Book worm helpers

Hello Nerds!

My final list for the week will be over what you need to know about reading books.

Nerds like books, whether they are comics or real novels over different genera, so this list is how to read a book correctly.

When you read a book, you may be the type who reads the whole book in one go, or you may be the type who takes their time, reading only say a few chapters at a time, or you may just read a chapter before going to bed at night.

For those who like to read the whole book in one sitting, I would like to caution you that you may run into the trouble of content overload. When you read so much that you have a brain overload, you should take a break from reading, as in at minimum a couple of hours to let your brain sort things for itself. When you read, you should also always try to remember what the chapter was about, and if you can, that means you know what it was about.

If you read a couple chapters at a time, try to be consistent, but don’t shortchange life for reading, you can’t live in just one of the two worlds, going either way.

When you have a new book, you should try to divide the work out into equal parts, if you don’t want to use the chapters, use natural story breaks ever couple of pages to take a break and assess the story, only a computer could process more than that if you’re reading say… Dickens or Salinger, or Steinbeck.

 Books are great, but you’re no match for them, they will tire you out, which is why it’s important not to overdo it.

Also, in my opinion, never read when it’s nice outside, well... you can but I prefer to enjoy my time outside, because inside will always be there.

I hope this list has helped some of our more avid nerd readers, and remember, books are pretty cool but….

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Video Game Guidelines

Hello Nerds

I think this week, I feel a little listy. I want to help you not look like a novice, because… nobody likes being a novice. So today’s topic:  Playing through a video game.

First, before purchasing the video game, unless you really know that you want it, you should first do some research about the game. Find out what you’re buying, and you can do this any way you want, I personally find a couple of play through on YouTube.  Once you’ve researched the game, and you want to buy it, then you can buy it.

Secondly, and you may choose to do this in step one as well, check out price. Most nerds I know aren’t made of money, and even the ones I do wouldn’t want to pay an arm and a leg for one game (get it…cause the made of money). So what should you do if it’s too pricy? First, you may want to wait for a couple of months for the price to drop along with the popularity. Another thing you can do if you really want it is online stores like Origin and Steam. Often time the price in the store will be bigger because of shipping and packaging, which we just don’t care about.

Thirdly, don’t play through the game too fast, you can play any way you want, and can disagree with me on this one, but in my opinion it’s usually pointless to get through a whole game in one day. One reason for this is such, let’s say that you’ve saved up for a while for this game, you buy it, unwrap it, and wait all day to install it on your computer *if you are a console gamer, this doesn’t pertain to you* and you play through it all record time……………well…………what to do now………Exactly!!!!!! You now have nothing to do but replay the game, and in this case you have to hope to the video game gods that there is some replay value to the game. If there isn’t, than you’re pretty much out 60 bucks (usually).

Hopefully this list will help you in the future when considering or buying games

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Theatres, and some simple do's and don'ts

Hello Nerds!

Today I’d like to talk about some common things that I see, things that make you look bad in public, and you should probably avoid. Today’s blog: The movie theatre.

First off, silence your phone well before getting in the theatre, you don’t want to have to silence your phone in the dark, and people around you will appreciate the lack of white glare in a pitch black room. Also, if you think that too many people will be trying to contact you while in the movie theatre, you should either just shut it off, or leave it in your glove box. If you have a job that requires you to be “on call” like a medical job, or whatever, than you should leave your phone on, but on vibrate, then, should you be needed you can discretely leave the theatre, and not be the target of ridicule from others in the theater. Oh, P.S., if you do have your phone, put it deep in your pocket so that we don’t hear it falls throughout the movie. This should also go for any loose objects in your pants.

Secondly, make sure that you aren't in someone’s way; it’s not fair to the other people in the theater who got there before you to have someone sit in front of them, when that particular person is seven foot eleven. Try always to find a seat either at the top if you are gifted in the height department, or more simply not if front of anyone else.

Thirdly, try to have your food/drink all in order, and preferably in an organized manner when entering the theatre, this isn’t a rule, but it will certainly help you out, when you need a seat and the theatre is full of people.

Fourthly, have napkins. Napkins have a nearly universal application in the movie theatre. Constantly things are spilling, or you are eating and you need that cool drink to wash it down and the cup is wet from condensation, and what to you know – NO NAPKINS! They are very useful for every problem you’d ever have in a movie theater.

