Don’t be afraid to take the Nerd Test! It will even tell you if you really aren’t a nerd. When I found someone with a higher “nerd ranking” on another blog (see the comments for this post), I shared the information with Tall Paul, and it got his competitive juices flowing. (If you haven’t taken the test yet, one of the questions asks you why you’re taking it – one of the answer choices is […]
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Wiki Wednesday 9-26-07
Time to learn something! 1. Go to Wikipedia.2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.3. Post it! And after a week off, it’s back to the military again: Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Have questions? Find out how to ask questions and get answers. • Badge of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps The Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC) is a Corps of the Australian Army. […]
Ten on Tuesday: Ten Things You’ve Been Putting Off
Some of these things matter more than others. Updating the beneficiaries on my insurance policies and retirement accounts since I got married – nearly a year ago! Sorting out my closet and packing up some – OK, probably quite a lot of – clothes to give to charity Finding a place to release/BookCross those books that are wandering around in the trunk of my car – or at least donating them to the Friends of […]
Say it loud – nerdy and proud!
We really didn’t have a “theme” for our wedding, but if we had, Tall Paul says it would have been “When Nerds Unite.” (In honor of our upcoming first anniversary, I’m working on some wedding-related posts, so you’ll be able to judge that for yourself.) Thanks to Library Girl, we’ve literally been able to put this to the test. This is my result: I’m a little disappointed with my tech score, frankly, and the science/math […]
iPod Random Ten 9-21-07
Coming up next on The World’s Weirdest Radio Station: “You Were Right,” Badly Drawn Boy“Been There,” Clint Black“Dance The Night Away,” Van Halen“Shameless,” Garth Brooks“Listen to Her Heart,” Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers“Welcome to the ’60’s,” Nikki Blonsky and John Travolta (from the Hairspray soundtrack)“Moonshadow,” Cat Stevens“Suspicious Minds,” Elvis Presley“What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” R.E.M.“Handle With Care,” The Traveling Wilburys And…no traffic reports! Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this […]
Booking Through Thursday 9-20: “Sunshine and Roses”
The reverse of last week’s question: Imagine that everything is going just swimmingly. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and all’s right with the world. You’re practically bouncing from health and have money in your pocket. The kids are playing and laughing, the puppy is chewing in the cutest possible manner on an officially-sanctioned chew toy, and in between moments of laughter for pure joy, you pick up a book to read . […]
Wiki Wednesday 9-19-07
Time to learn something! 1. Go to Wikipedia.2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.3. Post it! Well, at least it’s not about battleships this week. In fact. this is actually somewhat germane to the first of The 3 R’s, even though Indian genre fiction isn’t really my thing reading-wise: Kinjal Kishor is a novelist in India currently working on the novel series Aatmayan. This is a major work of the author combining […]
Ten on Tuesday – 10 Things You Do when You Have Nothing Else to Do
Not to get all “busier-than-thou” about it, but I rarely have “nothing else to do,” so I guess I’d approach this topic as more as “10 Things I Do When I Have Nothing Else I WANT to (or HAVE to) Do.” Some are definitely procrastination practices, some are things I save for when the work gets done, and some I would actually consider to be things on the “to-do” list, just not high-priority ones. Read […]
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Take the “What Kind of Blogger Are You?” quiz. Survey says I’m this kind: You Are a Pundit Blogger! Your blog is smart, insightful, and always a quality read.Truly appreciated by many, surpassed by only a few Thanks to verbatim for the link (Karen’s a pundit blogger too!). Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe Join 2,318 […]
Booking Through Thursday: Comfort Food
Okay . . . picture this (really) worst-case scenario: It’s cold and raining, your boyfriend/girlfriend has just dumped you, you’ve just been fired, the pile of unpaid bills is sky-high, your beloved pet has recently died, and you think you’re coming down with a cold. All you want to do (other than hiding under the covers) is to curl up with a good book, something warm and comforting that will make you feel better. What […]
Wiki Wednesday 9-12-07
Time to learn something! 1. Go to Wikipedia.2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.3. Post it! What are the odds – for the second week in a row, I’ve got a ship story. This one served during the 20th century, though (in “the big one, WW II”): USS Killen (DD-593), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Edward Killen, who served in the First Barbary War. […]
Ten on Tuesday: 10 Cities You Could Live In…
…(for a month, for a year) if you couldn’t live in your own I had some trouble coming up with ten, due to a couple of limitations I placed on myself: I have to have actually been there, at least to visit No weather extremes, one way or another I’m not sure I could truly live in any large, major city at this point in my life; I’ve grown too used to suburban conveniences like […]
