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Last night’s trivia was a wash, but I’m pleased that I have remembrance of certain obscure knowledge of like what brand of shoes the\u00a0Heaven’s Gate\u00a0<\/a>suicide cult wore when they 86’d themselves, and that Pietro Maximoff, AKA\u00a0Quicksilver, is the brother of the Scarlet Witch<\/a>.<\/p>\n But anyway, the story for the day isn’t about trivia and its disturbing regulars that consists of lolitas, but simply a behavioral observation of\u00a0dorks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now I like to consider myself both a jock and a nerd.\u00a0 I have a wealth of knowledge when it comes to sports, and I like to do shit like go to the gym and physical stuff.\u00a0 On the other token, I work with computers all day long, and I gripe and bitch about technical details when it comes to the\u00a0failure that is Adobe products<\/a>.\u00a0 So I can comfortably\u00a0 state that I’m both a jock and a nerd; but there is one larger umbrella that I fit snugly into as well –\u00a0being a dork.<\/strong><\/p>\n Dorks do not discriminate class based on interests.\u00a0 Because as far as I’m concerned, although the interests between a jock and a nerd might be night and day, if they’re both dorks, they pretty much act the same anyway.<\/p>\n Here’s my rationale: I’m a jock, and every now and then I like to go to the batting cages.\u00a0 Because I do it strictly for leisurely purposes, I tend to hang out in the softball cages, where I don’t have to wear a dorky helmet, and I can go to town and probably hit a vast majority of the pitches with relative ease.\u00a0 But inevitably a\u00a0dork\u00a0<\/strong>will show up, and feel that without any sign of agitation or motivation, that they still need to assert their dominance, and prove to everyone that could\u00a0potentially<\/em>\u00a0watch, that they are better than them.\u00a0 The dork will go straight into the 70mph fast-pitch baseball cages with his $200 bat, carbon-fiber helmet, and\u00a0eye black\u00a0<\/a>on, and wail away on baseballs.\u00a0 If and when a sudden slump or incapability show up, it’s immediately the fault of the facility, the pitching machine, or the bat they are using.\u00a0 No compromise.\u00a0\u00a0Even in the face of Armageddon.<\/span><\/p>\n But I’m also a nerd: after trivia, my collective group decided to hang around for a little bit and play Rock Band while some of us sobered up a little bit to drive.\u00a0 I play guitar or bass, because I am a lousy singer, and I suck at the drums.\u00a0 Furthermore, I tend to stick around on the Medium level, since I don’t want to have to worry about shifting my fingers to reach a fifth button to strum. 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\n“Man, I think there’s something wrong with the drums.”
\n“Man, these aren’t the same kinds of sticks that I use.”
\n“Man, I can’t really hear my part.”<\/em><\/p>\n
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![Quicksilver, is the brother of the Scarlet Witch<\/a>.<\/p>\nBut anyway, the story for the day isn’t about trivia and its disturbing regulars that consists of lolitas, but simply a behavioral observation of\u00a0dorks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nNow I like to consider myself both a jock and a nerd.\u00a0 I have a wealth of knowledge when it comes to sports, and I like to do shit like go to the gym and physical stuff.\u00a0 On the other token, I work with computers all day long, and I gripe and bitch about technical details when it comes to the\u00a0failure that is Adobe products<\/a>.\u00a0 So I can comfortably\u00a0 state that I’m both a jock and a nerd; but there is one larger umbrella that I fit snugly into as well –\u00a0being a dork.<\/strong><\/p>\nDorks do not discriminate class based on interests.\u00a0 Because as far as I’m concerned, although the interests between a jock and a nerd might be night and day, if they’re both dorks, they pretty much act the same anyway.<\/p>\nHere’s my rationale: I’m a jock, and every now and then I like to go to the batting cages.\u00a0 Because I do it strictly for leisurely purposes, I tend to hang out in the softball cages, where I don’t have to wear a dorky helmet, and I can go to town and probably hit a vast majority of the pitches with relative ease.