According to the good people behind the Nerd? Geek? or Dork? test, I’m officially a Modern, Cool Nerd. I scored with some moderate numbers:
56 % Nerd, 52% Geek, 39% Dork
For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd.
Nerds didn’t use to be cool, but in the 90’s that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn’t quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and “geek is chic.” The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!
It will be fun telling people that I’m 56% Nerd, 52% Geek, 39% Dork, and 100% Rock & Roll.
How’d you score?
- Written on September 22, 2006
- Filed under Life
You can hear it now:
“Say Hoboken.”
“Oh boh KEEN?”
If you haven’t figured it out yet (this means you my 2-3 loyal readers, and you know who you are ;-) ), then yes, we’re moving to Hoboken. After several grueling days of looking at apartments, we finally found one that has location and a view and is “reasonably” priced.
Either way, the ferry dock is about 150 feet from the entrance to the building so there’s my winner.
Hoboken beat out Edgewater & West New York for numerous reasons, but the biggest is the real estate mantra: Location, location, location. Again, 150 feet from the ferry dock; grocery, dry-cleaning, wine/liquor store, drugstore and Starbuck’s on the premises; sensational view of the Empire State Building and points south; restaurants, bars and shopping a block away (never mind across the river!); and the city of my birth (never-mind Frank Sinatra!)
But before we can enjoy all of that, we need to pack and move, so if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be going now.
- Written on September 20, 2006
- Filed under Life
I love it when you see ads that are contrary to the content in question. I was just trolling the old InterWeb during my last Dr. Is In shift when I came across a piece on CNet about the Microsoft Zune:
- Written on September 14, 2006
- Filed under Apple; Web
So, with all of the craziness of moving back to Jersey in the air, something’s been happening in my head lately. I’ve been awash in a flood of memories of my own childhood and then seeing Nicholas in my place. These come at all times of the day and night… during work, over breakfast & dinner, as dreams while I’m sleeping, and especially when I’m lying in bed beginning to fall asleep.
Most of these are memories I have of doing things with my dad as a kid. Things like practicing the violin in 3rd grade in my parents’ study; going to the Shop Rite in North Bergen with my dad where they had a snack bar and I could get a hot dog and orange drink (they sold Shop Rite teddy bears and trucks there too—craziness); biking circles around my dad at Hudson County Park; learning how to ride said bike on King Ave. (I crashed into a bush the first time I really got going); going to the 4-Star Diner in Union City after Sunday School.
I think about these events in my past and I think about Nicholas. I know a lot of the area has changed somewhat since I was a kid, but I know a lot of it hasn’t. Doing fly-overs in Google Maps is always wild, retracing routes I used to take to places and realizing how close things actually are to each other. For, as a kid, going around the block was like traveling to a different country. I found the intersection where I fell out of the car when I was five (yes) and saw what it might have looked like from the sky.
It’s great fun watching Nicholas have new experiences and trying to remember what that was like. We talked at my last CTL Staff meeting yesterday about what it must be like to have the imagination of a toddler. Do they see and can they feel the make-believe object they’re playing with that only exists in their mind’s eye? How can one achieve that glory as an adult without resorting to mind-altering substances?
I’m very interested to see how this all pans out when I get to watch him have experiences on the same turf (sort-of) that I had them on. Just so long as they’re his new experiences and not mine relived. That’s a tricky part of being a parent.
- Written on September 14, 2006
- Filed under Life
Okay, so being from New Jersey, I grew up a Giants fan. Now that I’m moving back, I’m really really excited to be able to see Big Blue live in person again. But keeping tabs on the schedule was always annoying.
So, I was trolling giants.com the other day and came across their “Download the schedule into Outlook” feature. A few clicks later, and I had a .csv file of the schedule. I thought it was a shame, though, that they only had a .csv file to download into Outlook. I mean, who uses Outlook anymore?!
Alas, once I had some free time, I was able to slap together a PHP wrapper for their .csv file to generate an .ics feed that one can subscribe to:
- Launch the iCalendar application of your choice (mine’s iCal)
- Subscribe to a new calendar with http://robmaurizi.com/extra/giants_schedule.php as the URL
- Enjoy your updating 2006 regular season schedule*
* … Their .csv file is just for the regular season. I’m not sure if they’ll update it with playoffs, and there’s also this note on each team’s schedule page about the NFL’s flex-scheduling thing in which case some games might move around later in the season. Not sure if this will be reflected in the .csv. If I had to make a bet, it won’t, but who knows?
- Written on September 5, 2006
- Filed under Code; Life; Web