Stuff We Like This Week: October 16 Edition
Oct 16
In an effort to combat our occasional…okay, okay, near-constant negativity, we give you a regular feature full of nothing but love — Stuff We Like This Week. Appearing every Friday, SWLTW will recap the things that have set our little nerdly hearts aflame within the past seven days.
Don’t Let These Clone Wars…End
Oct 15You kids remember Bill Murray, right?
Whatever.
So I started watching Clone Wars again. I was on a plane this weekend and in my frantic attempt to leave the state, I threw the first two episodes of season 2 onto my iPod, thinking they’d make for a decent way to kill an hour or so of the flight.
They did. In fact, I was so engaged that while I didn’t finish the second episode on the plane, I did finish watching it later that night once I’d reached my destination.
What is it with this show, anyway?
Nerdly Advice Special: BATMANNERS
Oct 14[Nerds have questions, but nerds have to appear authoritative or risk losing their nerdy cred. In this case, people have questions for Emily Post’s Etiquette Daily that we have shamelessly borrowed, and they’re questions that only the Caped Crusader, the Dark Knight Detective, The Ebon Etiquetteer can handle.
That’s why, as a recurring feature on Alert Nerd, Jeff answers these conundrums anonymously. It’s like Ann Landers Miss Manners as written by Gorilla Grodd Batman. We call it Nerdly Advice BATMANNERS.]
The Language Of Logan
Oct 08Here at the Alert Nerd Sanitarium For People With English Degrees Institute for Language Studies, we like to stay on the cutting edge of the vernacular, such that we noun verbs, verb nouns and bandy about portmanteau words like ‘friendlationship’ with frightening* frequency.
Why? So that, on occasion, we can give you features like this, in which we will conjugate a pair of verbs that are sure to work their way into your geek vocab.
To Wolver
(To be the best there is at what one does**)
Rel. Wolverine – One who wolvers.
Present Tense:
I wolver
You wolver
He/She/It wolvers
We wolver
You wolver
They wolver
Preterite Tense:
I wolvered
You wolvered
He/She/It wolvered
We Wolvered
You wolvered
They wolvered
Participle – Wolvering (ex. future perfect participle – I/You/She/We/They will have been wolvering).
To Snikt (Irregular)
(1. To “pop one’s claws.” 2. To totally stab some guy.)
Present Tense:
I snikt
You snikt
He/She/It snikts
We snakt
You snikt
They snakt
Preterite Tense:
I snukt
You snukt
He/She/It snukt
We snukt
You snukt
They snukt
Use these words three times today, then they’re yours forever.
*to the layperson
** esp. if what one does is not very nice
Stuff We Like This Week: October 2 Edition
Oct 01
In an effort to combat our occasional…okay, okay, near-constant negativity, we give you a regular feature full of nothing but love — Stuff We Like This Week. Appearing every Friday, SWLTW will recap the things that have set our little nerdly hearts aflame within the past seven days.
WARNING: THIS WEEK’S POST CONTAINS SPOILERZ FOR THE MOVIE ZOMBIELAND. READ NO FURTHER IF YOU WISH TO REMAIN IN THE DARK!
[I’ve added a white-out to the spoiler text – you can highlight it if you want, or leave it alone and remain completely in the dark. Sorry, Sarah. I wasn’t using my braaaaaaaaaains. -c]
