#NerdsUnite: Think we can get 50 bras by next Friday??

I am blessed to be involved with the most AHHHMAAZINNNGGGG organization on the planet, GettLove. It's a soup kitchen here in Hollywood - and I kid you not, the SECOND you walk into that place you can feel the energy shift. It's palpable. They're such awesome. awesome. awesome. people - I can't stress this enough!!!

That being said, they are looking to collect 50 bras by next Friday. If you live in LA, or know anyone that does and has a few extra bras laying around (who thinks to donate bras?!!?), please please please please please hit me up. I'd love to help these folks out with their goal.

I'll arrange pickup and all that jazz, just really really really appreciative.

Hit me up on Twitter: @JenFriel

or drop me an email JenFriel at TalkNerdyToMeLover dot com.

Please pass this on to your network or to anyone in LA that can help out. SOOOOOOOOO grateful you guys. Thanks so much in advance.

Here is some more info on GettLove - and of course you can check their site out as well.

Peace. Love. and Lollipops!

xoxo #nerdsunite

#NerdsUnite: Ask That Nerdy Chick ...

I get asked a lot of absurdly random things by you wunnerful wunnerful people everyday - so I wanted to just start posting some of them to see if anyone else can relate, or help out with info if I can't answer ... etc.

I don't really know where I'm going with this, but I have a feeling you guys will throw some cool shit my way. HAHA!!! Here's one I just got on OkCupid ...

I actually found your OKC profile because a google search lead me to talknerdytomelover.com, so am I doing it wrong? :P

103 dates in 9 months, with only 4 that had any potential. That's fucking awesome! That's what real sociologists do: field work. You put in the time. I can't wait to read your master's thesis about the "root of attraction." I'm being 100% serious.

Are you going to follow up with those four now that the nine months are over?

I'm still reading through your tons and tons of material on your site. It's pretty incredible that the whole thing was a response to getting your heart broken. What kind of man could have that power over you? It's awesome that you were able to turn that pain into something positive.

JK Rowling's ex husband must be kicking himself.

Anyway, you seem super interesting, and I'd like to hang out, and perhaps keep in touch on twitter and facebook, but I don't think I'm interested in dating you, so I'm not really going to put the kind of stuff that I usually put in these messages. I'm just going to keep grilling you about your experiment because it fascinates me :P.

So how much traffic do you get to your site? It looks like it has its own faithful and active community. That's really good. I'm trying to figure out how you are monetizing it. I spend a lot of time thinking about shit that's boring to most people like "business models."

Is maintaining the site your full time job now? Sorry if this is already answered somewhere on your site. This is the first I'm seeing it :P. You have so much content!

You know what your site sort of reminds me of (in a very distant way)? Another strong personal brand: Gary Vaynerchuk. A lot of people think he's kind of an obnoxious jerk, but I think it's just Gary bein Gary. He has very few filters. It looks like you have zero filters :D.

You know, you've inspired me. I'm going to subscribe to your site, read through the massive archives. I'm going to start posting some blogs under my own name, build my own brand.

Oh, and since you're an expert at OKC, please feel free to give me harsh criticisms of my profile. I'm a big boy, I can take it. And I'm actually super curious about your opinion.

Keep being awesome!

K

Wow. so many questions - first off thanks so much for reaching out. really genuinely appreciate it. the fact that you found us via google means I'm doing some rad SEO ::evil laugh mwahahahaha:: Dude, Google and Squarespace do not get along. Blows major chunks - but whatever. Free hosting, I'm not mad at it.

Am I going to follow up with the 4 now that the 9 months is over? No unfortunately. They're all said and done. Honestly had I felt that any of them were going to work out then I would have stopped the experiment. There was no set time frame for this - it just became so popular organically that I just sort of kept up with it unintentionally and then one day sat through and counted and realized I was close to 100. HAHA! So so so nuts.

Thank you, yeah this site got started because of a broken heart. Crazy, but I never wanted to fully admit that to anyone. I'm not much of a chick in the chick department, I don't really do the whole oh woe is me - men blow. But this guy did. HAHA!!! I even said outright that I never wanted to post on it, and when I did - I found hundreds of people that wrote to me being able to relate, and share their stories of heartbreak. Literally blew me away. Took a lot out of me to write, and I need to recognize that I am still healing, but what a rad way to go about it. Really made my life. (Read more about the mentalist and how we got started here) What kind of man can have that power over you? I dunno! Love makes you do some crazy things, but it certainly took two to tango - so I played my part just as much as he did.

I'm super super super proud of our nerdy little community, and all of the people that read us. I used to actually send out thank you notes every night to each "liker" on Facebook. That was until Facebook limited the amount of messages you can send in a single day. When I started the site, I didn't necessarily want to just strictly focus on traffic - I was more interested in engagement, and really building a strong foundation. Anyone can get traffic with a super creative SEO, but not anyone can build a following - that takes heart and passion, which I hope shows through.

I don't monetize the site in the traditional sense with ads. I was more interested in being a brand evangelist, and going the route of finding sponsors for my social experiments and for me personally as a lifecaster. It's a new age in advertising - it's a trust economy. People are still going to buy, but they don't want to be sold to. I had to find products that I very genuinely genuinely liked, and start from there. I don't just take on sponsors to take them on ... it's super lame, dilutes the brand, and I didn't do all of this to have it one day be watered down to a piece of crapola. Not my style. The only ads on the site are from people that have sponsored me personally, or sponsored housing, food, or clothing for my journey over the last year. And yes, this is my full time job, my full time EVVERRRYYTHIIINNGGG. Wakes me up in the morning, and tucks me in at night - still can't believe it's my life, but from the depths of my soul - I am grateful.