\u00a0 But inevitably a\u00a0dork\u00a0<\/strong>will show up, and feel that without any sign of agitation or motivation, that they still need to assert their dominance, and prove to everyone that could\u00a0potentially<\/em>\u00a0watch, that they are better than them.\u00a0 The dork will go straight into the 70mph fast-pitch baseball cages with his $200 bat, carbon-fiber helmet, and\u00a0eye black\u00a0<\/a>on, and wail away on baseballs.\u00a0 If and when a sudden slump or incapability show up, it’s immediately the fault of the facility, the pitching machine, or the bat they are using.\u00a0 No compromise.\u00a0\u00a0Even in the face of Armageddon.<\/span><\/p>\nBut I’m also a nerd: after trivia, my collective group decided to hang around for a little bit and play Rock Band while some of us sobered up a little bit to drive.\u00a0 I play guitar or bass, because I am a lousy singer, and I suck at the drums.\u00a0 Furthermore, I tend to stick around on the Medium level, since I don’t want to have to worry about shifting my fingers to reach a fifth button to strum. 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![failure that is Adobe products<\/a>.\u00a0 So I can comfortably\u00a0 state that I’m both a jock and a nerd; but there is one larger umbrella that I fit snugly into as well –\u00a0being a dork.<\/strong><\/p>\nDorks do not discriminate class based on interests.\u00a0 Because as far as I’m concerned, although the interests between a jock and a nerd might be night and day, if they’re both dorks, they pretty much act the same anyway.<\/p>\nHere’s my rationale: I’m a jock, and every now and then I like to go to the batting cages.\u00a0 Because I do it strictly for leisurely purposes, I tend to hang out in the softball cages, where I don’t have to wear a dorky helmet, and I can go to town and probably hit a vast majority of the pitches with relative ease.\u00a0 But inevitably a\u00a0dork\u00a0<\/strong>will show up, and feel that without any sign of agitation or motivation, that they still need to assert their dominance, and prove to everyone that could\u00a0potentially<\/em>\u00a0watch, that they are better than them.\u00a0 The dork will go straight into the 70mph fast-pitch baseball cages with his $200 bat, carbon-fiber helmet, and\u00a0eye black\u00a0<\/a>on, and wail away on baseballs.\u00a0 If and when a sudden slump or incapability show up, it’s immediately the fault of the facility, the pitching machine, or the bat they are using.\u00a0 No compromise.\u00a0\u00a0Even in the face of Armageddon.<\/span><\/p>\nBut I’m also a nerd: after trivia, my collective group decided to hang around for a little bit and play Rock Band while some of us sobered up a little bit to drive.\u00a0 I play guitar or bass, because I am a lousy singer, and I suck at the drums.\u00a0 Furthermore, I tend to stick around on the Medium level, since I don’t want to have to worry about shifting my fingers to reach a fifth button to strum. 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![eye black\u00a0<\/a>on, and wail away on baseballs.\u00a0 If and when a sudden slump or incapability show up, it’s immediately the fault of the facility, the pitching machine, or the bat they are using.\u00a0 No compromise.\u00a0\u00a0Even in the face of Armageddon.<\/span><\/p>\nBut I’m also a nerd: after trivia, my collective group decided to hang around for a little bit and play Rock Band while some of us sobered up a little bit to drive.\u00a0 I play guitar or bass, because I am a lousy singer, and I suck at the drums.\u00a0 Furthermore, I tend to stick around on the Medium level, since I don’t want to have to worry about shifting my fingers to reach a fifth button to strum. Not to mention that I can pretty much pick up a video game guitar control and play with relative competence no matter what the circumstances.<\/p>\nPlaying in front of a nerd bar full of nerds, it’s only a matter of time before the\u00a0dork(s) decide to intrude\u00a0<\/a>on our leisure party, and since we’re nice people, we let the dork take the drums.