Below you'll find all my writing tagged with the word the nerdery. The posts are listed in chronological order. Click the post title to read more.
After Sunday’s OxPod recording, my friend Tony made a crack about how I’m the busiest unemployed person he’s ever heard of. He’s right. Between being Super Aunt Jodi’s daycare service, class at The Loft, and, well, working freelance, this summer’s bout of unemployment has been the exact opposite of last summer’s bout. In fact, I [...]
Because I like irony or poetic justice or just bits of weird symmetry in my life, the marketing department at The Nerdery went to the very same Mexican restaurant today, on my last day, that we went to on my first day. It kind of happened by accident because none of us can make lunch [...]
Tonight, at the moment really, I’m covering an event we’re hosting at The Nerdery. It’s about building secure websites, and it’s pretty interesting. People were listening intently to the woman who is presenting, I was typing away trying to keep good notes. I looked up from my laptop and noticed half the crowd had turned [...]
There’s a reason you don’t hear about a lot of 30somethings pulling all nighters. It’s because we are old and need our sleep. Yesterday was the Web Challenge and it was a test of endurance. I’ve never been so cranky and annoyed for such good causes in my life. After about 18 hours of continuous [...]
Things have been a bit quiet here this week. That’s because I am saving it all up from tomorrow. See, tomorrow is our big Website Challenge event. It’s where we get 120 nerds in a room to build website for Minnesota nonprofits in 24 hours. Yep. I’ll be blogging for The Nerdery for the next [...]
You don’t know it’s insulting to confuse Star Wars with Star Trek You haven’t actually seen Star Wars or Star Trek You think Back to the Future is the best trilogy ever You didn’t watch Lord of the Rings Because you hated reading The Hobbit in 8th grade
I have a story that features Bruce Springsteen as a character. The story has been kinda bugging me lately, which means that it’s time to re-write it. That’s how I know when it’s time, the characters or the plot or something in the story start to worry the edges of mind. The story was inspired [...]
I’m having a tough time with the balance. I know it will come, but for the time being all this blah-blah-blogging is kind of sucking the life out of me. Or maybe it’s the winter doldrums striking early. Or maybe I just have nothing to say. All I know is that I’m having a tough [...]
“Look how important Lulu (a record by Trip Shakespeare) is to me. I’ve scrawled it on the back of my hand like I’m in 4th grade and don’t want to forget my math homework.” “Did you write that blog post about how much I like muffins yet?” “Do you want to read the latest issue [...]
I dreamt last night that my family made me move into you Aunt Tete’s house in Roseville. I am not sure where my aunt had gone, but all I know is that I was forced to live in her house. It made me very sad, having to live in Roseville. So sad, in fact, that [...]
I have become that blogger. That blogger we all hate more than we hate being called bloggers. At work I’ve become that blogger who whines about how nobody comments on her blog. I can’t believe it. Every time I say the words “nobody ever comments” my soul flies out out of my body and this [...]
Today my cubemate, Trip, sent me a link to a blog post called “40 ways to be a better blogger.” He’s so funny. I have a new teeny, tiny tree that I got for purchasing Wall-E on DVD. This just proves that robots are the best thing ever. The tree’s name is Schroeder. My other [...]
“You work from home on Wednesdays?” the TTHM asked, unable to control his shock and awe. “Yeah,” I said. “THAT’S NOT A JOB!” He shouted into his phone. “Yes it is,” I said. “I have to follow people on Twitter and read blogs, post stuff.” “I hope they pay you in stickers and not real [...]
I pushed my chair away from my desk and announced, “I’ve had it up to here. I’m going home.” “You do that,” my cellmate said. “Oh, by the way,” I said, throwing things into my bag. “Your nickname on my blog is gonna be Trip Shakespeare. Probably Trip for short.” He looked at me and [...]
Earlier this week I sat down with one of my new coworkers to talk about what he does and how things work at The Nerdery. He was very positive and upbeat. At one point I looked at him, cocked my head, and said, “You really like your job, don’t you?” He was visibly shocked by [...]
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