This reminds me of one of those stupid email forwards that people I hate send me and expect me to complete and send back to them.  But this one is different:  "The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test".  It turns out I'm a nerd.  More specifically, I'm 56% Nerd, 13% Geek, and 26% Dork.  And to emphasize my nerdiness, I noticed that those percentages only add up to 95%, which means this website apparently doesn't think I'm a whole person.  But then I realized that these numbers are independent of one another.  A person can be 100% of all three.  Wouldn't that be super. 

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, earning you the title of:  Pure Nerd.

The times, they are a-changing.  It used to be that being exceptionally smart led to being unpopular, which would ultimately lead to picking up all of the traits and tendencies associated with the "dork."  No-longer.  Being smart isn't as socially crippling as it once was, and even more so as you get older:  eventually being a Pure Nerd will likely be replaced with the following label:  Purely Successful.

(via Digg) #technology

This company is designing a wedding band that heats up to 120°F the day before a couple's anniversary, reminding the wearer every hour on the hour.  (via Boing Boing) #products

The first watch I owned was pretty typical.  It was a cheap little digital thing with a belt-like band.  At the time, my tiny little wrists were too small even for the tightest setting.  So I was forced to punch a new hole in the watch band to make it fit.  Later on when I got other watches, they were always either too big or too small.  They never fit perfectly because of the spacing of the holes on the band.  Later on I got a watch with a metal band.  I knew this was a bad idea before I even bought it.  It pulled out my arm hair and left me permanently scarred (mentally). 

And then I stepped into watch band zen:  Velcro!  Velcro always fits, no questions asked.  When my wrists swell in the summer, it fits.  When they shrink in the winter, it fits.  A Velcro watch band can't not fit.  Although Velcro doesn't give me points in the "cool" category, I don't have many points to begin with. 

Velcro should really be used for belts too.  I have the same problem there. #products