Nerds, takes one to know one.

I got home from work yesterday, and when about my normal routine after eating dinner, which involves sitting my lazy ass on the couch and listening to the TV as I work on my D&D campaign.

I began to bellyache about the complexity of the program I'm working in to design the interface that the players use. My wife, who was sitting on the other couch suddenly asked me if I had read bad sandwich chronicles yesterday. I had not so I was treated to an post that I think everyone would enjoy.

For those of you that don't know www.badsandwhichchronicles.net is a blog run by Brendan Kelly, a musician that I really dig, its totally worth checking out.

Anyway so yesterdays post tailed about the co-opting of nerd culture, and I have to say it hit home. Being a nerd myself I have become a little upset that there are a assload of people that I feel have no right knowing about middle earth knowing about it. However he points out that since its now cool to be the nerd the hot girls that never wanted anything to do with people like me in highschool would now think I was the shit...this theory is proven true by the fact that I married a super hot girl.

The main thing I took from the post is that society has finally caught up with our the advice mothers of nerds have been telling them all along, "She'll be looking for someone like you when she's older and realizes there's more to life then dating the football captain."

What's shocking about this is that a lot of nerds are, upset, like I was, that this is what's going on. Seriously. If I wasn't married I'm pretty sure I would be able to pick up chicks in a bar by showing my D&D players hand book the I have on my phone, and they wouldn't just talk to be because I'm devastatingly handsome, but cause they think Dungeons and Dragons is cool now.

What I'm saying is that its the time for nerds to shine, to be the rock stars we always knew we were. So get you asses out of the basement, and show off your gundam collection, explain to a girl why a 2d8 does more damage then 1d12, and for the love of got stop bitching for something we've always wanted and enjoy it.

-n-

Make sure to check out Brendan Kelly's blog,
www.badsandwichchronicles.net

Insight into the mind of Nathan

I like to write, its one of the reasons I maintain this blog, in addition to building a d&d campaign from scratch, writing songs, working on a novel, and keeping a story driven twitter account going. It let's me stretch a creative muscle that I don't use nearly enough anymore.

With work being what it is, and life at home having to focus on the process of IVF, I've find myself retreating I to the my writing a lot not, but more out of necessity then of desire to do so, and I think it shows. Its the problem one faces when they are doing a lot of projects at once, and their energy is being poured into other things. You don't write with anything behind it, you just write, and churn out things just so you can have written something. Doesn't mean they're ground breaking or insightful or even funny, because likely they are not.

So, I want to apologize it things haven't been up to my typically high standards. I read somewhere that as a writer you should keep writing, always no matter how much you think it sucks write, and that's what I'm doing.

-n-

Monday Mornin' Comin' Down

So I was on hiatus, from writing through pretty much all December (and most of November I think) and some stuff happens during that time, many of which revolved around the infertility issue that I may or may not have brought up before, so let's just say they sucked cause they did.

In addition to that I also had a lovely experience with cold meds, by inadvertently taking too much theraflu, liquid Tylenol, and decongestant, my walk from the office to the subway was fantastic to say the least. However I did spend the rest of the night worrying I was jaundice, I kept checking to see if I was yellowing, through out the night, which I assume made the cold worse because of lack of sleep.

I got some socks for Xmas too, and a gasmask.

So now to present events...

The weekend is over, and over spent much of my ride into the city, wondering where it went exactly. I had hoped to spend this weekend working on getting my "new" computer up and running. The computer is actually only new to me since it is in fact a little over 5 years old, and still running VISTA. Its not so bad though, it actually works awesome for what I need, which is a computer with over 2gb of ram (this puppy has 4 which also happens to be its max available) but that's just me, I'm a tech hound that willingly takes hand me downs to serve his needs. Shameful I know, but it gets the job done.

I remember when I was younger that weekends seemed to last forever, now they are gone I a flash. Its upsetting when you start to think about it, because your perception of time gets warped, and things that are fun speed by cause they just break up the mundane of your unfun job. Just an observation.

My regular readers might be aware that I am running a dungeon's and dragon's game for a few buddies of mine (including my future brother-in-law). Well he had I had been chatting, and decided that it might be fun to do one for my family (my sister, my wife, mom and dad, and our exchange student). Having agreed on some little things we attempted to explain the overview of the game last night. This proved to be a very difficult task, since my father had too much wine at dinner and was now happily singing along to every song that came on the steel, my mother was shooting my father looks, my sister was translating the various classes to the exchange student, (this was after I described a barbarian as a Norwegian) and my wife sat there explaining how she was only willing to play if she could be bad ass. This prompted the rule that my father is not allowed to drink during the game, and I gave my wife the class of a rouge, so she could stab things, over all this should prove to be interesting.

-n-