I love Gary V! Got to meet him at Tahoe Tech this year- haha yes we have similar energy. I am very much a no bullshit, go and get 'em kinda chica. I think Gary is just following his passion, and I am doing the same. That's all that it boils down to. But thank you ... that is an incredible compliment. 

Sure I'll definitely take a look at your profile, albeit offline - haha as I am posting this response on my site. Don't want to call you out in front of the world. Not my thing. But yeah, I plan on over the next couple of weeks writing a thesis on my findings, and on online dating in general, especially since tomorrow I'll be announcing a new social experiment. Timing was perfect, and totally unintentional.

But seriously man, thanks for reading and thanks for reaching out. Really appreciate it. Just doin what I love to do, I hope you find the same as well. LMK if there's ever anything I can do to help.

Keep on keepin on!

#nerdsunite

Got something to ask?

Here's my twitter: @JenFriel

Facebook my butt: www.Facebook.com/jenfriel

Or get old school and email me: JenFriel@TalkNerdyToMeLover.com

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THANKS!

#NerdsUnite: @FlyingWillow = amazeballs!

Alrite, alrite, alrite - a whole heap load of you have been asking where I got the feathers in my hair ... and straight up, these things are the tits. Double Ds!!!

I was a bit hesitant about posting on them when I got them almost a month ago, because I just wasn't sure how easy they were going to be to take care of, and I'm a super crazy low maintenance human being ... if they were a pain, I just wasn't sure how kosher for passover I'd be in saying something about them ... either way, I KID YOU NOT these are AWESOME!!!

First off .... look ...you can see mine right here ... or in like every pic I've taken in the last month - HA!

They're held in place by this little plastic thing that doesn't damage your hair ... at all. In fact your normal hair just totally grows in under it ... look ...

Dudes, I color my hair, and even touched up my roots a week ago, and was able to not get any of it on these feathers (haha I was super careful, but STILL!!). They are CRAZY AWESOME low maintenance. They literally just feel like real hair, and I kid you not - the SECOND I got home and saw them on, I was like omg omg omg these complete me in a way that I didn't know I needed completing. They're totally gonna be a trend. Dude, even in the last month - good lord, I've seen so many people in 'em. It's that visceral reaction of omg yes! Totally had it with these. They're just so rad, and so cool, but just add so much character to your hair again without damaging it.

My fellow SpiritHood buddy Felicia does 'em - and dude, look at some of these client pics:

They can totes work on any style of hair, and you can even flat iron them or curl them - literally, it's like having really gnarly non damaging highlights put in.

The only problems I've had were, I can't really brush my hair with them. I use a wide tooth comb anyway since I have crazy think horse like hair. So for me, that was nothing, but I can imagine for some with a soft brush it would be a pain.

Also, when you're making out with a boy make sure you tell him that they're in. He might wonder if they're extensions ... but if he pulls your hair really hard, make sure you tell him that they're in there. HAHA! Totally not kidding, and totally almost happened.

But yah! Felicia is based here in LA! She's not paying me squat diddly tuna for this endorsement, just like I said really effin think these things are rad, and super happy that they're low maintenance.

Here's more info on Felicia:

Click here for more info!

Dude, SOOOO RAAADD!! BAHHHH!!

Thanks so so so much Felicia!!!

#nerdsunite

#FileUnder: Things that make you go hmmmm

Got a nugget for your noggin ... check this out ...

Stare at the center of this grid for a while, and the outer edges will seem to "repair" themselves.

#nerdsunite

#NerdsUnite: Meet @jeffw171, your nerdy sport-y lover!

Alritteeeyyyy then. So this duderino sent me an IM on Facebook last week while I was in Vegas asking if he could write for us. I asked him where his area of nerd-spertise was, and he said sports! Rad! We don't have someone of that! Took a look at his stuff, and dudes - totally didn't suck.

Nerds ... meet Jeff! Hit it!

When I approached Jen about an opportunity to write for her, she was more than willing to oblige and give me a chance to write for Talk Nerdy To Me Lover.  So my best idea for my first post was to introduce myself.

My name is Jeff Wolfson. I graduated from college not very long ago and have held a job in sports media since. I work for Mid-Atlantic Sports Network’s website MASNsports.com while also doing some writing on the side. In my years of helping to cover the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals, I’ve learned probably the most important part of my personality: I’m a nerd that has a love of sports.

The nerd part of me is mostly hidden because I was always the athletic type growing up, but I always had a thing for video games, comic books and cartoons.  To this day, I still play video games, read the occasional comic book, and watch countless animated movies.

While writing for Talk Nerdy To Me Lover I will touch on sports from my take, but I may throw some nerd references in there just to keep my nerd credentials. I will have something new every Tuesday. Anyway, to contact me you can tweet at @jeffw171. I’d love to hear from you and get some feedback. You can also visit my personal Web site at www.jeffwolfsonsports.com. Looking forward to interacting with you!

Jeff will be posting every Tuesday. So feel free to tune in and check it out. Or not, whatevs - I'll just boutique direct target market you on Facebook either way ... and like stick it in your face and make you say Uncle. Does anyone even say Uncle anymore? Like is that still a thing? If I walked up to a 12 year old, and said yo! Do you still say uncle - would they even know what I am talking about? Wait, I shouldn't be going up to 12 year olds for anything ... at all ... ever. Am I still talking? Shut up Jen.

WELCOME JEFF!!!!

#nerdsunite

PS. If anyone is ever interested in writing for us, just shoot me an email with a sample post: JenFriel@TalkNerdyToMeLover.com I'm putting my manager hat on, and going to give everyone a day to post so we're not all freakishly random like we have been for the last year. Gotta orrgganniiiizzzeeeeeee!!! But yah! Look forward to hearing from you. HIZZUAH!!