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How to tell you’re a nerd: Method 257 (or “Jack is back. All hail the power...
You recently saw the film Pompeii, which you enjoyed mostly because of Kiefer Sutherland’s performance as a villainous Roman senator. However, you kept getting distracted each time he appeared in a...
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How to tell you’re a nerd: Method 258 (or “The Unsuccessful Attempts at...
You have become obsessed with playing the Play Magnus chess app in which you are pitted against a computer opponent modeled after chess champion Magnus Carlsen’s chess-playing ability between the ages...
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How to tell you’re a nerd: Method 259 (or Salutations, Apologies, and the...
When you nearly collided with a group of Korean Airline pilots and flight attendants in a Dallas, Texas hotel lobby last month because you were too consumed in conversation to watch where you were...
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In an alternate universe: Event 21 (or “I’ve got a golden billete!”)
In an alternate universe, Roald Dahl did not enjoy the success of his beloved children’s book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Instead, he wrote a dismally unpopular book called Charlie and the...
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How to tell you’re a nerd: Method 260 (or “Hello Dummy!”)
Upon a recent visit to a used book store, you reacted to discovering a cache of old stand-up comedy LPs the same way most people would react to finding a rare Beatles album. In describing the moment of...
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How to tell you’re a nerd: Method 261 (or “Neil Gaiman, I invoke thee!”
When asked, during a library job interview, to discuss the relevance of libraries in today’s society, your response included the following quote, which you enthusiastically credited to Neil Gaiman:...
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How to tell you’re a nerd: Method 262 (or a Halloween thought experiment,...
When discussing a possible Halloween costume to wear to a party, you suggest creating an outfit inspired by the 1935 thought experiment known as “Schrodinger’s cat” devised by Austrian physicist Erwin...
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How to tell you’re a nerd: Method 263 (or Generation XBox)
During a recent holiday gathering with the family of your significant other, you decide to educate the youngsters playing Minecraft and Lego Batman video games on an XBox 360 by telling them about the...
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How to tell you’re a nerd: Method 264 (or Christmas gifts and time travel)
Your favorite gift received during the holiday season involved DVDs of Time Trax, a 1990s television series about a time traveling lawman, which you hadn’t seen in twenty years. Tagged: Christmas,...
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How to tell you’re a nerd: Method 266 (or Wedding “Clashers”)
While serving as a groomsman at the wedding of a long-time friend, casual conversation with your fellow groomsman evolved into an elaborate, comedic brainstorming session of hypothetical wedding plans...
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How to tell you’re a nerd: Method 253 (or Photographic priorities and state...
Upon a recent visit to the State Fair of Texas with your significant other, you unintentionally surprise those who requested pictures of your time spent there by not taking photographs of anyone....
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How to tell you’re a nerd: Method 254 (or “The Way of the Thankful Turkey”)
You have devoted a large portion of your Thanksgiving holiday break to streaming kung fu and samurai films in between reading old pulp fiction crime novels in e-book format. Tagged: bushido, comedy,...
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How to tell you’re a nerd: Method 255 (or “The Secret Life of an Antarctic...
You anxiously await the upcoming holiday so that you might entertain (though most likely annoy) your relatives with tales of your fictional creation, Guraknok the Christmas Golem. Such tales involve an...
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How to tell you’re a nerd: Method 256 (or “I’m your biggest fan….”)
Now that Stephen King has joined Twitter, part of you wants to just tweet the man all day as if he was your pen pal. However, you know that this is an ill-advised course of action, as it is fueled by...
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How to tell you’re a nerd: Method 265 (or Temporal agents and the...
While discussing your thoughts on the Spierig brothers’ time travel film Predestination, starring Ethan Hawke, you talked about how it was not quite the “temporal policeman catching criminals” film the...
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