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Quote of the Week – Neil Armstrong

by jflatnote | May 30, 2014 | Featured, Quotes | 0 |

“I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.” -Neil Armstrong

Quote of the Week – Neal Stephenson

by jflatnote | Apr 18, 2014 | Featured, Quotes | 0 |

“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

Quote of the Week – Jonah Goldberg

by jflatnote | Mar 28, 2014 | Featured, Quotes | 0 |

“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 spot them if you know the signals.” -Jonah Goldberg

Quote of the Week – John Green

by jflatnote | Feb 21, 2014 | Featured, Nerd Stuff, Quotes | 0 |

“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 Linsey Lohan. Why is that?” ? John Green

The Donjon d20 Random Dungeon Generator

by jflatnote | Oct 28, 2013 | Blog, Featured, Gaming, Nerd Stuff | 0 |

Last week I wrote about introducing my boys to the D&D Basic rule set from the Red Box, and...

xkcd – MiniFig Population Level

by jflatnote | Oct 23, 2013 | Blog, Featured, LEGO, Nerd Stuff | 0 |

Ha ha ha ha. I love xkcd. I love LEGO. xkcd comic thanks to Randall Munroe...

D&D Classic Map Elements and the Starts of a New “Old” Map

by jflatnote | Oct 22, 2013 | Blog, Featured, Gaming, Nerd Stuff | 0 |

I found graphics of the classic map elements that I turned into vector graphics, and got to work building maps in Adobe Illustrator. I am putting the vectors of the classic map elements up for download. If you use these, please give me credit and link back here:

D&D With the Kids

by jflatnote | Oct 21, 2013 | Blog, Featured, Gaming, Nerd Stuff | 0 |

This summer I started the boys on the old D&D basic books. This was an interesting adventure that I recommend for all gamer parents, and there are lots of resources out there to help and encourage you.

The Nerd’s Burden by McClellen

by jflatnote | Oct 10, 2013 | Featured, Nerd Stuff, Poetry | 0 |

This is not part of my Nerd’s Burden series (see part 1 from earlier this evening), but I...

The Nerd’s Burden (Part 1) – Information is Cool

by jflatnote | Oct 10, 2013 | Blog, Featured, Nerd Stuff | 0 |

I have referenced a lot of information about being a nerd. If you have been following along, by...

Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder

by jflatnote | Oct 4, 2013 | Featured, Nerd Stuff | 0 |

Trying to add some order to the massive pile of junk that is my bookmarks bar, I ended back on randsinrepose.com. Lost in new posts that I hadn’t yet seen, I realized that I have have never written about Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder (N.A.D.D.).