It’s probably been fairly obvious, but I’ve had some issues trying to figure out what to write about here.  Politics just aren’t cutting it for me - there are only so many ways to knock Obama, after all, or cringe about McCain.  So, I’ve been trying to broaden my horizons, reading different blogs like Stuff White People Like, and that’s when it hit me:

I’m not white!

It then hit me, slightly later, that I must have been horribly mistaken - I’m the whitest guy I know, after all.  However, none of the things that Stuff White People Like excited me; on the contrary, they were precisely the kinds of things I usually held against other people.  The people that liked that crap were precisely the kind of people that I spent some time being envious of before I realized that it’s okay to be a Nerd.

Then, something far more profound hit me… it was like a religious calling.

I must detail Stuff That Nerds Like.

Lord knows I’m certainly qualified for this role, or, at least, I think I am.  I’m certainly nerdy.  I’m excited about technology.  I have questionable social skills.  As proof of that, when talking to my mom about her new home in Oklahoma, she mentioned that there were rolling hills there.  I pointed out that I was already acquainted with midwestern hills, having been to Iowa and Nebraska.  She replied, “Oh, it’s much hillier than that - we’re even hillier than Missouri!”  Being a nerd with minimal social skills, I chose a completely inappropriate analogy, asking her (my mother), “Isn’t that like having bigger boobs than a 12-year old girl?”

Folks, I was made for this job.

Let’s get to work.

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