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My girlfriend (astr0babe) made this costume from scratch and entered it into a contest on Facebook. (For those unfamiliar, it's Illyria from the series "Angel". If you'd like to vote for her, all you have to do is click the pic below then press 'like'. I hope you enjoy!!

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You can also click (here) to see the details of how she made her costume! Hope you enjoy!

Are there any Hot Nerds out there who like shooting Locusts in Gears of War 2 Horde mode? My username is crystallinity. please add me! I'm up for plenty of other games as well.

Echo… echo……

Has this community effectively died down? Is it that all y'all have stopped being as active on LJ or is it just this community that you're no longer posting to?

Seems that, at the very least, people have flocked to different pastures for their hot nerdy application fixes. Or did we just stop recruiting?

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

What's a social activity-loving guy like me doing alone in his apartment in San Francisco on a Saturday night?

Watching The Big Bang Theory, that's what!

And y'all should watch it too if you aren't already. Seriously.

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I just found a great article on MSNBC via FARK entitled, "Could inner zombie be controlling your brain?" It discusses how our unconscious minds may be more in control of our bodies than we give them credit for. The article in itself is just neat as hell, but continually referring to the unconscious as a zombie made all sorts of happy. Here's the first part of the article so you can decide if you want to read it or not.

Their research raised the disturbing possibility that much of what we think and do is thought and done by an unconscious part of the brain — an inner zombie."

I'm a Dean's List Biology major entering into the chiropractic graduate program next quarter, and he's a huge WWII nerd, specifically the European theater. We are getting into jogging shape, just so that we can run Currahee and have a shared experience with the Band of Brothers.

Our wedding ceremony was written and preformed by a good friend of ours. As big Babylon 5 fans, our friend switched to an Centauri accent and finished the ceremony from that point of view. Then there was Batman, which we snuck into the wedding in subtle ways. I had a lego Batman keychain in by flowers. Our cake toppers were Batman and Zatanna action figures (which I added a veil to Zatanna).

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There must have been some kind of hot_nerds vibe in the air yesterday. I found myself thinking about the comm. while I was getting ready in the morning, then I came home last night and saw that hot_nerds had reanimated itself. Hooray!

I am definitely a nerd: English professor with a fixation on studying 18th-century marriage. I'm not sure my boyfriend fiancé (just got engaged a few weeks ago, w00t!) is a nerd in the usual sense--he only has a H.S. education. BUT he is scarily adept at repairing anything, he is bilingual (French/English--he is Québecois), and he is obsessed with ballroom dancing as am I. We met in a dance class and are going to our 2nd ballroom competition next weekend. Best of all, he is an avid admirer of my nerd-dom.

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We are having 2-sided wedding invitations with English on one side and French on the other. That's not quite as cool as XML, I freely admit.

Hallo hot_nerds!

My boyfriend and I have been going out since May 2007. We met by chance, in an awkward online message exchange that left us set up with a spontaneous midnight coffee date.

We are both graduating next spring from our respective colleges which happen to be different and yet right across the street from one another - Princeton and Westminster Choir College.

He's a opera singer, I'm an aerospace engineer.

Why it's nerdy:
- He owns and wears more makeup than I do
- My major is almost entirely men, his major is almost entirely women
- I live in the lab, he lives on the stage
- I'm working for the Navy, and he's performing with a professional light opera company
- We are taking a class on Roman history together next semester just for kicks

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Here's to hoping our opposite lifestyles will mesh well enough to combat the craziness :)

Hey hot_nerds! Aww, I miss this community. Since joining the comm. I have graduated from college with a BS/MS in neuroscience, worked for two years in a lab, and I'm just about to start a PhD program this fall! But this is a post about nerd love.

My boyfriend followed me from Boston to Atlanta to support me as I pursue this degree. We met in 2004 when he was a university senior and I was a sophomore. He found me on some social networking communities and figured out that we were attending the same college and had grown up in the same medium-sized town, so we got introduced and hit it off. He brings balance to our nerd relationship, as I'm in biology and he double-majored in literature and computer science. He gives me books to read and fixes up our home network, I explain things about DNA and use my knowledge of anatomy to give good... backrubs. ;-)

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Hi hot_nerds, how are you? I agree with timothytoastman, this community is fun when it is active! I've met so many cool people though HN, many of whom I still correspond with since i joined in *gasp* 2003. Damn, we're getting to be old nerds!

Anyway, I will continue with Matt's theme post. I met my boyfriend in 2005 in graduate school, though we didn't start dating until last year. He was the TA for choir, and I, a little chemistry nerd with a passion for music, saw nothing wrong with a little hot TA on TA action (though i was singing for him at the time!) Now he's got his doctorate in choral conducting and i'm (fingers crossed!) only two years from mine.

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