Comments for Bark: A Blog of Literature, Culture, and Art http://thebarking.com Sat, 26 May 2012 23:48:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on You Are A Nerd by Andrew http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForBark/~3/V1rUMTGgZ8Y/ Andrew Sat, 26 May 2012 23:48:55 +0000 http://thebarking.com/?p=21710#comment-39346 This may be naive but I don't think there's a non-vegetative person in the world who isn't deeply into something. There are work nerds who just do their job, drug nerds who haven't been sober in many years, and lazy nerds who obsess about doing the least about of work possible, but I think there must be something that everyone finds to obsess over. Unless one has perfectly balanced all aspects of her life and freed herself from material desires. But I would probably still call her a zen nerd. This may be naive but I don’t think there’s a non-vegetative person in the world who isn’t deeply into something. There are work nerds who just do their job, drug nerds who haven’t been sober in many years, and lazy nerds who obsess about doing the least about of work possible, but I think there must be something that everyone finds to obsess over. Unless one has perfectly balanced all aspects of her life and freed herself from material desires. But I would probably still call her a zen nerd.

]]> http://thebarking.com/2012/05/you-are-a-nerd/comment-page-1/#comment-39346 Comment on You Are A Nerd by Andrew http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForBark/~3/6RofcvMTJac/ Andrew Sat, 26 May 2012 23:31:24 +0000 http://thebarking.com/?p=21710#comment-39345 My theory is that the key to the nerd/cool relationship is that your coolness is directly linked to how much you can draw people into your own nerdiness and get them to love it. The obnoxious, self-serious jerk who rants about his particular interest without a clue to the engagement of around him is a terrible nerd. But someone who can draw people in and through her sincerity show them what nerdiness can do for them is "cool"--or maybe just a better conversationalist. However, I will maintain that conversational skills are 100% of what makes someone cool. But what makes the difference between a detached artsy cool instead or a sweet bubbly cool (maybe that's too dork to be cool) ? I dunno, but if I keep going here I won't be able to write about it for next week. My theory is that the key to the nerd/cool relationship is that your coolness is directly linked to how much you can draw people into your own nerdiness and get them to love it.

The obnoxious, self-serious jerk who rants about his particular interest without a clue to the engagement of around him is a terrible nerd. But someone who can draw people in and through her sincerity show them what nerdiness can do for them is “cool”–or maybe just a better conversationalist. However, I will maintain that conversational skills are 100% of what makes someone cool. But what makes the difference between a detached artsy cool instead or a sweet bubbly cool (maybe that’s too dork to be cool) ? I dunno, but if I keep going here I won’t be able to write about it for next week.

]]> http://thebarking.com/2012/05/you-are-a-nerd/comment-page-1/#comment-39345 Comment on What You Don’t Know About How Others See You by yasmine chatila http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForBark/~3/_Nb1qHmecF4/ yasmine chatila Fri, 25 May 2012 22:14:27 +0000 http://thebarking.com/?p=13260#comment-39266 Hi, If you like Stolen Moments check out my new blog http://foam.org/foam-blog/2012/may/stolen-moments Thanks for the post and all the interesting comments Yasmine Hi,
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]]> http://thebarking.com/2012/05/you-are-a-nerd/comment-page-1/#comment-39236 Comment on You Are A Nerd by Melissa http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForBark/~3/2tmhCR5gDU0/ Melissa Fri, 25 May 2012 17:24:03 +0000 http://thebarking.com/?p=21710#comment-39229 Okay, so I feel like Sam's last sentence, "I'm wondering how cool and nerd come together and reinforce each other, and/or when cool, arising from nerd, becomes dominant" is designed to be a working example of nerdiness juxtaposed against the cool pop culture reference to Patti Smith. Are you trying to exemplify what being a cool nerd looks like, Sam?! Okay, so I feel like Sam’s last sentence, “I’m wondering how cool and nerd come together and reinforce each other, and/or when cool, arising from nerd, becomes dominant” is designed to be a working example of nerdiness juxtaposed against the cool pop culture reference to Patti Smith. Are you trying to exemplify what being a cool nerd looks like, Sam?!

