{"id":645,"date":"2010-09-13T10:01:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T17:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=645"},"modified":"2010-09-13T10:01:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T17:01:36","slug":"nerd-badge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/13\/nerd-badge\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerd Badge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in high school, you could tell who the nerds were, because we had our <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TI-30\">TI-30 calculators<\/a> in pouches hanging from our belts. I don&#8217;t know what these kids today use for that purpose &#8212; I mean the purpose of identifying themselves as belonging to the nerd tribe, not doing math. But I&#8217;ve got a suggestion: they should try the <a href=\"http:\/\/ilovehandles.net\/products-page\/nano\/rock-band\/\">Rock Band<\/a>: it&#8217;s a strap that converts your iPod Nano into a wristwatch:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/nerdwatch.jpg\" alt=\"nerdy wristwatch\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sad thing? I kind of want one. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/db.tidbits.com\/\">TidBits<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in high school, you could tell who the nerds were, because we had our TI-30 calculators in pouches hanging from our belts. I don&#8217;t know what these kids today use for that purpose &#8212; I mean the purpose of identifying themselves as belonging to the nerd tribe, not doing math. But I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[138,137,136],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-culture","tag-geeks","tag-nerds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-ap","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}