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Re: Jocks vs Nerds



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Being a weightlifter, rollerblader, swimmer and yoga buff who owns four
calculators, codes for fun and loves quantitative analysis, I am perhaps very
qualified to point out that being both a "jock + nerd" makes me a "jerk." Or is
that a "nork?"

Thomas "Don't Tell Mom" Alexander
Tanned, Ripped and Bespectacled in Boulder, CO



Ed Winters  wrote: 

Mark,Then you will like this
site:http://www.wagoneers.com/pages/RocketCar/rockit.htmlEd----- Original
Message ----- From: "Mark Brown" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 3:31
PMSubject: Re: Jocks vs Nerds| | Hello Bill,| | nothing beats the fear and
excitement of building your own gas jet| turbine engine and finding something
to hide behind while it revs up| to 40,000 plus rpms.| | except maybe the first
time you fire off your liquid propelled rocket| engine and it shoots out a
blast at 2.4 mach and you wonder, now what| can i strap this thing to?| | then
of course there's the cray and the feeling of electricity in the| air, and the
minuscule odor of its coolant. i'll take the nerd toys| any day.| | BW> Funny
and true, but all the money in the world can't buy| BW> a jump-shot, that
feeling of "running to daylight,"| BW> the rush of carving down a 2000 foot
vertical| BW> on fresh powder, or your health....just ask| BW> Paul Allen ;-)|
| BW> BW| |