by jflatnote | May 30, 2014 | Featured, Quotes
I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer. Neil Armstrong...
by jflatnote | Apr 18, 2014 | Featured, Quotes
One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he’s socially inept – because everybody’s been there – but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it. Neal Stephenson...
by jflatnote | Mar 28, 2014 | Featured, Quotes
If you spend any time in Washington you’ll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still...
by jflatnote | Feb 21, 2014 | Featured, Nerd Stuff, Quotes
Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of...
by jflatnote | Oct 28, 2013 | Blog, Featured, Gaming, Nerd Stuff
Last week I wrote about introducing my boys to the D&D Basic rule set from the Red Box, and taking a shot at building a classic-style map in Illustrator (I posted the vector versions that I made of the classic map elements). Today I just wanted to point to a neat...
