Some days, you just get by. Tired Fearful Small and crawly on no sleep (troubles, troubles) and a too-early dentist appointment made in good faith a year ago kept in resignation and out of more fear (bad gums, the family curse). And then after a day of throwing down too many cups of caffeine (all [...]
Nerd Loveâ„¢
Yes, when Chief Nerd and Bottle Washer takes a day off, she engages chiefly in elective nerd activities. Yesterday’s project was a long put-off expansion and reorganization of communicatrix HQ, adding file cab #2 and getting the G5 back online at full operating power. This is notable for two reasons: First, nerds have unaccountable phobias [...]
To you, it is a collection of keys (and affinity tags) on a key ring. (Okay, carabiner.) To me, it represents dozens of man-hours of thought: One ring or two? Or three? And what diameter? Fob choice? Fob size? What is too heavy? What is too light? What feels good in my hands? What feels [...]
10:15 am: Nerd gets e-newsletter from Vonage announcing deal for 20% off phone service for prepayment. 10:17 am: Nerd has phone service through 2/7/08 and $59 dollars in pocket. 10:20 am: Nerd mentally spends entire wad on six additional URLs for future blogs… xxx c Image by Fatty Tuna via Flickr, used under a Creative [...]
Let’s review: Obtains Ivy League undergraduate and law degrees. Check. Clerks for U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Check. Chucks it all to do nerdy research and write books. Check. Yes, Gretchen Rubin is beautiful and polished and living a life of chic Manhattan mommyhood. Don’t let that shit fool you! Not only has girlfriend written four [...]
Yes, that’s communicatrix-dot-com, circa December, 2004, courtesy of the Wayback Machine. Just shows what a couple of years and a couple of hundred hours at the computer can do for a girl. And her blog… xxx c Click the image above for rollover commentary and larger sized display of my shame. Or click here.
When normal people play hooky, they go to the movies or the beach or Vegas. When nerds take the day off, they go to see this guy, and come home 8 hours later, drunk with possibility, clutching a set of books so beautiful in both thought and execution, you get a little dizzy just opening [...]
