My girlfriend (astr0babe) made this costume from scratch and entered it into a contest on Facebook. (For those unfamiliar, it's Illyria from the series "Angel". If you'd like to vote for her, all you have to do is click the pic below then press 'like'. I hope you enjoy!!

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Are there any Hot Nerds out there who like shooting Locusts in Gears of War 2 Horde mode? My username is crystallinity. please add me! I'm up for plenty of other games as well.

Echo… echo……

Has this community effectively died down? Is it that all y'all have stopped being as active on LJ or is it just this community that you're no longer posting to?

Seems that, at the very least, people have flocked to different pastures for their hot nerdy application fixes. Or did we just stop recruiting?

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

What's a social activity-loving guy like me doing alone in his apartment in San Francisco on a Saturday night?

Watching The Big Bang Theory, that's what!

And y'all should watch it too if you aren't already. Seriously.

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I just found a great article on MSNBC via FARK entitled, "Could inner zombie be controlling your brain?" It discusses how our unconscious minds may be more in control of our bodies than we give them credit for. The article in itself is just neat as hell, but continually referring to the unconscious as a zombie made all sorts of happy. Here's the ( Read more... )

I'm a Dean's List Biology major entering into the chiropractic graduate program next quarter, and he's a huge WWII nerd, specifically the European theater. We are getting into jogging shape, just so that we can run Currahee and have a shared experience with the Band of Brothers ( Read more... )

There must have been some kind of hot_nerds vibe in the air yesterday. I found myself thinking about the comm. while I was getting ready in the morning, then I came home last night and saw that hot_nerds had reanimated itself. Hooray!

I am definitely a nerd: English professor with a fixation on studying 18th-century marriage. I'm not sure my boyfriend fiancé ( ( Read more... )

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Hey hot_nerds! Aww, I miss this community. Since joining the comm. I have graduated from college with a BS/MS in neuroscience, worked for two years in a lab, and I'm just about to start a PhD program this fall! But this is a post about nerd love ( Read more... )

Hi hot_nerds, how are you? I agree with timothytoastman, this community is fun when it is active! I've met so many cool people though HN, many of whom I still correspond with since i joined in *gasp* 2003. Damn, we're getting to be old nerds!

Anyway, I will continue with Matt's theme post. I met my boyfriend in 2005 in graduate school, though we didn't start ( Read more... )