So soon after Jason de Villa's entry on books that people might want to spend their holiday cheer on comes Brian Belen's entry on speedy reading for nerds on the go. Honestly, sometimes I don't know what's worse: that I spent more than half the day conducting surreptitious research on the books mentioned above, or that I never felt that I wasted any time in doing so.
All of which leads to the point of this entry, which I will get to after I raise an oddly intriguing tangential question: Nerds on the go? Are we talking about movement in hyperreality or via Segway? Honestly, with nerds, one is never quite sure...
Sorry. I just finished re-reading the Tad Williams novella, The Happiest Dead Boy in the World, (and if you're nodding at this point, you're probably also thinking that the Segway i2 looks like a really, really cool way to get around town, to which I would like to point out, it's a really cool way to get around Nerdlandia, but definitely not Metro Manila) and "nerds on the go" seems a concept as difficult to understand as "nerds on the make". But if one accepts the basic premise that even visually impaired, precociously intelligent, highly allergic individuals such as myself can find true love, then reconciling the aforementioned concepts should be no problem, as would enjoying the short story mentioned above, which can be found in Legends II: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy. Just thought I'd put my two cents worth in on books that should bring you good cheer this holiday season. Enjoy!
Photo Credits:
Picture of the Segway i2 comes courtesy of Segway.
Picture of the Segway i2 for Policemen comes courtesy of Segway.
Picture of Legends II: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy comes courtesy of Amazon.
5 comments:
To set the record straight, I didn't mention that the entry was for "nerds on the go". Methinks that was inferred from the post, though given the person who read it, I suppose it was the inevitable conclusion by the person who read it.
Did I just admit I was a nerd? Oh geez...
Anyway, it was quite an apropos way to segue into, er, the Segway.
Incidentally, I have seen a Segway (the older one) here in NY. It happened last year during the MTA strike that crippled public transport, which just goes to show the lengths that some people will go to just to get to work in this city.
Oh, and if you're interested in reading about the Segway - probably the closest us mere mortals will ever get to experiencing one - Steve Kemper has a book on it called Reinventing the Wheel. There are others out there, but that's the only one I can admit to having read myself.
Aw heck. I am a nerd!
Oops. I meant "the person who wrote it...by the person who read it."
Harumph.
Yes you are my friend, yes you are. May our nerdy tribe increase! :-)
i actually like some of the authors you mentioned, plus others not mentioned. does this mean i'm a nerd?
uh oh...
:D
hey! i just realized!! i can post comments again!!
...ok...er...feel free to ignore me here...
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