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[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by evenodds

At the bar last night, a doctor of Chinese medicine accurately diagnosed a few of us, who she'd not seen for a while, by examining our tongues.

It was thrilling and creepy and now I am very intrigued.

My father had amazing results with acupuncture, but I am a neophyte. Anyone use it acupuncture or other alternative therapies?

Fun fact: a man of 40 should have sex once every two weeks, a woman of 40 . . . once every three.

Even(good thing I am not 40)Odds

Why? So that he might "save it up" and flood the Mrs. like a garden hose aimed into a sandwich Baggie?

Report that fool to the proper licensing committees.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick

I'm 40 and if I had sex only once every three weeks my skin would look bad, my mood would be bitchy, and overall, I'd resemble one of those poor mangy starving lions you see on nature specials who have gone too long without food because man and nature have conspired to slowly destroy their habitat. So I question the veracity of that "fun fact."

I am also of certain age, and I totally agree. Having sex that often could so completely run you ragged that you would begin to fall apart in just a few months.

[evenodds]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I don't think so. I think this place provides a distinctly non-nerdlike conversation we don't necessarily get elsewhere. I don't see it as nerdy at all.

Sebby, I would say that a few of us blow the general lawyer nerd curve*, and yet, we are nerdy compared to non-lawyers.

I know lawyers or finance guys (also nerd-tastic) who do incredibly cool things (climb mountains, race cars, shoot movies), but at their core, they studied or worked when they could have done anything else.

Since I am related to and have been involved with actual cool people, I embrace the fact that a "cool lawyer" is still not that cool. Those thinking "I was a nerd in high school" (or worse, "I wasn't") . . . we all had an element of nerdiness. Otherwise, you won't get into the right colleges/law schools/firms/etc. that land you here on the FB, ignoring your real work.


*obvious joke: it's the only thing I blow.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by evenodds

Sebby, I would say that a few of us blow the general lawyer nerd curve*, and yet, we are nerdy compared to non-lawyers.

I know lawyers or finance guys (also nerd-tastic) who do incredibly cool things (climb mountains, race cars, shoot movies), but at their core, they studied or worked when they could have done anything else.

Since I am related to and have been involved with actual cool people, I embrace the fact that a "cool lawyer" is still not that cool. Those thinking "I was a nerd in high school" (or worse, "I wasn't") . . . we all had an element of nerdiness. Otherwise, you won't get into the right colleges/law schools/firms/etc. that land you here on the FB, ignoring your real work.


*obvious joke: it's the only thing I blow.

Dammit, Sebby's certain he's not a nerd. Not even a tiny bit nerdy. Let him hold onto that.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by evenodds

Sebby, I would say that a few of us blow the general lawyer nerd curve*, and yet, we are nerdy compared to non-lawyers.

I know lawyers or finance guys (also nerd-tastic) who do incredibly cool things (climb mountains, race cars, shoot movies), but at their core, they studied or worked when they could have done anything else.

Since I am related to and have been involved with actual cool people, I embrace the fact that a "cool lawyer" is still not that cool. Those thinking "I was a nerd in high school" (or worse, "I wasn't") . . . we all had an element of nerdiness. Otherwise, you won't get into the right colleges/law schools/firms/etc. that land you here on the FB, ignoring your real work.


*obvious joke: it's the only thing I blow.

I get your point, but having had drinks with several people from this place, I did not find anyone to be nerdy. I found them to be just a bit smarter than the average person (seriously), like a fair number of professionals. I think you might be conflating non-nerdiness with average-ness. That a person studied a bit more than others doesn't necessarily make him nerdy. I hated school my whole life, but I managed to get decent enough grades. I'm not sure that's a nerdy characteristic so much as a survival instinct. I couldn't have cared less about my grades. All I knew was you needed to have decent ones to get a job. (Of course, then I went to law school, so that kind of blows the whole "it's a result of having a good survival instinct" excuse out of the water.)

But yes, I do have a secret cache of Rush tunes on my Ipod, and I love reading about politics, so there might have been a good bit of genetic nerdiness there.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Dammit, Sebby's certain he's not a nerd. Not even a tiny bit nerdy. Let him hold onto that.

Hey... I scored some serious betties in high school, bro.

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I get your point, but having had drinks with several people from this place, I did not find anyone to be nerdy. I found them to be just a bit smarter than the average person (seriously), like a fair number of professionals. I think you might be conflating non-nerdiness with average-ness. That a person studied a bit more than others doesn't necessarily make him nerdy. I hated school my whole life, but I managed to get decent enough grades. I'm not sure that's a nerdy characteristic so much as a survival instinct. I couldn't have cared less about my grades. All I knew was you needed to have decent ones to get a job. (Of course, then I went to law school, so that kind of blows the whole "had a good survival instinct" excuse out of the water.)

But yes, I do have a secret cache of Rush tunes on my Ipod, and I love reading about politics, so there might have been a good bit of genetic nerdiness there.

