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geordi has some pretty wicked moves though, no joke
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I love you, Japan
by Kono Bairei
The art of the Japanese woodblock print is a fantastic demonstration of how, with very limited means, humans make spectacularly beautiful art. Woodblock prints are some of the most delicate, intricate works produced from Japan. They’re just gorgeous. Hokusai’s Great Wave of Kanagawa is probably the most famous, and it’s not hard to see why. [Then there’s the erotic woodblock print genre, which is pretty hilarious, and occasionally horrifying, but I digress]
I found today a series of classic video game characters (Samus, Megaman, Link) illustrated in the style of traditional Japanese woodblock prints. They’re so silly and cool. Nerds are the best. Japan is the best. I love you, Japan.
I remember playing through the first few hours of Metroid Prime (which I need to replay, what a great game) before Diminutive Roommate told me that Samus was female. I’ve played so many male characters, I was super excited to play a lady. I became attached to the game, fond of it even. It’s an old friend who made me die a lot, and freaked me out with space pirates. Good times.
I am many nerds
I’m a nerd in a lot of ways; I read comics, play computer games, play video games, read Tolkien, read manga, watch anime, watch sci-fi, play table-top games, attend (and dress up for) Renaissance Faires… the list goes on and on. I pulled out my keys the other day and noticed that some of my nerd-dom was fully on display, and had been for quite some time.
the weighted companion cube was a gift from Diminutive Roommate 🙂
Behold! My awesome nerd keychain crap! A Weighted Companion Cube from Portal, a light I got at ComicCon from the Battlestar Galactica booth, and a little carrot icon from the old days when a carrot on a stick was the most valuable item you could pick up at Gadgetzan in Tanaris from that one goblin, and god help you if you actually got those blue goggles instead, because that 3% meant life or death on a PVP server.
I get made fun of (mostly by Sister) for being a nerd, but she can eat shit for all I care. I’m having a blast. I’m not shutting myself in my room every weekend, hunched over a comic or my computer, avoiding sunlight and making no attempt at human interaction. I am not a Gollum-nerd. I am a modern-day nerd, enjoying my nerd friends and my eclectic interests. Plus, I have a few anti-nerd weapons I can whip out: I’m female, I’m attractive, do KARATE HAI-YA!, I have many friends, I go out, I have an (attractive) significant other, I socialize easily with strangers, etc.
I am many nerds, and I am happy.
The real winner: Mavis Beacon
There’s nothing like a professional typing contest to make me feel simultaneously physically superior and intellectually inferior. I’d rather maintain my currently level of mate-ability at 77wpm than achieve a whopping 163wpm at the cost of looking like this guy:
note the hunchback and complete lack of reaction to the supportive crowd
But hey, at least he’s modest in the post-event interview, during which he keeps his eyes locked on the ground in typical anti-social nerd fashion: “Yeah, there are only uh… a few other people in the United States I’ve seen at any of these typing tests who I think are as fast as me.”
The typing test you take online is typically a paragraph about badgers or planets, but the test these guys take has crap like this thrown in occasionally: “/a/&B#R{+1}>>[Bb] = X0 – 3 + @a rooftop * 32”
Ren Faire costume!
optional hood? YOU BET
I went to the Renaissance Faire with friends last weekend. So much fun. Now I need to get a real costume instead of just pairing that bodice I have with a tank top and long skirt.
Which means I’d have to start working nights as a security guard, because those costumes are really, really expensive. I’ve been eying this little number (pictured) from Ravenswood Leather for a ranger-type costume, something tough but feminine, because that whole damsel look is pretty but just not me at all.
I’d have this stuff forever, too. Every Halloween I don’t want to wear the full dog-suit costume, BAM! I whip out the Ren Faire getup instead. It’s a totally foolproof plan.
Be Random, Be Clear 
