Weird Al Yankovic – White and Nerdy
My wife hates this song, and I’ve never been a huge Weird Al Yankovic fan, but I just couldn’t help but feel like it’s talking about me. I actually did a lyric-by-lyric comparison to see just how white and nerdy I am. After tallying up my comments below, I’d say 9 of the lyrics describe me well, 14 are somewhat accurate, and 12 don’t describe me at all. So, according to Weird Al, I am white and nerdy, but not overwhelmingly so. Nothing I didn’t already know, but it was a fun exercise anyway.
- “First in my class here at MIT.”
Well, I was saludatorian in my high school graduating class.
- “Got skills, I’m a champion at D&D.”
Heh, no debating this one. I’ve been playing D&D since I was nine and have shown no signs of stopping.
- “MC Escher, that’s my favorite MC.”
I actually had to look this one up, so no.
- “Keep your 40, I’ll just have an Earl Grey tea.”
Nah, plain ol’ ice tea for me, thanks.
- “My rims never spin. To the contrary, you’ll find that they’re quite stationary.”
Um, no, I can’t say I’ve ever felt the need for spinning rims.
- “All of my action figures are cherry.”
I’m no action figure nerd, although I do know a Transformers collector.
- “Stephen Hawking’s in my library.”
Honestly, I never did like physics that much, but I thought his Yahoo Answers question was pretty interesting.
- “My MySpace page is all totally pimped out. Got people beggin’ for my top eight spaces.”
I have customized it, but my MySpace profile isn’t anything special.
- “Yo, I know pi to a thousand places.”
Am I good at math? Yes. Have I memorized pi? Not past 3.14157.
- “Ain’t got no grills but I still wear braces.”
Neither.
- “I order all of my sandwiches with mayonnaise.”
Blugh, I hate mayonnaise.
- “I’m a wiz at Minesweeper, I could play for days.”
I have spent some considerable periods mastering it, although I haven’t played at all in a few years.
- “Once you’ve see my sweet moves, you’re gonna stay amazed. My fingers movin’ so fast I’ll set the place ablaze.”
80+ words per minute, baby!
- “There’s no killer app I haven’t run.”
Eh, no more so than any other computer-using desk jockey.
- “At Pascal, well I’m number one.”
Sorry, I ascribe to more modern programming languages.
- “Do vector calculus just for fun.”
I did ace calculus, and I put together a statistical analysis program for D&D just for fun.
- “I ain’t got a gat, but I got a siren gun.”
Neither.
- “Happy Days is my favorite theme song.”
I didn’t even like the show.
- “I could sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong.”
I probably couldn’t, but my father’s pretty good at it.
- “I’ll ace any trivia quiz you bring on.”
That would depend on the category. I’m pretty good at science quizzes.
- “I’m fluent with JavaScript as well as Klingon.”
JavaScript, yes. Klingon, no.
- “I been browsin’, inspectin’ X-Men comics. You know I collect ‘em.”
I don’t collect them, but I’m a fan of the movies and cartoons.
- “The pens in my pocket, I must protect them.”
Who writes in this day and age? If I need a physical copy, I usually type it and print it out.
- “My ergonomic keyboard never leaves me bored.”
Well, I have asked people for an ergonomic hand rest for my keyboard for Christmas.
- “Shoppin’ online for deals on some writable media.”
I do shop online, but CD-Rs are already too cheap to pay shipping on.
- “I edit Wikipedia.”
Just the one time, I swear.
- “I memorized Holy Grail really well, I can recite it right now and have you R-O-T-F-L-O-L.”
They call me… Tim.
- “I got a business doing websites (websites), when my friends need some code, who do they call? I do HTML for ‘em all. Even made a homepage for my dog, yo.”
Guilty as sin. I’m a real web junky. Heck, I’ve been doing it my entire professional career.
- “I got myself a fanny pack. They were havin’ a sale down at the Gap.”
No, definitely not.
- “Spend my nights with a roll of bubble wrap. Pop, pop – hope no one sees me, gettin’ freaky.”
That’s just… disturbing.
- “I’m nerdy in the extreme and whiter than sour cream.”
Yes, quite.
- “I was in AV club and glee club and even the chess team.”
Are you kidding? I founded my school’s AV club.
- “Only question I ever thought was hard was do I like Kirk or do I like Picard?”
Believe it or not, I’m a bigger fan of Janeway.
- “Spend every weekend at the Renaissance Fair.”
Yes, I am a chronic LARPer.
- “Got my name on my underwear.”
Not unless I changed my name to “Hane” without realizing it.