top 10 nerdy hobbies that jeremy might be doing
Scatter readers know that Jeremy has taken up a hobby so nerdy that he won’t tell us what it is. Some guesses:
- Evanston Esperanto Club
- Klingon Language Institute.
- World of Warcraft.
- Second Life.
- Turtle Racing
- Vampire LARP, maybe Jeremy started his own.
- Sociology blogging.
- Chess-boxing.
- Feminist guerrilla performance art.
- 43-man squamish team.
Add your own guesses in the comments.
orgtheory.net 
Maybe he spends his evening searching for the perfect photos to photoshop and post on http://manbabies.com/
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Ann
May 22, 2008 at 12:41 am
That’s twisted, Ann.
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fabiorojas
May 22, 2008 at 12:50 am
Ferret Legging.
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Kieran
May 22, 2008 at 1:41 am
I’m pretty sure he’s become a dungeon master for some online D&D league.
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shakha
May 22, 2008 at 1:51 am
I am rolling and laughing out loud (wife annoyed)…..ferret legging (sounds like an Irish sport)…manbabies (plain weird)…too funny!
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tf
May 22, 2008 at 3:04 am
No ferrets in Ireland. St Patrick drove them out with the snakes.
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Kieran
May 22, 2008 at 3:17 am
Jeremy, buddy, if you are reaidng this blog, please tell us what you are doing so we can end the madness!!
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fabiorojas
May 22, 2008 at 3:19 am
Man, I want to play in a D&D game run by Jeremy “Expletive Deleted” Freese! We should add a gaming schedule to ASA, with special Sociology Celebrity DMs!
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Dan Hirschman
May 22, 2008 at 3:42 am
He’s ruled out Second Life, although apparantly I may have been wrong about my assumption (based on CSI and Law and Order, how I get most of my trends filtered) that it’s only for cheating spouses, stalkers, and serial killers. Apparently it’s for wannabe superheroes.
I think it has to do with coding, programming, or hacking. It is nerdy, not spazzy. I have to do a post on nerd hierarchy next.
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belle lettre
May 22, 2008 at 3:54 am
@belle This nerd hierarchy? Or a more generic one?
Also, re: Second Life, I think the real action is elsewhere. Second Life may be a preview of things to come, but it’s not ready yet. World of Warcraft with its millions and millions of dedicated players is the more interesting one. Last I heard, there were twice as many WoW players in the US as farmers (4 vs. 2 million)…
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Dan Hirschman
May 22, 2008 at 3:59 am
Dan: haha! I have to use this. No, just that there’s an explosion of “obvious but revelatory” posts/books on nerdishness lately. I’ll post it on Scatter. Where I belong only because I am a nerd.
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belle lettre
May 22, 2008 at 4:50 am
Fantasy baseball? Online euchre?
Wait, those are my nerdy ex-hobbies.
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brayden
May 22, 2008 at 4:53 am
I posted a brief reply to all this on Scatterplot. In a miraculous moment of self-restraint, I did not needle Brayden at all about online euchre.
I have never actually played D&D, so I don’t think I would be a good sociology celebrity DM. The soc shrine folks have made several references to it, so I think they might spend a lot of time rolling the 20 sided die out behind the dumpster.
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jeremy
May 22, 2008 at 6:40 am
Mi persona voĉdonas por la Esperanto-klubo – almenaŭ ĝi estas multe pli pragmata ideo ol la Klingona Instituto! Legu nur la 7 punktojn de la Manifesto de Prago kaj konvinkiĝu mem: http://lingvo.org/
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mankso
May 22, 2008 at 10:53 am
Online euchre? Geez, Brayden, you are giant dork.
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fabiorojas
May 22, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Yes, online euchre. My grandparents taught me the game when I was a kid, and there was a time during grad school when I played a lot of late night euchre with people from Canada.
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brayden
May 22, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Euchre sounds like a respiratory disease that commonly afflicted Victorian chimney sweeps and matchbook sellers.
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Kieran
May 22, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Tresling: Arm-wrestling + tetris.
http://tresling.org/
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brubineau
May 22, 2008 at 1:50 pm
I think Battlestar Galactica has to figure in this somehow.
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Omar
May 22, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Online euchre with … Canadians?!?! Have you no shame!!!
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fabiorojas
May 22, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I have to back up Brayden here! Euchre is pretty fun. My grandparents taught me when I was a kid too; they needed a fourth player.
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muleer
May 22, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Hey! There’s nothing nerdy about Esperanto. It’s rather cool!
Take a look at http://www.esperanto.net
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Bill Chapman
May 22, 2008 at 5:38 pm
I thought Euchre was a Michigan thing, but I guess Canada is close enough. I learned it in a middle school math class, and have been playing ever since. But online? Then again, I come from a family of Bridge players, so maybe I’m not one to talk.
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Dan Hirschman
May 22, 2008 at 5:42 pm
“There is nothing nerdy about Esperanto.” Come on! It may well be cool, but if so it’s nerd-cool. Although I bet in high schools the Esperanto kids are always shoving the Klingon kids into lockers and such.
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jeremy
May 22, 2008 at 5:58 pm
“There is nothing nerdy about Esperanto.”
Look, my dad did esperanto and it was so cool… in 1948!!!
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fabiorojas
May 22, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Some other things:
1.) Making costumes for his approaching participation in a historical re-enactment of “X.” (Insert something here, either a civil war battle, the invention of the first computer, etc.).
2.) Constructing numerous miniature figurines of famous demographers. Painstakingly painting them.
3.) Working on a sociology board game.
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shakha
May 22, 2008 at 6:21 pm
shakha,
what would the board to a sociology board game look like? i’m imagining a slightly cartoony version of a small-world social network, a structural equation model, or — god help us — the AGIL map of social theory.
i guess we’ll just have to wait and see what jeremy comes up with.
gabriel
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Gabriel
May 22, 2008 at 7:48 pm
A sociological board game would surely be made up of concentric circles, a la Chicago school.
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Omar
May 22, 2008 at 7:57 pm
i think i’ve got it:
being a sci-fi fanfic reviewer for a con…
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brubineau
May 23, 2008 at 1:56 am
This post is convincing me what a nerd I must be. Not only am I a fan of a card game that old people routinely teach their grandchildren, but a lot of these hobbies sound reasonably fun to me (especially the tresling, thanks Brian!).
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brayden
May 23, 2008 at 6:15 pm
I think tresling would be WAY MORE AWESOME if it was thumb wrestling instead of arm wrestling.
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jeremy
May 24, 2008 at 2:23 am
Interesting!
Just to let you know that eight British MP’s have nominated Esperanto for the Nobel Peace Prize 2008.
Question!
Are British MP’s nerds?
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Brian Barker
May 26, 2008 at 4:14 pm
well, MPs certainly aren’t as nerdy as guys who spend all day on google checking whether their invented language has been dissed by obscure social science blogs
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Gabriel
May 26, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Hey, I taught my daughter euchre last week. (All right, her grandmother was visiting…)
Esperanto is the language of the Greatest William Shatner Film of All Time. How could that be nerdy??
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Ken Houghton
May 28, 2008 at 5:25 pm
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