Fifth, be courteous. Try not to eat loudly; this is very annoying to those around you. When you have popcorn you really can’t help it, but still, don’t make it very apparent when the movie is in a quiet dialog scene. IF you can wait, do so, you won’t die from not eating popcorn for three minutes.

Six, don’t talk, and yes whispering too. Don’t talk during a movie, or whisper loudly, this is very distracting and you just look like a jerk for talking during a movie. Don’t be obnoxious, don’t talk loud at ANY part of the movie, and don’t make the nice worker kids escort you out of the theatre.

Well, I hope this list of things has opened your eyes to thing to do, and don’t in a theatre, this of course should apply to all Theatre, not just movie theatres.

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Nerds (like bow ties) are cool

Hello Nerds!

I’m back with another post @ 9:55 at night (I swear to you I wasn’t procrastinating, just waiting until I was good ‘n ready)

Nerds! I’ve recently noticed that y’all know how to do really weird things. I for myself know how to tie a bow tie (Because I watch Doctor Who), know many elements and scientific thingys (From Star Trek) and the list goes on.

I’ve noticed that we will learn to do very unique and weird things, things that others can’t or simply won’t do. We push ourselves to incredible heights to prove that we can spend our time doing things that some would consider a waste of said time. To them I say bollocks! Don’t not be creative in your ingenuity and style, we need to be awesome, not boring automatons *YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED* *cough, cough*… what?

Oh yes, Earth needs more awesome, we are in short supply, I mean with all the wars and icky stuff already here we need to have more exciting and inventive ways. And our generation could be the key. If you watch James Bond films, you’ll remember Q, Bond’s gadget tailor, he was the most nerd I’ve seen packed into one old wrinkly geezer in years. He made the best toys, and then stuck them into cooler toys!

Everyone as a kid was in inventor, playing with letter blocks, or Legos, or XY and Z, that’s basically all you did for years, then you went onto other things. But these people are a dying breed, as kids are getting Ipads and snookerphones and such we are not getting Qs and inventors as we used to have, and I fear for the future.

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The Bind Bang Theory (my ideas)

Hello Nerds!

You may have seen a little show called The Big Bang Theory on CBS, and on that show there are several friends who love to be nerdy, one is Dr. Sheldon Cooper, who is one of the stars, who is made fun of a lot by the others on the show. All of the cast of that show (minus Penny) are also nerds, and I find the show hilarious and a good show to watch when you have nothing better to watch on most nights, but I just wanted to talk a little bit about how this might change our view of nerds.

A common misconception is that ALL nerds are engineers, and ALL engineers do strange and socially unacceptable things. When you think about Sheldon, we all think about the socially inappropriate ass (of the Donkey variety) who doesn’t know anything about interacting with other sentient life forms as he might describe them (though primitively at that).  And I know that none of us think that he’s your common breed nerd, but still it’s a little dangerous for some people who don’t know this, and mock nerds based on a gross over exaggerated character.

Many of us like Lenard, too, but he’s another stereotype. He’s had a bad history with the ladies, is a shut in shackled by video games, fearful of change, and only goes out of the apartment for movies, work, or comic books. He is a competent scientist, but not many see him as such, they see him as just the nerd.

Wolowitz, an engineer on the show, is another member of the stereotype club, and his also revolves around women also (well… I suppose that could be said for all of them on the show), who is often scrutinized (by Sheldon) for only having a master’s degree on the show (albeit from Cal Tech). I have to side with Wolowitz, I mean a master’s in engineering! That’s at least four for a bachelor’s, and another two to four years to get the program! That’s eight years of working your butt off! Doctors usually stay in med school that long.

Raj is of an Indian origin, who on the show can’t talk to women unless he’s drunk, which goes along still with the whole nerds are funny because they don’t fit in. This isn’t cool. That’s like placing a mentally or physically handicapped person on the show, and making fun of him, which no one would ever do! This means that it shouldn’t be done with nerds.

I know I’ve wrapped pretty hard on the show’s flaws, but in all honesty I love the show, and I do understand that if they didn’t do most of listed above it would be a bland show, without any humor and nobody would watch it. So CBS if you’re watching this don’t take any offence. I love your show, and mean no harm to you.

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