You know you're a nerd when...

Last night, the mighty Boilermaker basketball team decided that it didn't want to play the Ohio State team that awaited them on the court.  Thus, my day which I built up to epic proportions in my head ended before it started.  Literally, my cable company is based out of Michigan so I was stuck watching a crappy SEC 2OT game, and I never saw Purdue within 15 points of OSU.

With Purdue trying to hang on to their dignity I had to escape.  I am a loyal fan, but I was already pissed at my cable company and needed to take my mind off of the thrashing that OSU was giving Purdue.  (Every team has off nights and I liked the headline on the student newspaper this morning, "Not Even Close!")  I digress...so I turned the channel to comedy central for tosh.O and started looking for something else to do.  After checking my email and Facebook accounts I decided to tackle some Particle Design homework.  Yes, I choose to do homework to blow off some steam.  I actually got on a pretty good role until Excel decided that probability distributions were too hard for it.  And yes, I installed the Data Analysis add-in, but unless you know how to graph histograms with variable sized bins don't be hatin'! See below.  I finished 2 problems of 7 and felt somewhat better.

The x-axis numbers relate to the beginning of a bin.
They are clearly not the same size!  The overall area should add up to 1,
but it can't because of the unequal bins...damn you Excel!

It was not until I was laying in bed and thinking about the last problem that I realized that I had foregone watching Purdue basketball, however bad, to do homework....and I felt better about myself.  That got me thinking of the things I like to do for fun that are just plain nerdy.  For example;

-I own 3 types of Trivial Pursuit (Pop Culture, Wii video game, and the new Trivial Pursuit Steal) and have on more than one occasion had friends over just to play Trivial Pursuit.
-My top websites that I visit include PopSci.com, Gizmodo.com, io9.com, and pharmtech.com.  They rival my time spent on ESPN.com and facebook.com easily.
-Every sci-fi movie is ultimately interesting to me because I ponder the reality of the situation.  Could something like this happen? You never know.

The list could go on and I know I'm going to get that comment that says, "Hey Matt, you are nerd!"  I understand that I just thought I would share that little insight with you all.  So, if you want, send my your "You know you're a nerd when..." story and I'll post it in the Friday Fragments!