New direction

Once again, I have revamped my blog. I know, it seems like I can never decide what I want to do with this stupid thing, but I had a moment of (momentary?) inspiration. Obviously, the whole "constancy" thing wasn't working out for me. I suppose when I mandate myself to a certain habit, it only breeds failure and disappointment. My most recent post, however, reminded me of how much of a nerd I really am and how amusing a blog about my nerd-dom and other's nerd-dom might potentially be. I then had to decide on a suitably nerdy title for the blog. As you might have guessed, it didn't take much nerd power to come up with a good one. What better place for me to turn than to the lyric language of Latin. Some of you may be familiar with the phrase "fortune favors the bold," which is rendered in Latin as "Fortes iuvat fortuna." So, for a blog about nerds and nerdiness all I had to do was subtract "the bold" and add my new coinage for "the nerds." Thus, my new title.

I will be making no promises about the consistency or regularity of this site. Apparently, that doesn't work for me. I will promise some amusing (or occasionally not-so-amusing) posts about my own nerd-dom and greater nerd-dom in general. That's the best I can do.

Immunity Idol

So I was finally motivated to write a blog post after many months parched by the desert of graduate school. Unfortunately, grad school tends to suck any sort of normalness out of life.

I recently made a purchase of a particular collectible (aka Big-boy toy) I had been eyeing for quite a while. Many of you may recognize this collectible as a replica of the famous idol from the beginning of perhaps the greatest movie ever, Raiders of the Lost Ark. The idol is sculpted into a small pen/pencil holder for the perfect desk accessory. As I am always on the lookout for items to put in my future classroom, how could I pass up a pencil cup that would call to mind my favorite movie every day? Obviously I couldn't.

Unfortunately, there was a bit of a problem with the idol. If you look closely, there is a child coming out of the its nether regions, which thus labels the figurine as a fertility idol. Right now, however, we do not want anything in our house with the name "fertility" in any way attached to it. My desire for the item won out though when we came up with a suitable solution. The solution: The idol will forever be known in our house as an immunity idol, not a fertility idol. How better to ward off unwanted fertility by making sure that the idol represents everything opposed to fertility? So, from now on it's an immunity idol, and the child down there is just playing hide and seek.