite words in the English language. Nothing good rarely follows those four words. When Greedo needed to talk to Han he ended up dead. When Gandalf needed to talk to Frodo the world almost ended. When Picard needed to talk to Kirk it’s because KirkRead more
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I still haven’t seen The Social Network. I like movies and I like Facebook so it’s seemingly in my wheelhouse. Even though I haven’t seen it, the main impression I received was that Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t that great of a guy. After getting trapped in Facebook’s Timeline feature I’m inclined to agree. Timeline allowsRead more
Last week I wrote about a gray season that hit a crescendo last week, which had really been lingering for about a month. As I was talking with Aycia, she mentioned that I had seemed more distracted than normal for about a month. During that month I felt like my head was in a fog,Read more
One of my very dear Internet friends, @spacekicker, shared the above shirt with me yesterday. When I first saw the shirt I laughed. I love Star Wars shirts and one that also talks about Jesus is pretty amusing. After the initial amusement wore off, though, I realized that the shirt didn’t sit that well withRead more
Nerds aren’t known for their dating prowess and I fulfill that stereotype. Since dating wasn’t my forte, I was pretty excited when I got set up on a blind date. That excitement, though, was tempered by the distance I had to travel to pick her up. I had to drive about 20 miles in orderRead more
I know it’s not very nerdy but I’m a huge sports fan. I watch sports, listen to sports talk radio and talk about sports with my best friends. Really, when it comes down to it, I’m probably just a sports nerd. Sometimes it’s fun but sometimes it’s maddening. Especially when your team is playing TimRead more