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Archive for April, 2008

Thanks to Taryn for pointing me to this fantastic article on nerds:
“Who’s a Nerd, Anyway?” by Benjamin Nugent (NYTimes, 7/29/2007)

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CAR TALK TIP:  THIS DRIP IS NORMAL [Monday, April 14, 2008]
Dear Tom and Ray:
Occasionally, I find water under my exhaust pipe.  There’s a black carbonlike substance on top.  What is it?
–Sidney
Ray:  Like my brother, this is an ordinary drip, Sidney.  It’s H2O.  Water is a by-product of combustion, so it’s produced whenever you run the [...]

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Guys, I am a nerd.  Unabashedly, unashamedly, brazenly, flagrantly a nerd.  Some of you, I know, had some false impression that this was not true.  I don’t know who of you that is–probably those of you who have never met me.  I think it must be the fact that I don’t ever actually wear my [...]

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I realized today why I haven’t found my true love and my life is terrible; even more important, I’ve realized I don’t really love Jesus.  It’s because I don’t send those e-mail forwards.  Just think:  if I had started doing that when those things first started coming to me, I could have found my true [...]

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