Homely Scientist

The folks over at ScienceBlogs are having a nerd-off.  Well, I see a challenge when read one.  Nerdy? Oh let me count the ways…

• I have a rock hammer with my name engraved on it.
• I write with fountain pens
• All the tee shirts I wear have something written on them
• 99% of the above, are computer related
• The remaining 1% are: my Colby Geology shirt, my Colby Woodsman’s Team shirt, my Mickey Mouse shirt
• I’m wearing a blogging shirt right now
• I injured my knee playing football, during practice.  Stop laughing I did play football
• I know Latin
• Have studied two additional languages (German and Spanish)
• I can do my own Wordpress installs
• I used to code games in BASIC on my Apple IIe, from a book
• I skated over my own hand learning to roller skate (first and last time)
• I was on a competition lumberjack team in college (stop laughing) … and I still have the jacket too!
• I know how to code raw HTML
• When working on my computer saying "I’ll be done in a minute …" means something between 10 mins and an hour
• I have bow ties and know how to tie them
• I have suspenders that need buttons to attach them to pants
• I have pants with said buttons
• I have sown on buttons to my pants to use suspenders
• Just ask Lorraine … sock and sandals … no big deal.
• I was the guy who all the girls came to for homework help or to fix their computers, but laughed if I asked them out.
• My handle on LavaLife was PixelGuyBC … Lorraine almost didn’t reply to my first message to her because of that (whew, good thing she did!)

Is that enough?  How about my nerd score:

71 not bad, but I think I can improve on that.  Okay while Tara over at SB might very well be the Queen of all Nerds, I think I can qualify for Archduke at least.

Tags: nerds, nerd-off, geek power, geeks rule

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