(In honor of the first anniversary of my second marriage on October 21, I’m doing some reminiscing.) All pictures in this post are credited to, and copyrighted by, Michael Getlin Fine Photography/Getlin Media and are used by permission for personal/non-commercial purposes. Even if you’re trying to keep a wedding fairly small and not too complicated, the amount of info and stuff involved can quickly get overwhelming. The wedding industry is well aware of this, and […]
Time to learn something! 1. Go to Wikipedia.2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.3. Post it! This one’s really for the nerds (Confession – First Husband was a D&D player, and I sat in on some sessions during college): Elf (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, elves are a humanoid race that are one of the primary races available for play as player characters. Elves are renowned […]
Last week’s fun with the Nerd Test brought this comment in MaryP’s post, where she said in response to someone else’s remark that “I always knew I wasn’t cool”: I’ve never really aspired to it… Here’s the ironic thing: I was a geek all through high school, when I would have been most likely to care; now that I have teen-age children and truly have no patience with the idea of striving to be cool? […]
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 […]
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 […]
When TallGuy and I were first getting to know each other via e-mails, the “favorite movies” question came up early on. He’s more of a movie maven than I am, and his favorite movies tend to depend on his mood, but at the time he had The Incredibles pretty high on his list, and we both agreed – and still agree – that Pixar totally rules. If you ask us, Cars was robbed of the […]
