<editorsnote>Hi, I'm Jen Friel, and we here at TNTML examine the lives of nerds outside of the basements and into the social media, and dating world. We have over 75 peeps that write about their life in real time. (Real nerds, real time, real deal.) Sit back, relax, and enjoy some of the stories!!</editorsnote>
Someone please take this and do something with it... FOR REAL!! I need this in my life ...
There's some market research for ya!
And what's the obsession with bacon as someone asked ... I don't know. It's just delicious and very literally bacon, and bacon only, flips this switch in my brain like an orgasm. It's so delicious, and explosive ... and and and it's BACON!!!
But for the business model, the immediate nature of the bacon delivery is important. It's a craving, so it MUST be appeased in under an hour. Maybe have the delivery dudes and chicas be on motorcycles to get there faster. But it MUST MUST MUST be delivered in under an hour.
Oh, and have a really rad website where you can order directly ... and please please please hire someone that can develop a good UI. A good, clean user interface turns me on almost as much as bacon.
ALLLLMOOOOOSSSSTTTTTT
(EVERY NIGHT I STILL CURSE THE UI ON NETFLIX!!! WHOOOOOO THE HELL CAME UP WITH THE ENDLESS SCROLL OPTION FOR THEIR WEB PAGE!! FIRE THEM! FIRE THEM! FIRE THEM!!!
I used to get a lot of emails and face to face IRL hang outs when people would be like viscerally angry with me.
I. CANT. STOP. READING. YOUR. SITE, but I have NOOO idea why - they would say. It's just so addicting!!
I don't know why people find this site interesting, haha it's self indulgent. I write about my life, and brought along my friends to then write about THEIR lives ... and we're like totally just talking about ourselves and apparently people find that interesting. IMHO I think it's just the honesty. No matter what at the end of the day, myself and all of the contributors are ALARMINGLY honest individuals. For me it's spiritual, for others it's educational ... I get it ... but it just makes me laugh.
I wrote that to this duderino the other day and then he replied back with this ...
AHHH well thank you duderino! I very much went through a shift in consciousness in the last 2 years of launching this brand. I've done things that were smart, other things that were dumb, but at the end of the day I kept going, and I keep learning every day- so of course this is raw!! The empowerment comes from the fact that I KNOOOOWWWWWW social media works, because it kept me very literally alive for a year. Morning, noon, and night - I never went hungry, never went without a place to stay, 365 days almost down to the minute! It was crazy, but totally worked and COMPLETELY surprised me. Everything about my journey was accidental - I didn't even mean for it to go for an entire year. I was crazy enough to be prepared to die for what I was doing, it just so happened to be the good kinda crazy that actually worked.
Of COURRRRSSEEE I am insecure. I was born a nerd. Dudes, even when it came to us doing our first few events, and what now became an event company that I am launching with Jenn Hoffman, I wanted to jump out of my skin. I don't throw parties or events!!! I still to this day won't plan a birthday party out of fear that no one will show up!! Even now!! It's redic, and laughable - I get it, but it comes with self worth. I OOOWNNNNN my shit in the digital world, and know I can get to people, and have them listen - but the rest is still a growing process. I still suck at dating, and still get SUPER shy and weird around boys I like. My reputation may precede me online, but IRL I'm still the girl with the hoodie and headphones on, but am ruled by FIERCE curiosity that makes me always down for an adventure in a moment's notice and now have built a network that keep those plentiful.
Thank you very much for the kind words, thank you very much for reading - but yah! I'm just as scared, and out there as the rest of the world ... the only difference is is that I document my fears for the entire interwebz.
If you guys ever have anything you want to say, or want to email me, write for us - anything. I'm ALWAYS game to hear from you.
Now excuse me for a moment, but the living room is calling, and it has requested a one person dance party to Good Vibrations.
Which, btw, for those of you working at home need to do like NOW!! For reals, grab a pair of headphones, grab your ipod - download this song (or pull it up on spotify) and dance like no one is watching (because unless you have some Rear Window shit going on, no one is watching!!) Enjoy life! Feels really good doesn't it?
I'm LOVING me some Philly!! I've had a really really really rad time here getting to make new friends and hanging out with some old ones. I'm currently kicking it at Philadelphia Java Company for a few hours working, if you're in the area and want to stop by you're MORE than welcome to say hi! Here's the addy ...
Come keep me company. I only bite upon request and their caramel latte here might make my life and I might need it to have my baby.
BAHHHH so yummy in my tummy!! Alrite, Getting back to writing!! =)
But first, here's a video my friends and I were discussing at lunch today. It's funny because even though it takes a serious jab at the social media kids - we all laugh because it's so. damn. good. ::golf clap::good job Toyota!
