{"id":1056,"date":"2008-02-12T09:05:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T14:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/nerd-handbook\/"},"modified":"2008-02-12T09:05:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T14:05:40","slug":"nerd-handbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/nerd-handbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerd Handbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

I usually don’t describe myself as a nerd, I almost always say geek.\u00c2\u00a0 Nerd usually is reserved for the hardcore, or at least in my mind.\u00c2\u00a0 The word “geek” comes across as being\u00c2\u00a0ever so slightly more socially adept and slightly less technical, but that may just be splitting hairs.\u00c2\u00a0 In any case when I stumbled onto this post called The Nerd Handbook<\/a>, I realized that while not everything fits exactly with me, there were a lot of things in here where I was thinking, “my god I do that all of the time”, and “my god, poor Nikki”.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s sort of a handbook for nerd understanding written for the significant other in a nerd’s life.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The almost painful understanding of computers, love of toys and puzzles, multiple points of attention (and distraction) \u00c2\u00a0and appetite for information, these are all very much bang-on.\u00c2\u00a0 The relevancy filter is something I am prone to and struggle mightily with sometimes.\u00c2\u00a0 My brain definitely has a mind of it’s own sometimes and I have to fight to keep it on track.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t think I\u00c2\u00a0conform to some of the other points, like inability to make small talk and the control issues part, but you probably know someone who does map to that stuff exactly.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m hoping Nikki reads this little article and maybe has at least one\u00c2\u00a0small moment of “oh that’s why he does that”.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I usually don’t describe myself as a nerd, I almost always say geek.\u00c2\u00a0 Nerd usually is reserved for the hardcore, or at least in my mind.\u00c2\u00a0 The word “geek” comes across as being\u00c2\u00a0ever so slightly more socially adept and slightly … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-family-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-h2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}