Whats in your purse, nerd lady?

Felix and I have decided to let you all in on our secrets...that being, what nerdy chicks carry in their gigantic purses.

I am a bit of a tomboy (and will freely and proudly admit this fact and then go climb some shit), and have been known to favor stomping around in gigantic footwear as opposed to tottering around in pretty little heels, and until recently, shunned the idea of carrying a purse. I carried my camera bag, which had enough room for my wallet and some gum, and that was all I needed. And then I needed a large purse one day (long story), and just...kept on carrying it around. I'm about two weeks away from being a crazy bag lady who pushes around a shopping cart with her entire life inside. No foolin'.

So here's a little glimpse into my nerdy little purse. I'm amazed that all of this fits inside (and I left out my random assortment of pills and checkbooks, since that stuff is kinda boring?). Also, it prompted me to clean it out a little bit (not much), so that's a good thing...? Felix will have hers pretty soon, and I promise it is much more interesting than mine.

SO.



From the left:
· Handmade arm warmers (my office building is freezing)
· Cancer sticks
· Not one, not two, but three pairs of sunglasses (look for the third in my next style icon post)
· Work name-tag...playas gotta get paid.
· Large headphones, teensy MP3 player (last played: MSTRKRFT's "Easy Love")
· Perfume
· Business cards from my tattoo artist (the delightful Ximena Quiroz of Skeleton Key in PDX)
· Janky wallet, full of cards
· A CD made by my good friend Michael, of the group [product]
· A pen, cause you never know when you'll need an emergency tracheotomy
· Buck Bumble for the N64 (yes!!)
· Phone #1
· Keys, most of which are never used, but my keychain contains a bunny, Darth Vader and a Gamestop card
· A Magic deck, neglected as I have not yet learned how to actually play
· Lighter
· Burts Bees
· Phone #2
· Felix's flash drive
· Business card from my favorite pizza place
· Case containing various lens filters
· A couple of lens adapters
· The manual for my camera
· A Canon Rebel XS (not pictured, and I'll let you guess why)

So there you have it. Who knows what kind of nerd I am, exactly, but if nothing else, I'm certainly a pack rat.

Not-Birthday Birthday

One of the two people in this picture has a birthday upcoming... I won't say which one. Just know that it is celebrated around the world in different fashions, and hiding all day playing video games is the one chosen this year- a so-called "jiggyfest". Please don't ask what that means.

So, everyone, plan your May 20ths accordingly...

[Explitive delteted] and pain

Here's a clip of one of my favorite Geek Girls, Kari Byron, testing the myth that swearing increases your pain tolerance in true Mythbusters fashion!

Oh my goodness gracious!

Just look look LOOK at these nails! Nothing really to say and I don't know where this image comes from...but seriously...wow. Whoever owns this hand is probably the poshest Miyazaki fan ever.

Nerd Movie-Ladies

Hello again!

So I'm just gonna come right out and say it, I'm a huge movie nerd. And that sort of nerdiness is on no way a secret; I'll quote Tarantino (my future ex husband, and he doesn't know that yet, so shhh), quote The Rocky Horror Picture Show word for word (hellooooooooo, lonely childhood!) and I actually own a movie called Kung Fu Death Punch. I'm the sort of elitist asshole who patiently explains that my old myspace name was not from the original "The Cabinet of Dr Caligari" but from the 80s b-movie, "Dr Caligari," and will argue until proven wrong who was in what movie which year and which awards were won...often times continuing after I've been proven wrong. But movies are an excellent source of nerd girls, and sometimes, you get the sort of awkward love story that freaky hermits like myself can swoon over in between rounds of Mystical Ninja: Starring Goemon.

Today's Nerdy Movie-Lady is:

LILY
(from "Eagle VS. Shark" (2007))Played by Loren Horsley

Lily, while lacking in nerdy obsessions, is the sort of awkward, sweet person that you want to just scoop up and put into your pocket forever. (is that weird?) She and the love interest (played by Jemaine Clement, a la Flight of the Conchords) have a meet-cute at a party devoted to dressing as your favorite animal. Him, an eagle, and she, a shark. (Hence the title...betcha didn't see that one coming, hmmm?) Better yet, their eyes meet and sparks fly during a video game tournament! She's a social outcast with a heart of gold, like we all are, and it is her isolation that opens the movie (she is mocked at work by her coworkers). The movie is wrapped around Lily's devotion to Jarrod (Clement) and Jarrod's devotion to revenge over a highschool bully. And isn't that something that all of us nerdy folk can relate to? This is the sort of indie movie I can handle, and the kind of love story I can love.

Check out the movie trailer below:

I'm past the end of the Internet!

And onto some kind of new, better level of Stumble. It's like the repetitive sites were a boss battle and now I've found the hidden extra level where everything is gold coins and monsters that are weak to my favorite attacks!

This is what I found:



You can find more of this here.

I can't stop thinking about...

How much I want to play Brink. Okay, sure it's out, I have [some] money [I really shouldn't be spending on games right now]. But I'm kind of living in three places right now- one(1) my kind, loving, amazing parent's house in Portland, two(2) my kind, loving, amazing boyfriend's house in Bloomington (Illinois, because that Indiana one is pure silliness), and three(3) a storage unit (that is neither kind, nor loving, though it is amazingly full of stuff). My (read: our/his) Xbox is in the home in Bloomington, the PlayStation3 cuts my eyes (seriously, why do I need those lines to be that sharp?), and I run a Mac (and because I think PC Gaming is silliness unless you use a real controller, not a stupid mouse. I mean, come on).

(I clearly need to stop using so many parenthesizes. Sorry.)

Anyways, I'm not really a big fan of games that rely on my, um, shall we say... ability to aim at things while running using two sticks and a trigger. Seriously, unless it has some kind of pause-the-game-and-allow-me-to-aim system, as with the Fallout VATS system, I'm probably boned.

Though I may talk like a life-long gamer, I've owned exactly three systems on my own, five if you add joint holdings into the mix. When I was a kid, I had a GameBoy brick. That's the one before the GameBoy Advanced, and the GameBoy Color, and it looked like this:

How far we've come...

I played Kirby's Dreamland on it and was terrible at it. Really. I got stuck after level 2 almost every single time. I now own a Nintendo DS, which is made infinitely cooler by the TriForce on it, and it's tiny little Mario carrying case.

It's okay for you to be as jealous as you are right now.

Again, as a child I owned a N64 with my brother (he now fully owns it, and that boyfriend I was talking about earlier bought me one of my own), and played Mario Kart, GoldenEye 007, and Quest64 (it is really called that). Extra points to anyone who can tell me in 100 words or less how lame Quest64 is. Plus the fact that I never really learned to play any of those games. I now also co-own an Xbox 360, the only Microsoft product I can say I'm proud to be "co-owner" of.

The number of games I've actually played all the way through is quite slim. But I say it does not matter. I can be a gamer no matter how many games I've played. And Brink has caught my attention. Sure, I'm excited for Portal 2, but people are done talking about it. Everyone has beat it, hacked it, and pushed it to the wayside, allowing me to be excited in my own little bubble. Now, however, all my favorite geeksites are all posting about Brink. Which, of course, means that I can not stop thinking about it. Even though I know very, very little about it.

Behold, the comic the two men who will be my best friends created, just for me (not true):

Mike Krahulik, you are my hero. Via Penny Arcade.

I find this very funny. You probably should, too.

In other news, according to one of my friends, I've reached the end of the internet, proven by the fact that Stumble keeps giving me the same pages. This is the last original Stumble I got, and I'm addicted. Seriously. I downloaded the mp3, and have been listening on repeat.



His stuff is pretty awesome.