{"id":4117,"date":"2007-11-11T09:08:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/11\/the-nerd-handbook\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T08:00:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T16:00:04","slug":"the-nerd-handbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/11\/the-nerd-handbook\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nerd Handbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5773,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.randsinrepose.com\\\/archives\\\/2007\\\/11\\\/11\\\/the_nerd_handbook.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20131029030007\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.randsinrepose.com\\\/archives\\\/2007\\\/11\\\/11\\\/the_nerd_handbook.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/randsinrepose.com\\\/archives\\\/2007\\\/11\\\/11\\\/the_nerd_handbook.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 11:33:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 16:48:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 07:20:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 07:20:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>While as with any broad overview of a particular genus or species, there is plenty of room for small or even large variations at the individual level (I myself lean a bit more towards the social side of the scale than what&#8217;s described here, though that is in large part the product of many years of practice), this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randsinrepose.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/11\/the_nerd_handbook.html\" title=\"Rands in Repose: The Nerd Handbook\">field guide to understanding the common nerd<\/a> should be required reading for many, many people, especially those involved with, living with, dating, or parenting nerds (also most varieties of dork or geek).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That\u2019s the nerd working on his project in his head.<\/p>\n<p>  It\u2019s unlikely that this project is a nerd\u2019s day job because his opinion regarding his job is, \u201cBeen there, done that\u201d. We\u2019ll explore the consequences of this seemingly short attention span in a bit, but for now this project is the other big thing your nerd is building and I\u2019ve no idea what is, but you should.<\/p>\n<p>  At some point, you, the nerd\u2019s companion, were the project. You were showered with the fire hose of attention because you were the bright and shiny new development in your nerd\u2019s life. There is also a chance that you\u2019re lucky and you are currently your nerd\u2019s project. Congrats. Don\u2019t get too comfortable because he\u2019ll move on, and, when that happens, you\u2019ll be wondering what happened to all the attention. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randsinrepose.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/11\/the_nerd_handbook.html\" title=\"Rands in Repose: The Nerd Handbook\">This handbook might help.<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While as with any broad overview of a particular genus or species, there is plenty of room for small or even large variations at the individual level, this field guide to understanding the common nerd should be required reading for many, many people, especially those involved with, living with, dating, or parenting nerds (also most varieties of dork or geek).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2034],"tags":[6,13],"class_list":["post-4117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","tag-humor","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}