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Jessica Ann McGill replied to Nephtys80's discussion 'New Nerdfighters - Introduce yourself here!'

1) Its a very underloved color 2) I would so rather see ninjas, so could glomp them ^^ 3) cows would take over the world and we would be put in cages or their human zoos Hey all! I'm Jessica. I've been a nerdfighter for a few months, thanks to my...

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-awkwardly shuffles in- uhhh hi? I'm new. Urm don't know what to say...

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Cory See replied to Nephtys80's discussion 'New Nerdfighters - Introduce yourself here!'

Hello everyone! I'm Cory, from VA, US. I'm 22, irish, love to drink :P I spend a lot of time playing battlefield heroes, messing around with linux, and walking. I live near JMU, so it's always a party atmosphere around here. I'm brand new to nerd...

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isaontheway replied to Nephtys80's discussion 'New Nerdfighters - Introduce yourself here!'

Hello Nerdfighteria (almost typed nerdfighterisa haha). I just joined like 5min ago after watching the vlogbrothers on youtube for the past 2 or 3 months and have something to say to all the other Austrian Nerdfighters: Place yourselves on the map...

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Eric Dempsey replied to Nephtys80's discussion 'New Nerdfighters - Introduce yourself here!'

They don't even have fingers what part of them is dexterous? Their udders? :D

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It is good that you can join us. P.S. You are wrong, cows are surprisingly dexterous. };¬D>

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Eric Dempsey replied to Nephtys80's discussion 'New Nerdfighters - Introduce yourself here!'

Hey nerdfightaria :) I've been watching BH 2.0 for a little over a year now but only just signed up to the ning three days ago. I'm already loving it the chat is super friendly (which is something I've never experienced on the interwebz) and I've ...

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I meandered over here from youtube after I saw some vlog brothers videos on youtube and I thought they were hilarious. So today is my first day here. I'm really excited because I'm a nerd and I love everything about it. :D So far I love everything...

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What Kind of Nerdfighter Are You?

The kind that doesn't like labels :-)

About Me:

Basics:

- I'm 28.... so I can still get away with saying I'm in my mid-twenties, right? Right?
- I'm female
- my name is Charlotte, Nephtys is a name I've been using on teh interwebz since I was about 13 and had an ancient Egypt obsession
- I'm half Dutch/half English and have lived in the Netherlands all my life
- I own two very cool cats, Pumpkin and Pingu. They're both boys, and are about 1,5 years old at this point. Before them, we had Duvel, another tomcat made of pure awesome.
- I have a degree in conflict studies & political science, and work for an NGO in the field of conflict prevention and peacebuilding
- In addition to wanting to reduce word suck by preventing violent conflict I'm concerned about biased/prejudicial news reporting. I've done research on it but would like to do something more active about it.
- Three friends and I run a tiny foundation that gives financial support to a primary school in Nepal
- I love to read
- I love to cook and eat, but I don't eat meat - do eat fish sometimes. Fish are bastards anyway :-) (nooooo not really, I can't justify it, all the reasons I don't want to eat meat could also be applied to fish... I'm just inconsistent)
- I like various forms of juggling, especially poi, but haven't been doing it enough lately. I am SO going to the next European Juggling Convention, in Basque country
- comfort over looks ALWAYS in clothing & shoe choice... I also hate formal wear and thankfully don't need to wear it often for work
- when I have time I make stuff. Various random kinds of stuff. Stuff that I happen to need or want and don't want a mass-produced version of. I've made or re-made clothes (but i'm not terribly good at that), I have a thing about making lampshades, I've made various wine bottle stoppers with dragons, trolls, and in one case a cat (for my grandma) on them, my profile pic is a tree-shaped stand I made for acrylic contact juggling balls. Current project is yet another lampshade (they tend to have quite a short life span due to the juggling and cats)
- I don't own a tv and love not owning a tv, but I watch a lot of interwebz
- I am seriously, SERIOUSLY addicted to coffee

Favorite Books, Movies, Music, and more

There are sooooo many I'm probably forgetting a good few, but here's a selection anyway:
(eta: writing this, I realised that most of my favourite books were written by men.... am I a sexist reader!?)

Regeneration trilogy - Pat Barker
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story From Hell On Earth - by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson
The Other Hand - Chris Cleave
Flat earth news - Nick Davies
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
Then Again - Jenny Diski
What is the What - Dave Eggers
The Ministry of Special Cases - Nathan Englander
One hundred years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Jon Shannow trilogy - David Gemmel
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
The raw shark texts - Steven Hall
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Ghostwritten - David Mitchel
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchel
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the universe - Haruki Murakami
His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman
Extremely loud and incredibly close - Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything is illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
The Homecoming series - Orson Scott Card
As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela: Underground Adventures in the Arms and Torture Trade - Mark Thomas
The Way to Paradise - Mario Vargas Llosa

What's your favorite thing to put on your head?

kittens!

