i am 52% nerdy, but not white
Check out Weird Al’s infamous “White and Nerdy” video, a satire of Ridin’ by Chamillionaire. Here’s the lego version. How nerdy am I? I downloaded the lyrics and checked off each trait that I possessed. I gave myself a few partial credits. Click below the fold to see how I fared.
| White and Nerdy Trait | Points |
| I mow My front lawn | 1 |
| First in my class here at MIT | 0 |
| Got skills, I’m a champion at D&D | 1 |
| MC Escher – that’s my favorite MC | 1 |
| Keep your 40, I’ll just have an Earl Grey tea | 0 |
| My rims never spin, to the contrary | 1 |
| All of my action figures are cherry | 1 |
| Steven Hawking’s in my library | 1 |
| My MySpace page is all totally pimped out | 0 |
| Got people beggin’ for my top eight spaces | 0 |
| Yo, I know pi to a thousand places | 0.5 |
| Ain’t got no grills but I still wear braces | 0 |
| I order all of my sandwiches with mayonnaise | 0 |
| I’m a whiz at Minesweeper – I could play for days | 1 |
| There’s no killer app I haven’t run | 0 |
| At Pascal, well I’m number one | 1 |
| Do vector calculus just for fun | 1 |
| I ain’t got a gat but I got a soldering gun | 1 |
| Happy Days is my favorite theme song | 1 |
| I could sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong | 1 |
| I’ll ace any trivia quiz you bring on | 1 |
| I’m fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon | 0 |
| My Segway | 0.25 |
| X-Men comics, you know I collect ‘em | 0 |
| The pens in my pocket, I must protect ‘em | 1 |
| My ergonomic keyboard never leaves me bored | 1 |
| Shopping online for deals on some writable media | 0 |
| I edit Wikipedia | 0 |
| I memorized Holy Grail really well | 1 |
| I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL | 1 |
| I got a business doing websites | 0 |
| When my friends need some code, who do they call? | 0 |
| I do HTML for ‘em all | 0 |
| Even made a homepage for my dog | 0 |
| Yo, I got myself a fanny pack | 1 |
| Spend my nights with a roll of bubble wrap | 1 |
| And whiter than sour cream | 0 |
| Or do I like Picard | 1 |
| Spend every weekend at the Renaissance Fair | 1 |
| Got my name on my underwear | 1 |
| I was in AV Club | 0 |
| Glee Club | 0 |
| Chess Team | 0 |
| Total | 22.75 |
| % Nerdy | 52% |
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Not sure all this analysis is necessary — the fanny pack says it all.
tf
April 11, 2008 at 2:52 am
“my friends are Finnish nerd bloggers…” Check!
fabiorojas
April 11, 2008 at 3:06 am
On aggregate, I am guessing us orgtheory guys could easily, with a few minor tweaks, fill in the rest of the grids to get us to 100% white and nerdy.
tf
April 11, 2008 at 5:42 am
Don’t forget “Tea Partay”. The opening is definitely stolen from Weird Al.
I got the chess team covered.
shakha
April 11, 2008 at 1:35 pm
I’ve gotta think you get a few extra nerd points just for making that table.
tina
April 11, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Tina, you get a point just for going past the fold and commenting a white and nerdy thread on a sociology blog.
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