Nerd, geek, dork (8)
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Sep 21, 2006
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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
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Remember Ring
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Sep 21, 2006
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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
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Watch band
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Sep 21, 2006
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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
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