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POPSCooking With My Punk Ass Little Sister...
Then she left home and became a woman while I married a cattle rancher and said goodbye, essentially forever, to my beloved repertoire of gourmet cuisine. Betsy graduated from college, lived in various big cities, and now resides in Austin, Texas with her tech-nerd husband, Matt, where she spends her days cooking all the food snob dishes I so unselfishly taught her to make so many years ago. And she calls me as she’s eating them and makes me cry real tears. Then I go fry up another pork chop and get over myself. Come along with Betsy and me as we make one of our favorites: Penne a la Betsy, as I like to call it. It’s simple, flavorful, and whomever you make it for will pledge their eternal admiration and support for you. And they’ll kiss your big toe.The Cast of Characters: Shrimp, Penne (or other short pasta), butter, olive oil, onion, garlic, tomato sauce, heavy cream, parsley, basil, salt, and pepper. Brace yourselves, people. Your life’s about the change for the better. And y
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POPSThe Battle for Facebook A very intriguing profile of the early days of Facebook. I suppose if my college roommates started a $15 billion company I'd be going after a piece of the pie, or at least begging for crumbs. Ironically, I saw my college roommates this weekend. What did we do after the party? Post the photo on Facebook. Help this guy get richer. Claire Hoffman writes great stories. If you enjoy this read her (non-flattering) profile of Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis. http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-gonewild32aug06,1,4548814.story?page=1
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POPSThe Nerd Girls: Smart, Techie and Feminine
"These girl geeks aren't social misfits; their identities don't hinge on outsider status. They may love all things sci-tech, but first and foremost they are girls—and they've made that part of their appeal...However they choose to geek out, they consciously tweak the two chief archetypes of geeks: that they're unattractive outcasts, and that they're male. " "Forty years ago women made up just 3 percent of science and engineering jobs; now they make up about 20 percent. That sounds promising, until you consider that women earn 56 percent of the degrees in those fields. A recent Center for Work-Life Policy study found that 52 percent of women leave those jobs, with 63 percent saying they experienced workplace harassment and more than half believing they needed to "act like a man" in order to succeed. In the past, women dealt with that reality in two ways: some buried their femininity, while others simply gave up their techie interests to appear more feminine." Go, girls!
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POPSRIM BlackBerry 9000 vs. Apple iPhone The sleek new BlackBerry is out and the nerds, geeks, AND SUPER MODELS are eating it up. If a super model ever did eat anything would it be a berry over an apple? Well, that is “the right question” Mr. iRobot IT nerd type guy sporting his/her older model BlackBerry Perl. It’s time to get BOLD!
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POPSsmart kids vs popular kids
Partly because teenagers are still half children, and many children are just intrinsically cruel. Some torture nerds for the same reason they pull the legs off spiders. Before you develop a conscience, torture is amusing.Another reason kids persecute nerds is to make themselves feel better.But I think the main reason is that it's part of the mechanism of popularity. Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness. It's much more about alliances. To become more popular, you need to be constantly doing things that bring you close to other popular people, and nothing brings people closer than a common enemy. It's important for nerds to realize that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if you look, you can see beyond it even while you're still in it.<< Interesting read.Written by someone who was considered to be a "nerd" at school.
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POPSThe meaning of the eyeglass push-up I pretty much do the Clark Kent way - method number 3. It's easy and efficient. I don't know, I also think it looks pretty nerdy but that's just me. I'm a nerd. I found this site using Stumbleupon and now I think I am hooked!
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POPSGlasses don't make you a nerd Or geek - There's more to it... There was another article a few months ago that studied myopia amongst Asian students, due to rates that are seen as high. It was suggested there that myopia, rather than being inherited, was a result of lack of exposure to light. Students with myopia didn't tend to get out as much. Science can have have trouble qualifying things that are a result of more than one reason. experiments that support or prove theories, are better if only one thing can change. They are missing the point. The reason geeks, and nerds don't 'socialize', or 'get enough light' isn't because they are unsociable, but perhaps because they 'travel' in a different social circle, which is cyber, and global, through the internet. Perhaps they can develop terminal screens that emit the wavelengths of solar radiation so chronic computer users avoid developing myopia.
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POPSBrio makes baby nerd toys! I saw a article about these at http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/security/dmorrill/archives/essential-toys-for-your-kids-23139 So I went to Brio and sure enough. Theres a email one and a network and others. Im goona get em for me! Im still just a kid.
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