Talk Nerdy To Me

There is a lot of cool nerd-related design-y stuff on the internet at the moment.

A geek love poem on a t-shirt ... does It get any better?

Signs You're Becoming A Design Geek ...

From The Crestock Blog.

• You giggle whenever you use the colours F0CCED, EFF0FF and 44DDDD
• You’re in the sun and you look around for a Drop Shadow to sit under.
• Seing someone use Lens Flare or Comic Sans adversely affects your blood-pressure
• You maintain a grid system for your refrigerator magnets.
• You sit at work for eight hours straight just looking at your monitor, waiting for a spark of inspiration that doesn't come.
• You're up 'til 5am because you came up with the best idea ever while brushing your teeth.
• You know Lorem Ipsum by heart.
• Your kid knows Lorem Ipsum by heart.
• The preschool teacher complains your child won't colour inside or outside the lines – only indicate colours on a separate sheet.
• Activating your entire font collection makes your computer crash – and you're running OSX.
• You deliberately butcher your perfectly cross browser compatible site in IE by placing a “Too Cool for IE” banner on it.
• You prefer a Layer Style of 50% Opacity (or less) on your wife’s Satin.
• You spend $200 on a font for your personal website because "it's the only one where the lower-case g is just right..."
• Looking at a menu makes you go "hmmm, ITC Baskerville italic" rather than "mmmm, lunch!"
• And when you finally order, you go for Layer Based Slices with Grain Texture...
• You use words about fonts you dislike that other normal people reserve for fascist dictators and serial killers.
• Apple+Z is the first thing that goes through your mind if you drop and break something.
• You refer to colleagues as Strict, Transitional, Loose and the Future Unemployed.
• You refer to your privates as "the Magic Wand".
• You actually understand this post and pass it on to your friends.

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