Janet has declared a "Nerd off." Here are two tales which made me reflect upon my nerdiness.
- Once a friend and I mocked another friend because of their clumsy pipetting technique (he transferred volume like a girl! Oops, sorry Janet, that was a joke :-)
- In a linear algebra study session I once made a joke which conflated 9-space with 3-space. Everyone laughed uproariously.
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Sonny boy, I remember when lab techs still pipetted by mouth.
incorporating the Roche Limit (from astronomy) into a poem.
...a poem that was not transparently about astronomy, that is.
I consider myself a born-again nerd. I was a smart-jock in high school so of course I chose to emphasize the jock aspect to impress the fairer sex. After college ended I found out I really really missed learning. I started reading like crazy. I'm almost entirely self-taught in science, math, and computers. The last two books I read were statistics books (one textbook, one a history of). I even founded a "science club" with some friends which basically involves building stuff, launching stuff, or blowing stuff up. Right now I'm wearing a shirt that says "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipate" (from ThinkGeek). BTW, if you have anything fun to do with SF6 for my next science club, let me know.
I once dreamed about rescuing a damsel in distress: she was immured in a castle wall, so I had to demolish it open quickly, before she suffocated. As I prepared to set off the bomb, I asked myself 'adiabatic or isothermal'?
Adiabatic, I thought, and blew open the wall.