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Tag: nerd

  • pennerd

    Oh dear, I think I’m turning into a fountain pen nerd. I’ve dug out my old Parker and Sheaffer pens, and with my Rotring 600s, I’ll soon be needing a pocket protector. I’ve even found a couple of inks I like: Sheaffer Turquoise, and Waterman Havana.

    I like fountain pens. They’re cranky, unreliable, antiquated, and need constant attention and refilling. A bit like myself, I suppose …

  • Formerly Known As Renaissance Nerd …

    I guess I can pull this résumé from toronto.craigslist.org, then:

    • Can (& currently does) build high performance web applications with Unix, Apache, Perl and various RDBMS systems.
    • Linux user for nearly 10 years.
    • Knows his way around pre-press systems, and especially skilled in PostScript hacking.
    • Comfortable with SGML, HTML and XML. Not afraid to use CSS2, JavaScript or XSLT, either.
    • Knows lots of obscure markup languages, like TeX, troff and proprietary publishing languages.
    • Skilled book typesetter, having typeset dictionaries and thesauruses.
    • Obscenely large English vocabulary.
    • Experienced wind farm builder.
    • Skilled numeric data analyst.
    • Can build data logging and instrumentation systems, especially remote, solar-powered systems.
    • Director of a wind energy co-op.
    • Experienced free-lance journalist.
    • Confident public speaker.
    • Mechanical engineering degree, with a master’s in innovation theory.
    • More letters after my name than in it.
    • Cycling and transportation activist.
    • Sometime union shop steward.
    • Well-read and witty.