{"id":3897,"date":"2006-09-25T19:24:47","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T02:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/09\/25\/white-and-nerdy\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:12:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:12:38","slug":"white-and-nerdy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/09\/25\/white-and-nerdy\/","title":{"rendered":"White and Nerdy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new theme song, courtesy of Weird Al Yankovic:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Weird Al&quot; Yankovic - White &amp; Nerdy (Official Music Video)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N9qYF9DZPdw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lyrics under the cut&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  They see me mowin&#8217;<br>\n  My front lawn<br>\n  I know they&#8217;re all thinking I&#8217;m so white and nerdy<br>\n  Think I&#8217;m just too white and nerdy<br>\n  Think I&#8217;m just too white and nerdy<br>\n  Can&#8217;t you see I&#8217;m white and nerdy?<br>\n  Look at me, I&#8217;m white and nerdy<br>\n  I wanna roll with<br>\n  The gangstas<br>\n  But so far they all think I&#8217;m too white and nerdy<br>\n  Think I&#8217;m just too white and nerdy<br>\n  Think I&#8217;m just too white and nerdy<br>\n  I&#8217;m just too white and nerdy.<br>\n  Really really white and nerdy.<\/p>\n<p>  First in my class here at MIT<br>\n  Got skills, I&#8217;m a champion at D&amp;D<br>\n  MC Escher &#8211; that&#8217;s my favorite MC<br>\n  Keep your 40, I&#8217;ll just have an Earl Grey tea<br>\n  My rims never spin, to the contrary<br>\n  You&#8217;ll find that they&#8217;re quite stationary<br>\n  All of my action figures are cherry<br>\n  Steven Hawking&#8217;s in my library<br>\n  My MySpace page is all totally pimped out<br>\n  Got people beggin&#8217; for my top eight spaces<br>\n  Yo, I know pi to a thousand places<br>\n  Ain&#8217;t got no grills but I still wear braces<br>\n  I order all of my sandwiches with mayonnaise<br>\n  I&#8217;m a whiz at Minesweeper &#8211; I could play for days<br>\n  Once you see my sweet moves you&#8217;re gonna stay amazed<br>\n  My fingers&#8217; movin&#8217; so fast I&#8217;ll set the place ablaze<br>\n  There&#8217;s no killer app I haven&#8217;t run<br>\n  At Pascal, well I&#8217;m number one<br>\n  Do vector calculus just for fun<br>\n  I ain&#8217;t got a gat but I got a soldering gun<br>\n  Happy Days is my favorite theme song<br>\n  I could sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong<br>\n  I&#8217;ll ace any trivia quiz you bring on<br>\n  I&#8217;m fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon<\/p>\n<p>  They see me roll on<br>\n  My Segway<br>\n  I know in my heart they think I&#8217;m white and nerdy<br>\n  Think I&#8217;m just too white and nerdy<br>\n  Think I&#8217;m just too white and nerdy<br>\n  Can&#8217;t you see I&#8217;m white and nerdy<br>\n  Look at me, I&#8217;m white and nerdy<br>\n  I&#8217;d like to roll with<br>\n  The gangstas<br>\n  Although it&#8217;s apparent I&#8217;m too white and nerdy<br>\n  Think I&#8217;m just too white and nerdy<br>\n  Think I&#8217;m just too white and nerdy<br>\n  I&#8217;m just too white and nerdy<br>\n  How&#8217;d I get so white and nerdy<\/p>\n<p>  I&#8217;ve been browsin&#8217;, inspectin&#8217;<br>\n  X-Men comics, you know I collect &#8217;em<br>\n  The pens in my pocket, I must protect &#8217;em<br>\n  My ergonomic keyboard never leaves me bored<br>\n  Shopping online for deals on some writable media<br>\n  I edit Wikipedia<br>\n  I memorized Holy Grail really well<br>\n  I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL<br>\n  I got a business doing websites<br>\n  When my friends need some code, who do they call?<br>\n  I do HTML for &#8217;em all<br>\n  Even made a homepage for my dog<br>\n  Yo, I got myself a fanny pack<br>\n  They were havin&#8217; a sale down at The Gap<br>\n  Spend my nights with a roll of bubble wrap<br>\n  Pop, pop, hope no one sees me<br>\n  Gettin&#8217; freaky<br>\n  I&#8217;m nerdy in the extreme<br>\n  And whiter than sour cream<br>\n  I was in AV Club and Glee Club and even the Chess Team<br>\n  Only question I<br>\n  Ever thought was hard<br>\n  Was do I like Kirk<br>\n  Or do I like Picard<br>\n  Spend every weekend at the Renaissance Fair<br>\n  Got my name on my underwear<\/p>\n<p>  They see me strollin&#8217;<br>\n  They laughin&#8217;<br>\n  And rollin&#8217; their eyes &#8217;cause I&#8217;m so white and nerdy<br>\n  Just because I&#8217;m white and nerdy<br>\n  Just because I&#8217;m white and nerdy<br>\n  All because I&#8217;m white and nerdy<br>\n  Holy cow, I&#8217;m white and nerdy<br>\n  I wanna bowl with<br>\n  The gangstas<br>\n  But, oh well, it&#8217;s obvious I&#8217;m white and nerdy<br>\n  Think I&#8217;m just too white and nerdy<br>\n  Think I&#8217;m just too white and nerdy<br>\n  I&#8217;m just too white and nerdy<br>\n  Look at me, I&#8217;m white and nerdy\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An instant Weird Al favorite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2034,2035],"tags":[6,80,2332],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}