tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123545462024-03-07T01:54:57.175-05:00Nerd SavantA random assortment of simple observations, points of view, post-it notes, and napkin doodles.Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-379307030584394402010-05-27T21:22:00.003-05:002010-05-27T21:46:08.291-05:00NSFWIn the past few years, NSFW, an acronym standing for Not Safe For Work has become an invaluable tool for denizens of the interents. Knowing before you click through that what you're about to see could offend is truly handy in any number of situations, most specifically at Work. However, as I don't currently have a job, this is of limited use to me. What <u>would</u> be super useful though, is a notation that lets me know that the article in question is about the latest teen pop sensation, or who made it to the next round of American Idol or Dancing With The Stars, or the latest castaway from Survivor (is that still a thing?) I'm not sure what an acronym might look like for this concept, or whether it's something we can get people to start using, but here are a few ideas: NIAA (Not Interesting At All), 5MYNGB (5 Minutes You'll Never Get Back), OKTS (OK To Skip), DMTAWHAB (Doesn't Matter To Anyone With Half A Brain), JWN? (Justin Who Now?), JAST (Just Another Sex-Tape).<div><br /></div><div>Feel free to contribute your very own in the comments. </div>Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-5536745409612190972009-08-31T12:07:00.003-05:002009-08-31T12:12:00.285-05:00UnrelatedPlease excuse us as we attempt to set records in the combined "longest period of time between blog posts" and "sorriest excuses for not blogging" category.Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-40204395342375552702009-06-23T10:44:00.003-05:002009-06-23T10:47:10.593-05:00More Important Things I've Just Now RealizedI've read more books than I have friends ... by several orders of magnitude.Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-72738834388089759702009-04-29T20:17:00.000-05:002009-04-29T21:11:30.133-05:00I MUST HAVE SILENCE!!!So here's something weird that I just realized is a tic of mine. I just paused the music playing in the background to reply to a text message. And then I did it again to write this post. It's as though I treat music as a form of communication. Kind of makes sense, now that I think about it.<br /><br />Yeah! I'm not the weird one! It's everyone else.Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-61361139138968930312008-07-17T07:25:00.002-05:002008-07-17T07:39:19.174-05:00Gawd Bless AmuricahLast week, Belgian company InBev acquired Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Budweiser (Yay, America!) to the tune of $52 billion.<br /><br />“I’ll tell you one thing,” said a 21-year-old concrete worker during his lunch break at The Brick of St. Louis bar, in the shadow of this city’s storied Anheuser-Busch Cos. brewery, “if Budweiser is made by a different country, I don’t drink Budweiser anymore. I’ll go back to Wild Turkey.” (Wild Turkey, a Kentucky bourbon, is owned by French drinks giant Pernod Ricard SA.)<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">via ... well, WSJ, for one.</span>Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-76577380902439034022008-06-11T11:52:00.004-05:002009-04-29T21:13:14.032-05:00You Heard It Here First ...<span style="font-style: italic;">Gvangelist:</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">N. </span>One who consistently and completely unsolicited, proclaims the greatness and overall superiority of all Google software products and insists on your switching everything over to them immediately, ad nauseum.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Full disclosure: I am, in fact, one such Gvangelist. Seriously, Gmail! What are you using? It's better than that! Hotmail? Well, maybe if Hotmail came with unicorns and rainbows. Yahoo Mail? Does anyone still actually use that? Honestly? Horde? Well, OK ... But ... </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >built in chat</span><span style="font-size:100%;">!<br /><br />What's that?<br /><br />AOL? ...<br /><br />I don't ...<br /><br />I ...<br /><br />You ... should go now.</span><br /></span></span>Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-22092897570720524612008-06-03T10:51:00.002-05:002008-06-03T10:58:15.346-05:00CollectedOccasionally, I read or hear a phrase that seems so right to me that I need to write it down to ensure that I remember it forever. So why not put it here?<br /><br />This, from <a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/">Roger Ebert's blog</a> at the Sun Times:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"... is so definitely not my cup of tea that, for me, it is not tea at all, and does not come in a cup."<br /></span><span><br />Fantastic.</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></span>Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-17150001923681782772008-05-09T20:21:00.002-05:002008-05-09T20:22:31.282-05:00I Like This New Short FormThis commercial is fantastic!<br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BvA8N_NiuZ4&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BvA8N_NiuZ4&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object>Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-26319154065035544362008-04-30T08:37:00.001-05:002008-04-30T08:46:43.496-05:00Art Things<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px;">This is my latest freelance creation, a found-object, slightly steampunk inspired necklace. It actually ended up looking vaguely scarab-ish. Click the pic for more of the rest of the process and one of the completed, framed piece.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jaredm42/ScarabNecklace"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4W1enJzXstq8N57yHwKbw5R-nLb85gW748VT3rJRryDpMyQqAiVxjX3k_37rFbgzCHna9G0ZrFaCWiToD64ozAZBlr7DITy6Cwb6Cw5TK3v8GIgHU_uXF1jA1r1EUha-XHhcOFw/s320/IMG_4614.JPG" border="0" /></a> </div>Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-82090628043556814212008-04-02T09:54:00.002-05:002008-04-02T09:58:28.245-05:00Great Review Of RealityAs though it were an MMORPG.* Go <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/70365/The-Myth-of-the-Media-Myth-Games-and-NonGamers#2063862">here</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br />on <a href="http://www.metafilter.com">Metafilter.com</a>, via <a href="http://www.kottke.org">Kottke.org</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">*c'mon, nerd up. Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game</span>Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-1046932166317186792008-04-01T18:18:00.002-05:002008-04-01T18:25:50.901-05:00Signs Of The TimesI got April-fool Rickrolled like 5 times today. Is nothing sacred anymore?Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-5907941280749874812008-03-29T20:03:00.003-05:002008-03-29T20:06:24.107-05:00Just So You KnowOK, sure ... you may be doing your part to save the planet, but driving that Prius doesn't make you any less of an asshole.Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-70185827345799579342008-03-28T16:14:00.001-05:002008-03-28T16:15:05.640-05:00DoppelthingiesAm I the only one who can't tell Cher and Anjelica Houston apart? Is there something more sinister going on here?Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-46377213000610264892008-03-27T11:26:00.000-05:002008-03-27T11:27:26.137-05:00My Sentiments Exactly<a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/03/24/funny-pictures-angry-bbq-hates-winter/"><img src="http://icanhascheezburger.wordpress.com/files/2008/03/funny-pictures-angry-bbq-hates-winter-snow.jpg" style="word-spacing:731288px;font-size:731288px;" alt="Humorous Pictures"></a>Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-79693743251118883752008-03-26T20:25:00.001-05:002008-03-26T20:26:53.321-05:00Important Things I've Just Now Realized ...Generally speaking, I don't like people who like Hunter S. Thompson.Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-3523357435375735322008-02-20T21:02:00.001-05:002008-02-20T21:04:56.937-05:00This Just Has To Be A Metaphor For Something ...Great article on fairness and Legos. Wow, this brings back a lot of memories.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/21_02/lego212.shtml">Why We Banned Legos</a>Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-69272437353635167012008-02-13T18:36:00.003-05:002008-02-13T18:39:08.294-05:00Another Word That I've Been Looking ForVegangelical<br /><br />As in, "You know I'm never going to give up bacon, so don't get all vegangelical on me."<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">via <a href="http://www.kottke.org/remainder/08/02/15040.html">Kottke.org</a>, originally from the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/dining/13incompatible.html?pagewanted=all">NY Times</a></span>Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-46794086343538822372008-01-28T08:36:00.000-05:002008-01-28T08:40:52.642-05:00Having Slept In ....Holy shit! Is it 2008 already?! I ... uh ...<br /><br />Shit!<br /><br />I've got a lot of stuff to do.<br /><br />Just saw <a href="http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/01/28/obama/">this</a> though, and thought it was important enough to share. So, um ... yeah, what he said.Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-26920313809867449052007-10-10T07:13:00.000-05:002007-10-10T07:33:43.430-05:00To No One in ParticularCheap Trick had it right, you know. I do want you to want me.<br /><br />It'd just make everything so much easier on everybody. I'm not sure how the onus ever became solely on me in the first place. How fair is that? Not at all. So get wantin'.Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-4804276480448481392007-09-21T17:53:00.000-05:002007-09-21T17:56:04.228-05:00Hypothetically speaking, of course ....It bothers me a little that your smoking habit is perfectly socially acceptable, but I can't pick my nose in public.<br /><br />Just a little.Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-39835751895047034152007-09-21T09:39:00.000-05:002007-09-21T09:46:48.128-05:00CANADIAN DOLLAR EQUAL TO US DOLLAR! MASSES PANIC!<a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j6DO-M306r3uR6wYuld4DI8fUeXw">According to the AP</a>, the Canadian dollar has reached parity with the US dollar for the first time since 1976. Just another example of far our economy has slid into the shitter.<br /><br />Uh ... no offense, Canada?<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Via Consumerist</span>Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-37905705062445553612007-09-21T07:45:00.001-05:002007-09-21T07:46:15.001-05:00Unplanned Review<span style="font-family: lucida grande;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0847817/">Helvetica</a></span><span style="font-family: lucida grande;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >, a documentary about the typeface and it's affect on our lives. I'm sure you're expecting a dry documentary with interviews with typographers, but no. No, no. It's like freaking </span><span style="font-family: lucida grande;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0416449/">300</a></span><span style="font-family: lucida grande;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > with fonts! The final battle where Helvetica turns back the forces of darkness* is unbelievable. The dramatic moment of the year. Seriously, it kept me on the edge of my seat.**</span><span style="font-family: lucida grande;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: lucida grande;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >*Arial<br />**Actually, haven't seen it yet. But I bet it's sweeeeeet.</span>Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-66369121913419677612007-09-07T10:19:00.000-05:002007-09-07T10:22:36.540-05:00Rhetorically speaking ...Is it bad that I want a cat (even though I'm allergic to them) just so that I have more fodder for creating <a href="http://www.icanhascheezburger.com">lolcats</a>?<br /><br />Ha! Those things are soooo funny.Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-372406875172980662007-08-29T07:17:00.000-05:002007-08-29T07:23:20.870-05:00Also ...I saw Stardust recently, from the the novel of the same name by the esteemed Neil Gaiman. In an effort to bolster my unfortunately sagging rate of posting to this blog, I'll attempt a full review ... er ... later.<br /><br />Sometime this weekend, maybe.Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12354546.post-7392488722889304562007-08-29T07:12:00.000-05:002007-08-29T07:17:46.705-05:00At My Discretion ...Is it wrong that I completely write off anyone who chews with their mouth hanging open? Or should the question be: Is it right that such people even exist?<br /><br />The latter, I think.Nerdsavanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17569125684494152257noreply@blogger.com1