Give it up Sebby and embrace your inner nerd.

Or accept the outer nerd you hope no one would notice.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by evenodds

Sebby, I would say that a few of us blow the general lawyer nerd curve*, and yet, we are nerdy compared to non-lawyers.

I know lawyers or finance guys (also nerd-tastic) who do incredibly cool things (climb mountains, race cars, shoot movies), but at their core, they studied or worked when they could have done anything else.

Since I am related to and have been involved with actual cool people, I embrace the fact that a "cool lawyer" is still not that cool. Those thinking "I was a nerd in high school" (or worse, "I wasn't") . . . we all had an element of nerdiness. Otherwise, you won't get into the right colleges/law schools/firms/etc. that land you here on the FB, ignoring your real work.


*obvious joke: it's the only thing I blow.

I have to disagree. Yes, I am an attorney, but that is just my job. It does not take much review of my extracurricular interests to see that I fall squarely outside the nerd box. For example, I am a cardio fitness enthusiast, attending stationary bicycling classes with regularity. I am a fan of esoteric music, including local music that receives no commercial radio play and a quite a variety of world music. My evenings in July are often spent watching the re-cap of the Tour de France, and I have spent more than one weekday afternoon at a downtown pub watching Champions League play. I am on the boards of several non-profits, a large domestic violence prevention agency and my neighborhood association, of which I am president. President. This, my friends, is not the portrait of a nerd, but rather a modern Renaissance Man.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I have to disagree. Yes, I am an attorney, but that is just my job. It does not take much review of my extracurricular interests to see that I fall squarely outside the nerd box. For example, I am a cardio fitness enthusiast, attending stationary bicycling classes with regularity. I am a fan of esoteric music, including local music that receives no commercial radio play and a quite a variety of world music. My evenings in July are often spent watching the re-cap of the Tour de France, and I have spent more than one weekday afternoon at a downtown pub watching Champions League play. I am on the boards of several non-profits, a large domestic violence prevention agency and my neighborhood association, of which I am president. President. This, my friends, is not the portrait of a nerd, but rather a modern Renaissance Man.

aren't you the sock that makes sushi too?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Fugee

Give it up Sebby and embrace your inner nerd.

Or accept the outer nerd you hope no one would notice.

Have I offered the suggestion I don't harbor some form of innate nerdiness? I was speaking about the board generally. In all seriousness, I know nerds. Lord, how I know nerds. And those I've met are just not nerds.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I have to disagree. Yes, I am an attorney, but that is just my job. It does not take much review of my extracurricular interests to see that I fall squarely outside the nerd box. For example, I am a cardio fitness enthusiast, attending stationary bicycling classes with regularity. I am a fan of esoteric music, including local music that receives no commercial radio play and a quite a variety of world music. My evenings in July are often spent watching the re-cap of the Tour de France, and I have spent more than one weekday afternoon at a downtown pub watching Champions League play. I am on the boards of several non-profits, a large domestic violence prevention agency and my neighborhood association, of which I am president. President. This, my friends, is not the portrait of a nerd, but rather a modern Renaissance Man.

Modern Renaissance Men are Nerds. Everyone knows that.

Originally Posted by dtb

Otherwise known as the Puerto Rican Tuxedo.

Racist.

Typical day in 11th grade: Jeans, jean jacket with Dark Side of the Moon patch on back, Doors t-shirt, workboots, accessorized with a bandanna around the head to hold back my flowing Long Island metal mullet. Truly the last word in fashion was I, then as now.

[evenodds]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I have to disagree. Yes, I am an attorney, but that is just my job. It does not take much review of my extracurricular interests to see that I fall squarely outside the nerd box. For example, I am a cardio fitness enthusiast, attending stationary bicycling classes with regularity. I am a fan of esoteric music, including local music that receives no commercial radio play and a quite a variety of world music. My evenings in July are often spent watching the re-cap of the Tour de France, and I have spent more than one weekday afternoon at a downtown pub watching Champions League play. I am on the boards of several non-profits, a large domestic violence prevention agency and my neighborhood association, of which I am president. President. This, my friends, is not the portrait of a nerd, but rather a modern Renaissance Man.

Thank you for reaffirming my point.

[dtb]

Originally Posted by evenodds

At the bar last night, a doctor of Chinese medicine accurately diagnosed a few of us, who she'd not seen for a while, by examining our tongues.

It was thrilling and creepy and now I am very intrigued.

My father had amazing results with acupuncture, but I am a neophyte. Anyone use it acupuncture or other alternative therapies?

Fun fact: a man of 40 should have sex once every two weeks, a woman of 40 . . . once every three.

Even(good thing I am not 40)Odds

I am addicted to acupuncture. I go weekly, and for a time, I was going 3x a week. There's nothing it can't cure!

I credit it with getting me knocked up. The daily sexfest helped, too.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by evenodds

Thank you for reaffirming my point.

Was e/o around for the whiffs?