and now my inner nerd would like to share a few words…
It just so happens I’ve stumbled across a few tidbits that appeal to my geeky side recently. I know lots of people like to say they were geeks (especially models). Well, I was one, fair and square. I was in a “special” class, I got the maths prize in Year 12, and the double major maths prize. And the physics prize. I wore an eyepatch for a year when I was 11-12. Need I say too much more…?
1. Guess what released this week? The Huffington Post FREE iphone app. Neat.
2. Do you have a stack of old National Geographics? Sean Miller made a very cool bookshlef out of his. Public holiday craft project, anyone? (PS he coated the magazines with a a water/starch mixture; placed them under pressure for about a week; carved out space for a shelf with a bandsaw; about 80 mags were used.)
3. Fun clip of psychologist Philip Zimbardo lecturing on how different cultures’ attitudes to time affect the wellbeing of that society.
4. Remember that ace OK Go! filmclip I posted a while back? Here’s how scientists made the Rube Goldberg machine featured in it.
5. And just to wrap things nicely…a very funny ode to 80s putdowns of nerds and geeks and dork by jocks and mega-bitches. Behold: The 80s Bully Megacut. The 80s really did have it in for smart kids (hey, I was there, I know) and spewed forth a whole lexicon of insults: “Fleeb”, “Tulip”, “Turd Brain” etc. etc. I guess it was an era defined by big hair and Ronald Reagan and out-and-out opulence. Brains weren’t in demand.
Hey, Sarah! How are you?
Found you through the gorgeous Gala Darling… you’re awesome!
I was a nerd and still am one. No glasses, but great school grades and an exotic taste in music/movies/etc. In fact, I only realized what I was after I graduated high school (had no clue there was a tag to classify me all along, hahahaha).
It’s tough when you’re a kid, sometimes hard as an adult if you want to mingle. But you know? It’s delightful to be a grown-up nerd. Wouldn’t trade it for anything in this world
Anyways, loved the bookshelf, hehe
Kisses from Brazil =*******************
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June 18th, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Ah, lovely to receive kisses from Brazil!! Thank you x
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Hi Sarah,
Thank you for your nerdy links, they all appeal to me!
Just wondering whether you have read Love and Other U-Turns by Louisa Deasey? I think you would really like it : )
Laura x
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rock on with that eyepatch! i had one too.
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June 18th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
hoorah!
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Hello Sarah.
I’m the short Asian girl that was working at Witchery in the city today when you came in.
I didn’t believe that it was you until you were about to leave but I just wanted to say I love your column in Sunday Life and you are awesome.
Keep doing what you do best…
Vicki
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June 18th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Hi Vicki, aren’t you lovely. I was in there yesterday returning the gear and asked for you…but you had a day off.
Hope you have an ace weekend xx
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OMG, I wasn’t the only person on the planet to wear an eye patch?! I had mine for about 4 years (in elementary school. Oh, the horror!). I alternated between one with a rainbow & one with a cat on it. It was a pretty horrible time.
I do have to admit, though, that after seeing all the cool stuff people did with swine flu masks, I was slightly tempted to bring it back. Slightly.
Nerds are cute, though. And you are perhaps one of the cutest
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June 18th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
four years! you soooo win. I was due to get an eye op about 6 years ago and some designer mates were v excited about designing me a cool pirate one. I wasn’t so excited….fortunately I turned to acupuncture instead. And it fixed the problem!
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The vid on time is so cool! Having been married to a west African and having hung around w.Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East for large chunks of my adult life, I can thoroughly attest to the differing attitudes about time. I love that he mentioned the language role in how we see the world – the tenses, the grammar structures which mark time, are absolutely of fundamental importance in English, French, Spanish etc but esp. in English. This is not so in other languages, ie Arabic, the focus is on number and gender rather than time. Somehow, this is reflected in the cultures….lovely
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I really loved that video about time perspectives! I definitely feel that my brain is being re-wired because of technology… but not necessarily in that much of a bad way. Because I’m go through reading so many tweets, Facebook updates, blog posts etc in a day, I’m becoming a better media filter and a lot quicker at sifting through what is important or relevant to me. Maybe technology is re-wiring my brain… but I like that it is!
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