On Being a Nerd: A Riddle

I come once a moon, not always at full.
Sick as I make you, you're not really ill.
I attack all the ladies and torture their men.
Oft' as I leave you, I come back again.
I don't take the pregnant, the young or the old.
Warped as I make you, you will soon unfold.
I ruin your week and make you feel lazy.
Mad as I make you, you's not really crazy.

What am I?
Leave your guesses on the comment page.

Evidence of Nerdishness

Taking part in the National Novel Writing Month!!!!
Being more comfortable dodging Klingons, Storm Troopers and pirates at a con, than making small talk at a company cocktail party
Writing angsty middle-school poetry with funky line breaks
While taking notes, using the delta symbol as shorthand for the word "change"
Using the British spellings for words like grey and theatre
Dressing up as a character from a children's fantasy novel
Knowing there is a battle going on between ninjas and pirates
Having an opinion on the battle between ninjas and pirates
Adding the suffix "ishness" to nouns
Blogging

Literary (well, sort of) Quotes

Puddleglum (The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis): “But there's one thing more to be said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things - trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”
Dallas Willard: "We should, to begin with, think that God leads a very interesting life, and that he is full of joy. Undoubtedly he is the most joyous being in the universe....he is simply one great inexhaustible and eternal experience of all that is good and true and beautiful and right. This is what we must think of when we hear theologians and philosophers speak of him as a perfect being. This is his life."
Phil Baker: "If you're in the current of God, it's amazing how prayer becomes just a part of the breathing apparatus."
Charles Simeon: "The truth is not in the middle and not in one extreme, but in both extremes. Sometimes I am a high Calvinist, and at other times a low Armenian. So that if extremes will please you, I am your man. Only remember, it's not one extreme that we are to go to, but both extremes."
C.S. Lewis: "Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
From Pride and Prejudice: "Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?"
From Jane Eyre: "My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. l have a rosy sky, and a green flowery Eden in my brain; but without, I am perfectly aware, lies at my feet a rough tract to travel, and around me gather black tempests to encounter."
From Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail: "Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."

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Friday, July 4, 2008

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