If you could do your happy dance with anyone who would it be with?

nerdfighters!

When did you start watching B20

2008

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50 Book Challenge... I'm in trouble!

Hmmmmmm I'm going to have to do some extreme speed reading before the end of the year.... or FAIL.

1. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
2. The Dark Bride - Laura Restrepo
3. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Saffran Foer
4. Flat Earth news - Nick Davies
5. Red sky at Sunrise - Laurie Lee (haven't finished it yet... hope I will before the end of the year!)
6. Submarine - Joe Dunthorne
7. The history of Love - Nicole Krauss
8. Looking for Alaska - John Green
9. The end of mr. Y -… Continue

Posted on October 17, 2009 at 5:00am —

Book Challenge update number... blah, can't remember :-)

Oh dearie, I haven't done this for too long, i hope I remember everything I've read....

1. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
2. The Dark Bride - Laura Restrepo
3. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Saffran Foer
4. Flat Earth news - Nick Davies
5. Red sky at Sunrise - Laurie Lee (haven't finished it yet... hope I will before the end of the year!)
6. Submarine - Joe Dunthorne
7. The history of Love - Nicole Krauss
8. Looking for Alaska - John Green
9. The end of mr. Y - Scarlett Th… Continue

Posted on August 13, 2009 at 9:34am —

Updating the book list!

Oh dear, I hope I can do this... I've been reading a lot and not keeping up the list. I think this is all of them:

1. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
2. The Dark Bride - Laura Restrepo
3. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Saffran Foer
4. Flat Earth news - Nick Davies
5. Red sky at Sunrise - Laurie Lee (haven't finished it yet... hope I will before the end of the year!)
6. Submarine - Joe Dunthorne
7. The history of Love - Nicole Krauss
8. Looking for Alaska - John Green
9. The… Continue

Posted on May 8, 2009 at 4:30pm —

Book no. 4: Flat Earth News - and Abidjan!!!

Oh dear, only four books complete and it's February 7th already! Eek! As I said before though, Flat Earth News by Nick Davies is non-fiction, and that tends to take me longer to read than fiction does. That is not to say though, that the book wasn't absolutely fascinating (and terrifying). I'm going to direct you here for a review that covers a lot of the content,… Continue

Posted on February 7, 2009 at 11:35am —

Book challenge update

Uh-oh. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep up the pace once I went back to work! Finished (and loved) 'Everything is Illuminated', and am still working on "Flat Earth News". Factors that aren't helping:

1) I never read non-fiction as quickly as I do fiction, and though 'Flat Earth News' is fascinating and well-written, it just doesn't have that "Oh-my-god-I-HAVE-to-know-what-happens-next-even-though-I-have-to-get-up-and-go-to-work-in-two-hours"-thing going for it.

2) Damn you, Ning! And damn you… Continue

Posted on January 26, 2009 at 6:20am —

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At 8:32pm on September 13, 2009, Fedora.Pirate said…: Ahoy there, I know this is very random and quite out of the blue but... do you happen to have have a video camera or similar that can make quick, short videos?

At 8:13pm on September 1, 2009, XOX said…: Yes. I wouldn't want to say much about it. I was not important enough to be monitor yet, but need to be very careful. And yes, I tried to work in the HR field. Not so easy with a paranoid government.

At 12:41am on September 1, 2009, XOX said…: Thanks for the link of speech by Ben Summerskill. Really awesome of your to decrease world suck by reducing conflict and chance of war.

At 9:16pm on August 14, 2009, Kate said…: YOU’RE INVITED!

To recommend a recipe for Kate’s Cooking Challenge!

Comment with the full recipe at Kate’s page. She will cook it, vlog it, and eat it!

At 8:00am on July 18, 2009, Fedora.Pirate said…: Yay :D

At 7:39am on July 18, 2009, Fedora.Pirate said…: Ahoy there barmaid, I'd just like ta say that you've become one o' my favourite Nerdfighters, keep being Awesome :D

At 4:13am on July 17, 2009, Padraic said…: Hahaha, oh, I'm fine, but I wish I could say the same for the UK. If it's not doomsdayers and their oink-barf predictions it's people watching cricket. And I'm not sure which is worse :D

And *wish made*. Now we can only hope :D

At 4:14pm on July 15, 2009, Padraic said…: Helloooooo Nephtys

I haven't spoken to you in quite a while, how are you?

Also, I lament the loss of CLub Nerdfighteria

At 9:11pm on June 18, 2009, Jenny said…: Aaaaah!!! I didn't notice you were adding me. :D
Thanks for your friendship, I appreciate it. lol.

At 7:51pm on May 25, 2009, Yining Su said…: Hi! I followed you here from your comment on my introduction in the New Nerdfighters discussion. I see you are working for an NGO in conflict prevention. I'm only in my first year of university but that is totally something I would love to do once I graduate. Hopefully you can tell me a bit about what it's like...