I shamelessly confess an abiding affection for most MTV reality shows. Okay, maybe there’s a little shame. And maybe I find the single-camera Laguna Beach shows to be reprehensible and vomit-inducing.<\/p>\n
But Real World\/Road Rules Challenge? Making the Band 3? Made? Good stuff, Maynard.<\/p>\n
I caught part of a recent episode of Pimp My Ride that should be of interest to us geek folk, as the pimpee in question is a bit of a hardcore nerd, and so the team went for a tricked-out UFO-inspired design, including crop circle seat covers and a laser-activated starter. They even threw in a robot. The pictures<\/a> are pretty sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I shamelessly confess an abiding affection for most MTV reality shows. Okay, maybe there’s a little shame. And maybe I find the single-camera Laguna Beach shows to be reprehensible and vomit-inducing. But Real World\/Road Rules Challenge? Making the Band 3? Made? Good stuff, Maynard. I caught part of a recent episode of Pimp My Ride […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}