\u00a0 Without paying attention to the song choice, he promptly puts his difficulty onto\u00a0EXPERT<\/strong>, while the rest of us settle into our usual comfort zones.<\/p>\nDuran Duran’s\u00a0Rio\u00a0<\/em>has never sounded so poorly in my entire life.\u00a0 Apparently on\u00a0EXPERT<\/strong>, Rio’s drum part is insanely difficult, and requires some good dexterity to play, none of which the dork had.\u00a0 While the song proceeded to sound like garbage due to the fact that there were no drums, the dork took repeated breaks, and began flexing his arms, and shaking his wrists.<\/p>\n“Man, I should have warmed up.”\n“Man, I think there’s something wrong with the drums.”\n“Man, these aren’t the same kinds of sticks that I use.”\n“Man, I can’t really hear my part.”<\/em><\/p>\nOf course it was, dork.\u00a0 Of course it was.<\/p>\nUnfortunately,\u00a0I am also a dork<\/strong>.\u00a0 Because although I can’t think of a concise example right at the moment, I’m pretty sure that I’ve exhibited such chauvinistic and masochistic behavior to my fellow dorks at some point in my life.\u00a0 I’m sure anyone reading this who knows me could probably remind me of an instance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night’s trivia was a wash, but I’m pleased that I have remembrance of certain obscure knowledge of like what brand of shoes the\u00a0Heaven’s Gate\u00a0suicide cult wore when they 86’d themselves, and that Pietro Maximoff, AKA\u00a0Quicksilver, is the brother of the Scarlet Witch. But anyway, the story for the day isn’t about trivia and its … Continue reading Behavioral studies of dorks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,83,15,19],"class_list":["post-26381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-geeks","tag-observations","tag-og","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26383,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26381\/revisions\/26383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/baseball-insider\/alfredoamezaga.JPG\"){kind=link}
![dork(s) decide to intrude\u00a0<\/a>on our leisure party, and since we’re nice people, we let the dork take the drums.\u00a0 Without paying attention to the song choice, he promptly puts his difficulty onto\u00a0EXPERT<\/strong>, while the rest of us settle into our usual comfort zones.<\/p>\nDuran Duran’s\u00a0Rio\u00a0<\/em>has never sounded so poorly in my entire life.\u00a0 Apparently on\u00a0EXPERT<\/strong>, Rio’s drum part is insanely difficult, and requires some good dexterity to play, none of which the dork had.\u00a0 While the song proceeded to sound like garbage due to the fact that there were no drums, the dork took repeated breaks, and began flexing his arms, and shaking his wrists.<\/p>\n“Man, I should have warmed up.”\n“Man, I think there’s something wrong with the drums.”\n“Man, these aren’t the same kinds of sticks that I use.”\n“Man, I can’t really hear my part.”<\/em><\/p>\nOf course it was, dork.\u00a0 Of course it was.<\/p>\nUnfortunately,\u00a0I am also a dork<\/strong>.\u00a0 Because although I can’t think of a concise example right at the moment, I’m pretty sure that I’ve exhibited such chauvinistic and masochistic behavior to my fellow dorks at some point in my life.\u00a0 I’m sure anyone reading this who knows me could probably remind me of an instance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night’s trivia was a wash, but I’m pleased that I have remembrance of certain obscure knowledge of like what brand of shoes the\u00a0Heaven’s Gate\u00a0suicide cult wore when they 86’d themselves, and that Pietro Maximoff, AKA\u00a0Quicksilver, is the brother of the Scarlet Witch. But anyway, the story for the day isn’t about trivia and its … Continue reading Behavioral studies of dorks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,83,15,19],"class_list":["post-26381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-geeks","tag-observations","tag-og","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26383,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26381\/revisions\/26383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/wirelessmedia.ign.com\/wireless\/image\/article\/681\/681377\/blog-images-20070827015033281.jpg\"){kind=link}