<editorsnote> Nerds, meet my buddy Lindsay. She and I met ... well, somewhere in the social space. I think we might have started talking through this site directly, then through facebook - maybe ... I'm not sure. But she's awesome. I talk to her on twitter almost every day, and she's really rad and TOTALLY a big huge animal lover. Like crazy huge!! In these series of posts she will be talking about her life and random adventures with sometimes more than two legged creatures. I guess there's only one more thing left to say ... HIT IT LINDSAY!! </editorsnote>
#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @TheCraftafarian
So I finally got those pictures I was hoping to get for this post. A friend from high school saw my facebook post for help regarding photos I needed off my uncharged laptop for which I did not have a charger (because I'm a very bad nerd and didn't back up my files from my old laptop). I met him at a nearby starbucks and we sat outside while he worked on my computer. It was really cool because he told me what he was going to do before he did it. To pull data from a laptop you have to unscrew a panel and remove the hard drive--which sounds kinda scary! Since the laptop was in working order and just needed photos on a deadline he just grabbed those off my hard drive for me. So I can share these awesome experiences with you! So if you are in the Central FL-Orlando Area and need some computer help he is CompTIA A+ certified just contact me on twitter and I will get you in touch with him!! So yeah thanks to Robert I now have my old photos from UF Vet School yay!
Last week was the stories of the deer and kangaroo. This week is the white bengal tiger and the cougar. The cougar was actually a little frightening. The tiger didn't shake me in the least. My boyfriend is still annoyed that I helped with these animals. He doesn't want me to get eaten. I share his sentiments, but come on! What an experience!!
The bengal tiger was a gorgeous boy. He was 10 months old and belonged to a circus, I can't remember if it was Barnum and Bailey or Ringling or what. I know it was a circus or some place with performing cats. The poor guy had broken his tibia and fibula (hind leg bones). He was brought to UF Zoo medicine for care. To top it all off the young cub also had a calcium deficiency making it more difficult to heal his broken leg. He was in a large cast and on cage rest as well as medications. Since we were small animal our job was just to go in there at night and check on him. Make sure he didn't chew his cast or run out of water. He was a very sweet boy, very very gentle. We never actually went into the cage with him but interacted from outside and we could scratch his chin through the bars of his cage. He never tried to grab us (although he couldn't fit his front legs thru the bars) or bite us. It was really really really cool to work with him even on the limited basis.
The cougar on the other hand was an awesome experience but I was on edge the entire time. It was tranquilized thankfully. Actually it was on a CRI (constant rate infusion) of propofol. Which is an injectable anesthetic commonly used in humans and animals, I'm sure most of you have heard of it somewhere. So she was on that as well as other medications. This was actually someone’s pet. Apparently it would sleep in bed with its owners. Crazy! The cat's name was Cayla and she had anal fissures (tears in lining of anus...owwie!) and an infection. So she had to be on IV antibiotics, pain medications, as well as anesthetics because she was sweet to her owners but to other people she was a regular cougar. We never had a problem with her or her anesthesia. And I would never have been super nervous if they didn't make such a big deal about the dart gun. Yeah, a dart gun. Although the big cat was hooked up to tons of drugs on the off chance that she woke up we had to be provided with a dart gun. We were shown how to take it from the briefcase thing it came in, screw it together, load the dart, and shoot. After zoo med left my shift mate and I alone with this giant anesthetized cat I took one look at Cayla, looked at the dart gun, looked at my shift mate and said "Fuck the dart gun, if that things wakes up I'm gonna bash it in the head with the defibrillator." It literally took like 3-5 minutes to put the gun together and load it. Annnnd we weren't allowed to have it ready with the safety on!!! I love animals and so does she, every single one. But I love my face just the way it is. The lady in the photo is my buddy Sharon who is now in Vet School, sooo proud of her!!
Crazy times at UF Vet Med. Seriously. I may have more to come but we'll just see what happens this coming week.
DUUUUDDDESSS!! I cannot. cannot. CANNOT. believe Talk Nerdy To Me, Lover is about to turn 2 years old. Seriously!! We have been around for almost 730 dayyyssss! That is bat shit! Seems like just yesterday it was day 417!!! WOW! Time flies!!
Sometimes literally ...
But for reals, I'm SOOOOOOO excited to announce that in just a couple of weeks we turn 2 and in honor of #2 movements everywhere - we are going to be throwing a bash at the Brass Monkey here in LA!
It's a super rad bar in Koreatown where they celebrate the ancient art of kara-okkkkeeee. Seriously ... ancient!
So grab your friends, grab friends of friends, and come celebrate with us by belting out cheesy songs at the top of your lungs.
For reals, I can't sing ... at all ... but you can come out and watch me try!! WHOOP WHOOP!!!
Everyone. Will. Sing. So, be prepared, or at least be drunk enough to not care! YAY INTOXICATION!!!
Come meet your favorite writers on the site, and hang out with really rad like minded peeps. I genuinely enjoy connecting people, so like ... connect bitches!! =) =) =)
Hope to see you guys there!!! For reals, man - if you live in LA and haven't been to one of our events, you have no excuse. We're a bunch of nerdy girls that SERIOUSLY know how to throw down - so let's go do some cool shit, have some fun, and hopppeeefulllllllyyyyyy get some ...
::fingers crossed::
Wait, who am I kidding. No more casual sex Friel. Fine fine ... well here's hoping it happens for someone.
Stupid rules of stupid life that stupid make sense. BAH!
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 12:57PM
