Image credit: Photo by Great Beyond on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Earlier this year, I read an article about technology that would allow us to record and store every moment of our lives. Imagine: our whole lives stored in a single searchable archive. We could settle those arguments with the boss by replaying what [...]
Posts under ‘I’m a nerd’
Learning to Say No
I am getting better at saying no, when I mean no, but it's still an area where I have a lot of work to do. Saying "yes" to requests is like a reflex to me. Tap my knee and my foot bounces up, ask me for help and I say, "Yes." Oops. Wait. Let me [...]
Updated Blogroll
Image credit: Photo by maher berro on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My blogroll was long overdue for a makeover. As you all know, the rules are: comment regularly and ye shall be put on the blogroll. But oh, what a headache to keep track of all that myself! Enter a neat little piece of [...]
Kick Ass Nerdy Stuff
Image credit: Photo by Shannon K on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons The message inside reads: “God is the answer.” A few months ago, I moved from Blogger hosting to independent hosting using WordPress, but I still had lots of folks visiting my old Blogspot address. I wanted to set up something that would kick [...]
Five Questions from the Maven
The Maven (and believe me, if you don't know the Maven, you should) was playing the interview game on her blog. I know I've done some variation of this like 5000 times in the past year, but it's always fun, and in this case, it got the Maven to e-mail me some words she handpicked [...]
Seriously, Kids, This Is Why You Should Study Grammar
Image credit: Photo by Jez D on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Many years ago, I had an argument with my ex-boyfriend about grammar. "You know, between you and I..." he said. "You and me," I corrected. He refused to believe me. So, we bandied about words like "preposition," "subject," and "object" before consulting Strunk [...]
Don’t Panic!
Image credit: Photo byJim Linwood on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons As you may have gathered based on my last post, I am playing with some techie type stuff behind the scenes. I'm going to continue futzing with things over the course of the next few days. If anything weird pops up or the site or [...]
Parenting Is Not Child’s Play
Before I had kids, I loved playing. At age 30, I owned a wide array of board games as well as a vast nerdly display of toys -- an X-Files Scully Barbie and Mulder Ken, Star Wars action figures, a poseable Godzilla and several favorite stuffed animals. I played regularly with my friends, and I [...]
I Have White Light Superpowers
Mim over at Mim's Muddle took a "Which Fantasy/Sci Fi Character Are You?" quiz and came out as Jean-Luc Picard. Envious of how cool she is, I took the quiz too. And (based on this highly accurate and scientific measure) I am Galadriel. Yep, this quiz (and who am I to dispute the wisdom of [...]
Unspectacular Haikus
J-Online asks forsix unspectacular quirks.It's a meme* haiku! 1.I rarely wear socks.The seams are uncomfortable,my feet get too hot. 2.Fluorescent lights hurt.Sometimes you'll see me wearingsunglasses indoors. 3.I'll eat the same thingevery day for days on endfor breakfast and lunch. 4.Sometimes I worrymy laptop video camlets people see me. 5.It doesn't help thatI take my [...]
