The page name says it all

I think, without question, I must be a lackwit, according to good old Willy Shakespeare (though I suppose I must get some props for abbreviating the "Brevity is the soul of wit..." line, which throughout the post I may just tack on as a BW when I feel I'm getting too wordy on a subject; my I do go on in these parenthetical statements don't I - I suppose I better get back to the proper body of work...).

Anyway, as my friends will probably have a heart attack over the fact that I have actually taken the pseudo-technological leap into the blogosphere, as it were, and as though anyone but them will actually ever read this drivel, I suppose I should say something relevant or important. But then again, why raise expectations on the first time out. As my good friend theGM would say "I'll make a character after you run three games". So I guess that he will probably wait and see if I can sustain 3 daily entries in a row (the jury's still out on that).

A little about me, if you don't already know: I am a high school math and science teacher with a background in creative writing and administration, I have a number of ubernerdy hobbies including pencil-and-paper RPGs, tabletop miniature games (40K, Infinity, and the like), and playing video games. My non-nerd hobbies include maintaining a relationship with my wonderful wife, having fun with my two cats, camping, and hanging out with my other nerd buddies - who are, incidentally, the best group of people in the world, and for whom I pledge undying gratitude for God, the universe, or my subconscious for blessing me with (and yeah, I know I ended with a preposition, I like f-ing around with the formal phrasings of "for whom" and then still ending with a preposition). Seriously though, I am blessed with a great wife and group of friends, and I don't know what I did to deserve them, but whatever. Thanks everyone. I suppose I could reveal a great deal more about myself, but I can probably give you a good picture by saying that if you walk into my classroom in the morning, you will notice loud heavy metal/punk/alternative "music" playing, you will see a few MasterReplica Light Sabers on the wall, some brainteaser puzzles, posters for Silent Hill 3, Shaun of the Dead, Serenity, and Blade Runner, as well as many Simpsons artifacts. That probably gives you a good idea of what I'm like, and if you are a former student and reading this, then you know exactly who I am.

But that's more narcissism than I can handle for right now. I guess I'll end it right here and save my bitch session for next post. I'm sure you are all awaiting that with baited breath (damn, it sure sucks trying to write sarcastically without saying that you are writing sarcastically).

Oh yeah, I occasionally post on sci-fi and other nerd forums as theProf, theprof, professor (all of those because of having been dubbed with that nickname by others) or, my personal fave, johndrake6. If you get that nerd reference I think you're really cool, even if no one else does.

Which brings me to another topic, so I suppose I'm not ending this session now. My friend supergoober (see his blog at http://supergoober.blogspot.com/) had attempted to rate us all in terms of how goobish we all are. I think that the next post I might define terms and look at word origins as well, but for right now, I would suggest to my eminent colleague that we should split up into several categories the goobishness as he suggested, and then break each of those categories into 4-point rubrics with no score of zero possible (if you are worth rating, you will get a 1) - the main reason is that a 4 point rubric tends to have sufficient distinctions plus you avoid the central tendency that you get with an odd-numbered scale (many people default to a mid score on an odd-numbered scale, an even numbered scale forces the choice between the higher portion of the scale or the lower portion, thus avoiding some of the central tendency bias). Coupled with this we could have a list of self analysis true-false questions to help those with nerd-identity issues or to assist in the overcoming of denial issues (this means you Warden - prepping for a zombie attack and playing Lord of the Rings online does bump you up the goob scale, like it or not). Anyway, I will actually wrap it up for now, given that my wife has just told me that Double Jeopardy has just started.

Bye.