So there I am, all smug in my 99 Nerd Score and along comes a guy who builds an Apollo Guidance Computer in his basement. Not a software simulator, mind you (a nerdy exercise I can at least imagine), but an actual wire-wrapped reproduction. I am but a smudge of Dorito dust on the fingers of His Glorious Nerd Majesty.

Now, there is one way that I can recover high nerd cred, which is that I engage in nerdy sports like Frisbee and SCUBA diving. Most geekily, recently I've been working on being able to hold my breath for a really, really long time, a "sport" where high perfomance relies on not moving.