This is definitely not the post I wanted to make. I’m still writing a post on why home doesn’t feel like home anymore… but I was sidetracked with one heck of a fun night with the Nerds here in Cincinnati. Nerdworld 2007, as Argo so affectionately called it. And man… it was definitely a world of nerds (But I don’t think we should start calling it that… that’s kinda… nerdy… oh… wow… supressing… recursive… joke…). There was the obligatory video gaming (brought to you by the Wii), then some Mega Monopoly (yeap, I lost… and I’m going to say it again: I had no chance of winning when I started). But this time, things were a little different. We had a full blown discussion on technology and start-ups for a couple of hours. I’d say about 2 and a half hours or so on subjects from YouTube clips to DirectX 10 (which I was happily not a part of) to career choices. I think this might be the record time spent on talking about some serious topics. Alas, in the end, the entire thing just broke down to watching clips of SNL Digital Shorts and listening to Weird Al. Wow… okay, next paragraph.
I’m not sure why I didn’t see this before, but everyone, except me, are graduates of Miami; one with a Masters in CS, and the other three with BS’s in CS. I wonder how things would have turned out if I didn’t step out of state to go to UIUC and if I stuck with CS. I’m much to tired to even start thinking about the possibilities…
In all seriousness, though, I’m beginning to believe that there are even more people in my group of friends that would want to join me in my quest to shape the world. I guess I don’t really have to venture out too far to find the right “team”.
Lots to think and pray about. Hmm…
And yes. I’m trying to keep that daily post promise. It really freaking is 4:10 AM… oh geez. I swear… I made some horrible spelling and grammatical mistakes the first time through this post.