It’s Only Fitting for Blog Entry #4000: Dork Pride!

That’s right, folks — according to Blogware, this is my 4000th blog

entry since starting on November 10th, 2001, the year blogging became

big.

(According to Rebecca Blood, the year you started blogging is the year blogging became big.)

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Last week, I dropped by Accordion City’s nerd fiction bookstore, Bakka-Phoenix, to attend my friend and former co-worker Cory’s book signing for his latest novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.

While there, I talked with a number of my fellow nerds — with Cory’s

dad about the increasing popularity of dynamic programming languages,

superstring theory and eleven-dimensional space, with Possum about Anarchist University,

old 8088/8086 processors and with Cat about border crossings and

science fiction fan conventions. After the signing, we then went to

dinner at Squirly’s, where we talked about the Clarion writer’s workshop,

perfect knots, the socialist intellectual day camp that Cory attended

when he was young and about the time when he and I were at McSorley’s in New York and I won over a gang of bikers by playing AC/DC on my accordion.

You’d never have to tell us about dork pride; we live it!

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I told you nerd girls were cute — I’m marrying one, in fact.

One of the articles linked from CNN’s front page is Dork Pride! Suddenly It’s Cool to be Uncool. It’s typical for CNN to be late for the bus (my friend Turner,

who’s written for Time a number of times, calls the Time/Warner

journalism style one of “sustained obviousness”), but it’s good to be

recognized anyway.