Location: Ottawa
Member Since: August 26, 2009

Nerdiest Obsession: Tech gadgets (namely mobile phones, netbooks, Zune), Team Fortress 2, Dungeons and Dragons, Science (Science!)

Wastes too much time on: The internet! I spend at least 8 hours a day on the internet for work and then another 3 hours minimum on it through various mediums (vid games, smartphone mobile browsing, laptop at the dinner table...)

Favourite female nerd: Susannah Breslin (reversecowgirlblog.blogspot.com) - Freelance journalist and photographer. Written for Newsweek, Details, Harper's Bazaar, The Daily Beast, Radar Online, Variety, Salon, Wired

Favourite male nerd: Simon Sage, IntoMobile.com (teehehe – he’s so dreamy!)

Secretly collects: Scientific American magazines (both digital and physical copies)

Hates with a fiery passion: Kittens. I know, I know – it makes me a jerk. But they’re all spiky claws and hissing and leap-at-your-facey. Scares me.

Nerdy line that makes you swoon: Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all my base are belong to you.

Top 5 sites visited daily: HotPinkGeek, WindowsMobileCool, Video Fantastica, Dig Your Own Grave, and Twitter (/BambiBlue)

Top 5 things everyone should check out ASAP: My pro blog, Video Fantastica (a site run by a friend of mine – look forward to many hours of procrasti-entertainment!), BambiGoesGreen, Super Deluxe (go Babycakes!), and Team Fortress 2!

Books

Fave book(s): Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks – it’s about neurology and music
Fave author(s): Oliver Sacks (neurologist, author of Awakenings and An Anthropologist on Mars)
Most disappointing "based on the novel": Stephen King’s It (though I am deathly afraid of clowns)
Books you'd love to see made into a film: “The Time Traveller’s Wife” - Audrey Niffenegger
Most impactful book/author: The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging by Arianna Huffington
First book you ever read: Nancy Drew! “The Secret of Shady Glen”
First book that made you really like reading: “Charlotte’s Web” - E. B. White
Currently reading: The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs – about a man who reads the entire Encyclopedia Britannica from front to back
Fave book news site: amazon.ca

Video Games

Favourite game(s): Team Fortress 2
Favourite character(s): I’m a sucker for flame throwers and all things bright and burn-y!
Biggest cash grab game(s): Halo. Boo @ Halo.
Spent too much time playing: Team Fortress 2, Age of Empires II, Left4Dead, Peggle (yeah, go on, laugh), and Plants vs. Zombies
Most disappointing ending in a game: Silent Hill (loved the entire game, the ending disappointed me greatly)
Would fit right in: Resident Evil – I’m all about runnin’ around shooting zombies and lookin’ hot!
First game ever played: River City Ransom
Currently playing: You guessed it – TF2!
Favourite gaming news site: Steam.com, the-exiled-ones.com

Music

Fave artist(s): Goya
Fave band(s): Flight of the Conchords, Radiohead, Hey Rosetta!
Fave musician(s): Brian May, Chopin
Fave album(s): Thriller
Fave singer(s): Billie Holiday, Michael Jackson, Sarah Slean, Hawksley Workman, Royal Wood
Best band/concert to see live: Sarah Slean, Hawksley Workman. Both fantastic singers with the most funny, goofy, entertaining shows you will ever see!
Worst band/concert to see live: Smashing Pumpkins. Seriously. Ouch.
Currently hooked on: Flight of the Conchords. Though I had to be talked in to their music, I am really warming up to it now that I’ve watched the entire first season of their show. Very funny stuff!
Fave music news site: Hype Machine

Science!

Fave theory: Michael Persinger (a neuroscientist at Laurentian University)’s theory “Perceptual And Motor Skills” – EMFs emitted by power lines and towers, clock radios and other electrical sources may help debunk myths that people or things are ‘haunted’.
Fave scientist(s): Francis Crick - molecular biologist, physicist, and neuroscientist. Cric was co-discoverer of the DNA molecule and played an important role in the revealing of the genetic code.
Currently reading up on: Music and its relation to neurology
Fave science news site(s): Sciam.com, Sciencedaily.com, Sciencenews.org