DaveLoven

While you may not realize it, I sometimes spend more time trying to find a suitable title than I do actually writing something.

This week has been absolutely insane. Work is finally starting to pick up again which is certainly an answer to prayer. Praise Jesus! As a result as my being busier at work, by ability to interact with the outside world has decreased considerably. If you were to graph these two separate, but interconnected systems, you would no doubt be left with something resembling a supply and demand curve. I have completely disregarded something important…and now I don’t know how to respond.

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In other news. Yesterday was absolutely awesome. It should come as no surprise that I am a nerd. As such, I very much enjoy building computers, and yesterday I got to build two and a server. It was fantastic. I spent most of last week researching different RAID options and finally settled on RAID 1+0 for performance and redundancy. Plus your data can survive 2 disc failures…yes please.

I had never built a server before and it turned out to be much easier than I ever imagined it would be. As I am writing this, my computer that I built for myself is formatting hard drives. It is nearly complete and I cannot wait to try out the huge friggin graphics card.

Because I am an uber-nerd, I like to post pictures of my nerdiness and pretend you actually care. As always, things of this nature can be found on my flickr page.

Also, if you do not already have plans for the 4th…you’re welcome to come over…there will probably be lots of people you don’t know…but it’ll be fun…promise.

~Dave

Seems like I’ve been running from your trenchant memory

It would appear as though my weekends are becoming exponentially prodigious. Friday and Sunday buttressed cleverly the enigmatic epoch that has come to be known in the Gregorian calendar as Saturday.

Saturdays are generally especially fulfilling due to increased exposure to Kalon, and this past one was slightly different. I circumvented the typical evening religious gathering and replaced it instead with an event described to me as “…square dancing only a little less “hick” – the music is more English country (fiddle, bass, hammered dulcimer, guitar).”

How could I say no to that?

I realize participating in guided choreography, accompanied by a hammered dulcimer sounds impossible. I thought so too at first, but now I can safely say that it is not only possible, it is actually enjoyable. Although judging from the crowd present at the event, it may be something only white people do in a vain attempt to convince themselves that they can indeed dance.

While my performance was less than mediocre, it may be something I would willingly subject myself to should the opportunity ever present itself again.

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Due to [redacted], I am beginning to wonder if this is One Continuous Mistake.

~Dave

To feast upon the carcass of your mother

Thank goodness for the internet.

I came across an interesting/hilarious article entitled The Nerd Handbook which, if you know a nerd…or are one, I recommend you read it.

I read it as a guide for girls who find themselves in a relationship with a nerd, although there are plenty of girl nerds out there. While the article doesn’t describe perfectly, it comes pretty close.

Example:

Your nerd has built himself a cave…The Cave is also frustrating you because your impression is that it’s your nerd’s way of checking out, and you are, unfortunately, completely correct. A correctly designed Cave removes your nerd from the physical world and plants him firmly in a virtual one complete with all the toys he needs…

I have built myself a cave. I live alone is it is very easy to simply remove myself from the outside world. I do not own a TV, so the internet is really my only connection and I can easily filter content. It is perfect. I have everything I could ever need in my cave. I can have food delivered and could probably survive in my cave for…well, a long time anyways…without ever having to go outside. He goes on to say:

Your nerd loves toys and puzzles…It’s another juicy cliché to say that nerds love video games, but that’s not what they love. A video game is just one more system where your nerd’s job is to figure out the rules that define it, which will enable him to beat it. Yeah, we love to stare at games with a bazillion polygons, but we get the same high out of playing Bejeweled, getting our Night Elf to Level 70, or endlessly tinkering with a Rubik’s Cube…

YES! And anyone who knows me knows I LOVE PUZZLES in pretty much any form. My job is a puzzle. Movies are puzzles. Meeting new people is like a puzzle. Giant jigsaw puzzles are puzzles. I tend to find relationships and patterns in everything.

I am told I have a sense of humor and that I am witty (whatever that is supposed to mean). I tend to believe this is just people trying to be nice to me or whatever, but if there is any truth to these statements, he explains further:

Nerds are [expletive deleted] funny…Humor is an intellectual puzzle, “How can this particular set of esoteric trivia be constructed to maximize hilarity as quickly as possible?” Your nerd listens hard to recognize humor potential and when he hears it, he furiously scours his mind to find relevant content from his experience so he can get the funny out as quickly as possible.

I thought it was a well written example of how my, and perhaps millions of other nerd’s minds work. You really should read the whole article, it’s fantastic.

I have been told that my social skills are improving. On one hand, I am terrified that I will actually form relationships with new people and how those relationships will affect my life. On the other hand, it might actually be good for me to make friends with new people.

Baby steps I guess.

~Dave