No. 44

I saw this image over on Pharyngula. I thought I would bring it over here to celebrate Obama's inauguration. Hopefully the next few years will be a vast improvement.

Geek defined

Over at Looking for detachment, there is a brief discussion about the definition of geek, nerd, and dork. I stand by the stratification in my comment (Geek = socially acceptable, brainy person; nerd = socially awkward, brainy person; dork = socially awkward buffoon), but I remember PhD comics doing a similar bit a while back.

I am a Cool Nerd God, worship me.

Though, I am not as nerdy as ReBecca (maybe that means she occupies a higher post in the pantheon). I only scored a 92, which means I tied Silver Fox (huzzah!).


And here are the results of the second version. I am a Cool Nerd God. And, good news, I accept cash offerings. No need to sacrifice that goat though. My sci fi/comic is almost off the scale, history/literature is looking awesome. Science/math, looking good. The others I don't care about (I'm surprised my computer is so high though).



And I am an Uber Space Nerd's Mentor. Now I just need to find an Uber Space Nerd, and I can collect that cash offering I was talking about...

Another year, another meme.

Yay, the Earth survived another perilous trip around the sun! What better way to celebrate than a little meme devoted to where I have been on Earth?


visited 9 states (4%)
Create your own visited map of The World

I have visited a paltry 4% of the world (boo). Other people involved in this meme: Clastic Detritus (where I caught it), NOLÖGIC, Looking for Detachment, The Ethical Palaeontologist, Highly Allochthonous, ReBecca's Blog and Hypo-theses

The site also has a "Where in the US" you have been and a "Where in India" map. These are what mine look like.


visited 38 states (76%)
Create your own visited map of The United States

74% of the US not too shabby. Though there are some locations that you'd think I would have passed through (I'm looking at you TN).


visited 0 states (0%)
Create your own visited map of India

I have not been to India, despite the delectable curry (T_T).