Nerds want…

1. …free WiFi in all airports.
2. …more outlets to plug in…
3. …that actually work.
4. …people on cell phones to use their inside voice…
5. …or hang up.
6. …maps in the “L” cars.
7. …people watching movies on their laptops to use headphones.
8. …to be there when rude lady hogging outlet finds out five minutes after her three-hour flight takes off that outlet she was hogging was not getting any juice.

xxx
c

Image by caribb via Flickr, used under a Creative Commons license

TOPICS: 21 day salutes, Chicago, communicatrix, List-o-rama!, Nerd Love™.

Chief Nerd and her hot Nerd Arm Candy are off to Chicago for the next four days, because nerds travel when:

1. prices are low
2. they feel like it
3. they need a break from the relentless taskmistress that is the 21-Day Salute™

Kidding on that last one.

There may be some posts of the canned variety until our return. No whining. It is, after all, winter in this part of the world. That’s when you’re supposed to have canned goods…

xxx
c

Image by never mind her via Flickr, used under a Creative Commons license

TOPICS: 21 day salutes, Chicago, communicatrix, Nerd Love™.

Nerds with a secret are like little kids before Christmas: they cannot—CANNOT, I tell you—wait for the big day.

The big day, in this case, was supposed to be closer to baseball season. Or at least post-Stupid Bowl. But I could not—COULD NOT, I tell you—wait one more second. Because I finally got my old pal, Tim Souers—the genius I blogged about a year and a half ago—to start a blog.

True, there are only a few actual “posts” up there. But he’s uploaded two seasons to the image galleries—two seasons, people!!! Hours and hours of chewy, arty goodness.

Of course, the beauty part is, not only have I given this outstanding gift to the world (via, well, you know, Tim’s time, talent and effort), but Tim is cool! He is a Cool Person!!! Who has started a blog!!! Which means…

I actually converted someone to the Nerd Side!!!

Bwahahahaha!

I will get you all, my pretties…

xxx
c

TOPICS: 21 day salutes, art, artists, blogs, Chicago, Chicago Cubs, Cubby-Blue, FOCs, links, Nerd Love™, Shameless plugs, Tim Souers.

Me, selling more pre-communicatrix art at a later (1973) Gold Coast Art Fair. Ponied up for the license this time, too. Paid for the framing, taxes on sales and everything, even though Doting Grandfather offered to pay the expenses and let me enjoy the profit. Not my style. That shirt I’m wearing? 100% hair!

And yes, my prepubescent hands are wandering disturbingly near my crotchal area yet again. What can I say? Give me the child until she is seven and I will give you the slut…

xxx
c

TOPICS: 1970s, 21 day salutes, art, Chicago, communicatrix, Gold Coast Art Fair, Scanning My #$@! Photos™.

1. Airborne works pretty well.
2. Chicago can still kick my immune system’s ass.
3. No matter how light it feels in the store, the 12″ PowerBook morphs into an Acme anvil after two hours on your back.
4. If you live in the Midwest, you resign yourself to a winter of frozen ears or Hat Head.
5. Call me “pointy”.
6. Regardless of your will to pass him by, Manny, the shoeshine guy from Atlanta’s, is stronger.
7. It’ll cost you $8 per person, standing up.
8. Not including tip.
9. If I had to move back, I’d want to live in Wicker Park.
10. I probably couldn’t afford it anymore.
11. The best espresso in Chicago, oddly enough, may well be at the venerable Miller’s Pub in the Loop.
12. The chicken Kalamata at Athenian Room is still the greatest entrée in all the land.
13. Especially after five single malt pours at Duke of Perth.
14. Great friends are not location-specific.
15. No matter how many exposés they run on the filth that lives in a hotel bedspread, I’m still going to contribute to it.
16. For better or worse, Dell’Alpe has cornered the giardiniera market.
17. I really do miss public transportation.
18. I really do love L.A.
19. Everyone loves The BF.
20. Break your shoes in first.

xxx
c

TOPICS: Chicago, communicatrix, List-o-rama!.