]]> http://thebarking.com/2012/05/you-are-a-nerd/comment-page-1/#comment-39229 Comment on You Are A Nerd by Melissa http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForBark/~3/NU9H-KTvii4/ Melissa Fri, 25 May 2012 17:23:10 +0000 http://thebarking.com/?p=21710#comment-39228 "...every last person is a nerd. Everyone." I don't know that I agree. Nerd implies a level of (often intellectual?) engagement with a certain topic that I can look around and see people who don't have any one thing that they care really deeply about knowing every detail about. Do I think those people are insanely boring? Sure. But I'm saying they exist. I like the sentence "all it takes to be a nerd is time and obsession," and I like the idea that health & fitness can be pretty nerdy, when you think about it, but I'm still thinking there are people who have no hobbies/pursuits/obsessions that could come anywhere near to worthy of being deemed "nerdy." Lastly, I prefer nerd to geek. Is this a regional thing? Maybe that's just me. “…every last person is a nerd. Everyone.” I don’t know that I agree. Nerd implies a level of (often intellectual?) engagement with a certain topic that I can look around and see people who don’t have any one thing that they care really deeply about knowing every detail about. Do I think those people are insanely boring? Sure. But I’m saying they exist. I like the sentence “all it takes to be a nerd is time and obsession,” and I like the idea that health & fitness can be pretty nerdy, when you think about it, but I’m still thinking there are people who have no hobbies/pursuits/obsessions that could come anywhere near to worthy of being deemed “nerdy.”

Lastly, I prefer nerd to geek. Is this a regional thing? Maybe that’s just me.

]]> http://thebarking.com/2012/05/you-are-a-nerd/comment-page-1/#comment-39228 Comment on One Dark Food Fight by Melissa http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForBark/~3/UqII6Q7sfBA/ Melissa Fri, 25 May 2012 15:49:04 +0000 http://thebarking.com/?p=21723#comment-39209 Sword fighting with baguettes= winning. Sword fighting with baguettes= winning.

]]> http://thebarking.com/2012/05/one-dark-food-fight/comment-page-1/#comment-39209 Comment on All I Really Need to Know I Learned From F. Scott Fitzgerald by Mother of God, Y’all. Leo is Jay Gatsby. | Bark: A Blog of Literature, Culture, and Art http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForBark/~3/RvWPO5HwUGQ/ Mother of God, Y’all. Leo is Jay Gatsby. | Bark: A Blog of Literature, Culture, and Art Fri, 25 May 2012 13:00:37 +0000 http://thebarking.com/?p=21375#comment-39194 [...] for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby (by three different people, no less), I first thought of Casey Patrick’s Bark post about how much she loves the crap out of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I do not blame her. Mr. Fitzgerald is the name of the ferret I don’t have yet. I have planned [...] [...] for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby (by three different people, no less), I first thought of Casey Patrick’s Bark post about how much she loves the crap out of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I do not blame her. Mr. Fitzgerald is the name of the ferret I don’t have yet. I have planned [...]

]]> http://thebarking.com/2012/05/all-i-really-need-to-know-i-learned-from-f-scott-fitzgerald/comment-page-1/#comment-39194 Comment on You Are A Nerd by Asa Maria Bradley http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForBark/~3/zaMLJ3cPEJg/ Asa Maria Bradley Fri, 25 May 2012 03:52:55 +0000 http://thebarking.com/?p=21710#comment-39168 Nerds become cool when they find other nerds who are geeky about the same stuff as them. So, probably college. :-) Nerds become cool when they find other nerds who are geeky about the same stuff as them. So, probably college. :-)

]]> http://thebarking.com/2012/05/you-are-a-nerd/comment-page-1/#comment-39168 Comment on You Are A Nerd by leyna krow http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForBark/~3/Fb93kA17q8s/ leyna krow Thu, 24 May 2012 23:27:55 +0000 http://thebarking.com/?p=21710#comment-39157 It's true; reading is for nerds. As is blogging. And breathing. And sleeping. Don't forget it. It’s true; reading is for nerds. As is blogging. And breathing. And sleeping. Don’t forget it.

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