“Barry,” my cousin Mike said, “I think it’s time.” It was clear that my brother didn’t feel the same way, but he only shrugged, which Mike took as agreement. “Dave,” he said, giving the words as much gravity as he could muster, “Go get the dictionary.” I was nine years old, and a tag-along. I’d walked in on my brother telling a story about how—during school that morning—a girl he knew got her period in the middle of French class. And I laughed like the dickens. And then they called me on it. After I’d lugged the dictionary down from the spare room, Mike told me to look up the word period and read out the definition. “The end of a cycle, a series of events, or a single action?” “Keep going,” he said. “The full pause with which a sentence closes?” “Not that.” “An interval of geologic—“ “Gimme that!” He yanked the book towards him, read down the page, and pointed me towards the definition he’d found. Menstruation: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from pu...
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So it would look exactly the same, unless he came with ideas, too.
And speaking of nerds, I watched the Revenge of the Nerds the other day and noticed that this little human body model thing that was in Anthony Edwards room in the beginning of the movie is identical to a human body model thing that I have. And I yelled out "Oh my god! I HAVE that!" I think I may be a bit of a nerd myself.
That so did not answer your question of the day.
I would probably not change too much. I'd add some kind of localize theme, that reflected my mood, or perhaps the mood of the person visiting.
I would also have more detailed trackers so I could more easily stalk my lurkers.
Yes.
That is what I would do.
seriously though, I don't think McSweeney's antique-line-drawing-illustrations aesthetic will ever get old. So could I get an engraver instead?
I really like Katie's idea, but if I have to come up with my own idea, I think that a camera that follows my thesis around would have been appropriate for my blog. Or how about a technique that would make more people read my blog and send me heaps and heaps of money so I wouldn't need a job (you said your super nerd could do anything that could that I could imagine, right?)
(P.S. Who said I was waiting to get a little sumpin' sumpin'?)