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What Kind of Nerdfighter Are You?

TV, movie, sci-fi, books, piano, guitar, quantum mechanics, graphic novels, theater.... Nerd of all trades.

About Me:

Possibly the oldest Nerdfighter (in age). Who can top me - I'm going to be 39 in May! Leave a comment if you're kicking me out of first place....

Favorite Books, Movies, Music, and more

Infinite Jest; Marabou Stork Nightmares; House of Leaves; Was, Snow Crash; Preacher; Watchmen; Sandman; Transmetropolitan; The Diamond Age; Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal; anything by Terry Pratchett

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

teatree oil shampoo, or possibly mice.

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

My friend Dave.

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Chicago Nerdfighters - Let us Gather!

Chi-nerds:

We need a get-together like the Boston gang. I'll take care of organization if you folks are interested!

Posted on March 19, 2008 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

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At 2:35pm on November 6, 2009, hubbit said…: Possibly the oldest Nerdfighter (in age). Who can top me - I'm going to be 39 in May! Leave a comment if you're kicking me out of first place....

Just turned 44. Consider yourself displaced. :D

At 3:35pm on March 24, 2008, serenity said…: Ah I think we have a little miscommunication going here. I'm not disagreeing with you on the basic points you've made, but rather i am excited by the various modes of communication. Truth be told I'm not much concerned with anyone's prejudices toward a particular medium. however, outside of an obvious need for quality and innovation in any medium, the medium does affect the message, and is an essential part of said message.

Here's a link that may explain it better than I can.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message

I am not saying that the medium "is (or should be) the measure by which the ideas within it are judged", but rather how it is an important part of how an idea is received and processed. for example an visual/auditory medium like tv or film adds the sense of sight and hearing, that a book cannot. On the converse side because a book does not include these senses the imagination steps in to fill the void and creates it's interpretations. Neither medium is good or bad, just different.

Take elections for example. In the era where newspapers were the main news source the words and occasional picture were paramount. many have said that a man in a wheel chair could never have been president if tv had been present. i dunno about that, but the sound of a candidates voice, their demeanor and persona often seem more important than the content of the message. Tv makes the message as much about how they seem as what they say.

Look at any war waged since the advent of television. The sites and sounds that this medium conveys to us seems to cause a much more acute empathy reaction than simple words do.

And so art expressed in the mediums of tv and film (and theater) also get to use the sensory expressions of site and sound to evoke the story. it helps advance the plot and characterizations. it is imbedded in the message/story. Film in a theater has the aspect of larger than life, tv visits us in the intimacy of our homes, and theater has the feeling and immediacy of live interaction.

I can tell we are both passionate about such things which is why I working to explain my thoughts as well as i can. textual communication is not my best 'medium' for communication, lol. (I'm a live in person kind of communicator XD.) i come from a background of acting, particularly theater, which is my university degree, so such ideas are intensely interesting to me. You're right, there is a prejudice out there toward certain mediums, but the popularity of these mediums speaks to their efficacy, and that is more telling than any prejudice. And the quality of the art forms created and the amazing artists who are attracted to these mediums is for me, also very telling in regards their value.

If I can be so bold i would caution against letting anyone else's prejudice affect your contemplation of the purpose and effect of a medium of any form of communication. Take this medium, textual communication. as I try to convey my thoughts you don't get to see my facial expressions and body language, my inflection, and indeed my accent. These all influence and affect my communication. without them I must struggle to make myself understood to a complete stranger who has no frame of reference for me. textual communication becomes as much as part of my message as the very thoughts they seek to convey for these very reasons, for good and for ill.

take the vlogbrothers. vlogging is the medium that conveys the message of a brothers relationship and which created relationships between each of us to them, and now to each other. If they had simply blogged to each other would we have been as compelled and would we have related to the extent that we have??? I kinda think not. and even when they do blog now, we have the frame of reference that the medium of vlogging created. we feel a sense of empathy and familiarity with them, whether or not that is completely accurate, again I don't know, but the medium of vlogging was/is an essential part of that experience, that message if you will.

well i have rather rattled on haven't i. let me know your thoughts :)

At 5:34pm on March 23, 2008, serenity said…: the medium is the message. i adore that quote. I find it applicable to sooo many things. especially for an online community. the medium affects and influences so many forms of communication and interaction. it's endlessly fascinating.

Ya deadwood was quite the saga eh. I wish i had caught more of carnivale. it was hard to get ijnto partway through, but it had the epic feel, as does 'rome'.

At 12:52am on March 23, 2008, serenity said…: wow, you've covered a lot of my favs already *high fives* haven't watched In Treatment, blackadder, QI, the wire, invisible man, jeeves and wooster... but the rest i know and love XD

must add in Angel though, and soon hoping to add Joss' new show 'dollhouse'. as for other favs...Bones, er (hard to let a show go that you've watched from the beginning), gilmore girls, veronica mars, touching evil, damages, men in trees, lost, reaper, chuck, supernatural,

plus guilty pleasures, kyleXY, 4400, blood ties, dresden files, eli stone, ....don't judge me, lol

i'm sure a non-tv nerd would go O>O but but but, i love watching the craft of good tv. it can be as fulfilling as any book. do you think the hard core book nerds will put out a hit on me for saying that??? *goes to read harry potter to compensate*

At 3:57pm on March 22, 2008, june said…: ok! i will start sending messages to chicago nerdfighters, directing them to your thread. we should ask them for suggestions maybe. ooh this is exciting. where do you think it should be!

At 3:04am on March 22, 2008, serenity said…: well, as you saw in her thread nature geek out-elderwarriors us by a bit XD...oh and in case i forget, happy early birthday!!! you should put yourself in zeintz's big birthday chart!

as a fellow tv nerd i am wondering what shows you're into?

At 7:07pm on March 19, 2008, TiffanyTuba said…: Glad to see the nerdfighter love is spreading! All I did was ning message John and Hank (and sent Hank an email for good measure) a quick message and the link to my blog. It was a week or 2 ago, but they sure noticed! Good luck with the gathering. DFTBA!

At 10:33am on March 18, 2008, june said…: tzikeh, i saw that you were interested in a chicago gathering of some sort. i am too!! i think that it should be soon, as peeps are bountiful. but that's just a thought.

so, have you had any ideas as to when and where and what? i'd be happy to

p.s lamb?!?!? i loooooove that book so, so so much.
p.p.s i read your lj post and i can help you with your 2/27 request.

At 7:58pm on March 8, 2008, Susan said…: I am a BANANA!

-nice to find the Chicagoan Nerdfighters! I was the only one on the map, back in the day, for a long time!