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Proof of Nerd ID by Charles Cron

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, FaN! YOU’RE IN THE TOP 6%! EDITION

According to an estimate in Harper’s Weekly, 94% of all blogs worldwide have not been updated in the last 4 months.

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a favorite blogumn by Zack Bunker

Zack Says: I love a good creepy All-American product as much as the next guy, but when i saw these things dangling off a truck in front of me I was stopped in my tracks. The fact that this product even exists and is amazingly popular just makes me giggle. I love it when people take thing too far, so I don’t have to.

UPDATE: Also, if an app just doesn’t do it for you, now there are Phone Balls…check ‘em out at www.phoneballs.com!

From February 19, 2009

Do you ever personify anything in your life? Do you chat with the kitty and truly imagine them as a human counterpart? Now what about inanimate objects? Have you ever named your car? Have you imagined your car having its bad days and somehow responding to your needs like another human would do? Okay, now have you ever perhaps felt the need to add an accessory to it that may be somewhat practical, but still makes you giggle, like say a car bra? Now lets take it a step further and say maybe you wanted to see what was under that bra or car cover….would you feel the need to give said car a pair of breasts or testicles? Some people in this country are doing just that, and the hilarious product is called TruckNutz.

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I’m looking weirdly forward to going to Washington D.C. on my book tour. I haven’t been back for eight years. But I was told this rap parody captures Arlington (where a lot of yuppies who work in DC live) perfectly back when I posted it the first time…

From July 1, 2009

Dudes, I’ve only been to Arlington once, for a 3-day visit back in 2000 with my Smithie roommate. But from what I remember, this is dead on.

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a favorite blogumn by Joshua Pullin

Josh Says: I like the below piece because it’s the one I get asked about the most. And the longer I live with taking my wife’s last name, the more it feels real.

From January 21, 2010

Photo Credit: Lígia Santos Rodrigues

Some day around the age of four or five my son will ask why we named him what we did. This is what I will tell him.

Your mom and I knew you were a boy before you were born. We could’ve given you a family name. Only with one grandfather and zero brothers or uncles between us, there weren’t a lot of family names to pick from. So, we made a few rules. Popular names, even if we liked them, like Jack, Andrew or Ben, were out. Biblical names were out. Names that reminded us of anyone we didn’t like were out. Trendy celebrity names were out. We thought about naming you Joshua, but I didn’t want to turn my head every time your mom called out Josh. Besides, we wanted you to have your very own name.

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So, as many of you know, I’m just obsessed with Wii Just Dance. So I’m running my original review of the game and hoping all the things I didn’t like get fixed in the next version. We’ll see…

From March 4, 2010

Okay, I’m just an hour away from finishing my latest audiobook, but I’ve accepted that that hour is just not going to happen today. So look for that review next Tuesday and let’s talk about the new Wii game, JUST DANCE, b/c every time I mention this game on Facebook, somebody’s asking me whether I like it or not. So w/o further ado, here are my thoughts, organized in what I have decided to make my usual reviewing fashion:

Why I Decided To Buy It: The commercials made it look like so much fun. Also, this seemed like an even more fun version of Dance Dance Revolution, which CH and I played a lot when we were slimming down for our wedding. But on a more practical note, the way my (absolutely free) weight loss program [more on this later] works is that I’m given a low number of calories and after that, the more calories I burn, the more calories I can eat. My MIL is a fantastic cook, so I need to burn a lot of calories if I want to enjoy a decent dinner. You burn about 292 calories after an hour of non-aerobic dancing, and a ton more with aerobic dancing, so I’ve been dancing like a fiend lately.

What’s It All About: Basically you hold the Wii Remote in one hand and mirror the movements of either a male or a female dancer. And you accumulate points by how well you mirror her or him. Both dancers looked like they escaped from an iPod commercial.

What Makes It Different: Unlike DDR, you actually get to do real dance moves. And there’s a huge variety of songs from the 60s, 70s, 80, 90s and 00s.

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Of all the things I’ve featured for “One More Thing Before We Go,” I think this is the object I want most…

From March 22, 2010

Then perhaps you should buy one of these Georg Bohle piano tables. It fits in your dining room and I think it’s kind of genius. Though at $6000 it would be an investment. Click on the pic for more info.

From Sept. 15 2008

A Facebook Forward from Fierce and Nerdy Contributor Delia Hauser

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a favorite argument by Joe Rusin

Joe Says: The column below feels the most pertinent, since FaN is taking a vacation itself. The best part of the FaN vacation will definitely be when it’s back, though.

From July 28, 2010

As summer passes its midpoint, many of us have been engaging in ritual summer vacation—taking some time and fleeing our ordinary lives for a slower, relaxing set of days. Maybe we go to the beach. Maybe we travel and sightsee. Maybe we go camping. Whatever it is, we feel the need to get out and ‘recharge’, even if this time is spent in our homes away from work. I myself have recently returned from my vacation, so I have been giving a lot of thought to the nature of vacations, and I’ve come to a conclusion.

Living in the moment is overrated. Especially when that moment is so much better remembered.

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I no longer watch WIFE SWAP now that I’m no longer a new mother. But I still find this clip from the show that I became obsessed with for a few months the very height of hilarity.

From September 2, 2009

Now ya’ll make fun of me for watching Wife Swap, and maybe I do have a problem. But I think this kid is a prime example of why I am caught up in this strange addiction. If you don’t laugh, then there is something wrong with your funny bone, b/c this ish is hilarious.

[Source: Jezebel]

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a favorite blogumn by CH

CH Says: I wanted to repeat this “Buy Me This” because unlike most of my posts I believe everyone should get this”

From September 2, 2009

by Kevin Tiqui

With all the fires going on in Southern California I thought this would be a great time to talk about a home survival kit.

We keep a duffel bag in our garage with the following items listed after the jump. A lot of people like to keep more than what’s on this list, but I like having everything in one place that I can easily grab.

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