What I really need to do is get off my ass and go to the chemist to get my sleeping pill perscription filled. I'm approcahing 100 hours without sleep,a nd as you've noticed, it has effects.

But when you talk, it's quite obvious your "intellectual superiority" is nothing but an inflated ego. That sentence should be: It's not the nerd's fault he's gifted or It's not the nerds' fault they're gifted.

The word they is not a singular, gender neutral pronoun in English. It's plural. I know you and your ego are almost like two separate things, but you really still only count as one!

He must mean '100 hours without lieing down and sleeping for 8 hours'. You can survive on 2-3 hour naps, I've done it for weeks at a time. Once you get used to it it's not so bad.

Although it looks like the thread has been derailed, I hate new years resolutions.
Why can't they be done when the problem is recognized?

Having said that, my new years resolution is to quit gambling and cut back significantly on my drinking habit.
It wasn't my choice to make them new years resolutions, the girlfriend told me they were my new years resolutions. As a matter of fact, I decided to stop gambling early December.

This year I would like to be more financially responsible. My finances have gone from great to horrible over the past 4 years and I'd like to correct it. This decision wasn't made as a new years resolution though, I decided this when I lost over $2,300 in 2 hours at the Casino betting table max ($100) on three seats in blackjack.

I'm not lending anyone any money this year, either. People are fucking idiots.

The problem is that I can't avoid the house games (blackjack/craps). Otherwise I'd continue playing poker.

Poker is profitable, but not as much as it use to be. I made a killing from July-October 2005, but then a lot of the walking ATM machines (as I call them) stopped playing poker and a couple of them started playing better. I can only pull a few hundred bucks a month these days, if I'm lucky. It used to be about $80-$300 per night 8/10 nights.

It's not as fun either. There are more jerks playing than before and the number of piss poor players has reduced significantly.

They give their money willfully.

They just don't understand what "fold" means.

One lousy misplaced apostrophy, and I'm relegated to the level of intellectually deficient with a supersized ego. Oh the hurt and the pain.

Why do you assume the nerd is a he?

If I ever did have a new years resolution, it would be to pay off my mortgage before the year's out

I was going to also point out the correct way of gender neutrality, but didn't want to get too verbose. Before feminism, nobody cared. Female authors typically used she and male authors typically used he, and everyone was happy.

But now, one is supposed to say "he or she" to be politically correct. If you are writing something lengthy, you are supposed to alternate your examples between male and female people.

But I stick with using masculine when it's probably a male person or the ambiguoity doesn't hurt and feminine when it's probably a female person. In cases where I want to be clear I'm including both genders, I'll use the cumbersome "he or she."

Erm, of course. Of... course. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some free-style rapping to do in preparation for my next social engagement.

geek: a person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked; an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity

nerd: an unstylish, unattractive, or socially inept person; especially : one slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits

So you have it backwards: it's geeks who are the cool ones.* I seem to remember reading that years ago, a person who would prefer to read a book on a plane instead of conversing with their fellow passengers, or engaging in sing-alongs, would be considered a geek.

*Unless you find yourself biting the heads off chickens. That's not cool.