You’re talking about a guy, having scholarships to Harvard and Yale but his family couldn’t afford the train tickets, he went to a closer local college, denied from the only fraternity, and in true Revenge of the Nerds fashion, rallied the outcasts, started his own, and shortly became student body president.

Also, how about Kevin Smith?

“There’s that news van again…”

Paul.

Paul, I just know that you were wildly excited as a child if you saw the Action News van driving around. I bet even today you still get a tiny repressed thrill if you see one.

(One of these days we’ll have to talk about other Philly celebs of our childhood like Dr. Shock and Captain Noah. Let me know when you’re ready to do a cover of “Send Your Pictures”.)

Madeline Kahn unfortunately is no longer with us. Though I would vote for her.

Sarah Vowell is a good historian. I have read her Assassination Vacation and The Wordy Shipmates about the Puritans. She can replace Doris Kearns Goodwin as Presidential Historian

Since then she earned a degree in math from UCLA(graduated with honors). Then she wrote several books to encourage girls to get into math.

I think she exemplifies your descriptions. She’s a math geek, has enough social skills to survive in Hollywood, is a real person, and I have it on good athority (my husband) she’s still HOT.

P.S. Tonight’s show in Boston was a blast. Thanks Paul and Storm!

Yes, I know Wil played Wesley. I have forgiven, but not forgotten.

And the Department of Nerds should call on all nerds to ask what they can do for their country.

I think they decided it wasn’t awesome because I also sent a photo in which Paul and Storm were my minions.

Ann: Jan 2nd. So anywhere between 2 and 8 weeks from now! I’m getting *very* uncomfy now!

Anyway, I just popped by to mention that a friend bought ‘cookies’ to lunch today, and they turned out to be things surprisingly similar to Jaffa Cakes. They’re called Soft Cakes, and I can’t remember the brand but they’re available in Migros. (But then, so are Pim’s, which redirect to Jaffa Cakes in wikipedia, so it’s not as if we were short of Jaffa Cakes alternatives.) Also, they are actually orange flavoured and not apricot, which fits better with the NZ-English perception of the word ‘Jaffa’,

(By the way, Percephene, I’m right before your proto-mini-minion in the gallery, and feeling especially dejected because Storm never emailed me to say how awesome it was.)

Like a non-British Jonathan Creek. If you haven’t heard of it, look it up! Best show ever! Beats all the CSIs, SVUs, NCISs of the world hands down.

Hell yes! I second this nomination. We need to get him in charge of these STAT!

But while we’re on the Star Trek train, I would have to say that Wesley Crusher was not nearly so hardcore as Lt. Cmdr. Data. The cool factor of being an android did obscure his geekiness a tad, but I maintain that beneath his cold metal exterior beat the heart of a total nerd..