Being A Nerd Really Pays Off Sometimes.

People Are Using Gps Systems To Find Millions Of Little Hidden Objects Throughout The World - Often As Simple As A Piece Of Tupperware Hidden In The Woods. You Go To A Website, You Get The Latitude And Longitude To Get The Specific Location Of A Certain Specific Hiding Space, And Then You Go There And See If You Can Find It.

Knowing Lots Of Answers But Being A Millisecond Slow On The Buzzer Is Indeed Very Frustrating.

When You Make A Decision You Need Facts. If Those Facts Are In Your Brain, They're At Your Fingertips. If They're All In Google Somewhere You May Not Make The Right Decision On The Spur Of The Moment.

There Must Be Something Innate About Maps, About This One Specific Way Of Picturing Our World And Our Relation To It, That Charms Us, Calls To Us, Won’t Let Us Look Anywhere Else In The Room If There’s A Map On The Wall.

Twitter Makes You A Comedian In The Same Way That Digital Cameras Make You A Photographer