A lot of my friends growing up were nerds. I had a friend in the 8th grade who wore his Starfleet uniform shirt for his class picture, complete with comm badge and captain’s rank insignia. Obviously, for the rest of that year, he was known as “Star Trek guy”, which didn’t seem to bother himRead more
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Nerds are known for their encyclopedic knowledge of useless information. For instance, I can identify almost any Star Trek: The Next Generation episode by name within 30 seconds. I’m a little worse with seasons one, six and seven, but I pretty much bat a thousand with seasons two through five. That’s pretty much useless knowledge,Read more
George Lucas is building a new home for the Singapore-based LucasFilm Animation. Below is an artist’s rendering of what that building will look like. Most. Awesome. Building. Ever. Read more
As a young nerd I had crushes on pretty girls who were always a few rungs above me on the social ladder. Unfortunately I didn’t have a lawn mowing business and I wasn’t able to pull a Patrick Dempsey and go all Can’t Buy Me Love. I wasn’t without hope, though. I had crushes onRead more
Ever since the iPad was first announced I have desired one. I don’t really covet my neighbor’s wife but, if my neighbor had an iPad, I would definitely break a commandment. With the release of the iPad 2 I can only imagine my covetousness getting worse. My covetousness might be lessened if the iPad 2Read more
The story of Jonah is very disappointing. God tells Jonah to go and preach to the city of Nineveh so that they might repent. Jonah refuses, goes the other way, gets swallowed and vomited by a fish, and eventually ends up preaching to Nineveh. The city repents and they turn to God. This great turnRead more