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[mrv3000]

Just ordered my overpriced tickets to go see the Dead Sea Scrolls. Why yes, I am a nerd. Have we met?

(Heh. A few people can attest to this when I ditched them in Boston. Well...they probably ditched me. While they shopped I did things like visit the Old North Church and go to the MIT museum. Hooray for the MIT museum! Gears! And things that spin! And drip oil! And you could push them!! I need to go lie down now.)

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[spacefiend.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. Dude, the best thing in Boston (at least when I was in middle school, which was the only time I've been) was the Computer Museum. My mother and grandmother went looking at churches, and my dad and I hit the Computer Museum. It was great! There was a trackball bigger than I was! So I'm totally with you on the nerd stuff.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Awwww! Yeah, I'd totally be digging the giant trackball. :D

[spacefiend.livejournal.com]

It was great. It was basically a giant computer you could walk through, complete with a keyboard and the giant trackball. It took both hands for me to push the keys on the keyboard, too. (Can you spot the engineers in my family, by any chance? :) We are ginormonerds.)

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

That would be a kick! (And no, it's totally not obvious. Heh.)

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

I have seen them in the Amman Museum in Jordan. And at the time, I was still good enough with the language that I could make out words and phrases.

So yeah, all over the nerd parts. :)

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

That is so completely cool. Really.

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

Oooo. *adds the MIT museum to list of things to do when I finally get to visit Boston*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

It was very cool and fed my inner geek nicely. :D

http://web.mit.edu/museum/

I am...Übernerd!!!

[ginamak.livejournal.com]

Then what does it say about me that I am filled with jealousy?

Re: I am...Übernerd!!!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Nerd wannabe?

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[ginamak.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think I passed wannabe status years ago; probably when I was eleven and lost my shit in the British Museum upon seeing the Rosetta Stone in person.

Well, I mean, come ON. It was the ROSETTA STONE. Who wouldn't get a little giddy?

Re: I am...Übernerd!!!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

OMG!

Yeah, if I ever make it to London, I'm planning on 2 days for the British Museum.

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[ginamak.livejournal.com]

I'm planning on 2 days for the British Museum.

Easily. I am DYING to get back there--hopefully as soon as next year, oh pleaseohpleaseohplease.

[kammgirl.livejournal.com]

You would love the Franklin Institute here in Philly.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I would.

[kammgirl.livejournal.com]

I on behalf of the city of Brotherly Love extend an invite.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

*pencils in for next decade or two*

[scifijunkie.livejournal.com]

The Dead Sea Scrolls were awesome! I went when it was in Seattle.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Oh yay! Glad to know it's a good show!!

Hopefully it won't be as crowded as the King Tut exhibit in L.A.

[sensiblecat.livejournal.com]

I just finished a fantastic novel about the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It's called "Resurrection" by a writer called Tucker Malarky. Anybody heard of it? It's American, I don't think it's even out over here yet.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Haven't heard of it. Might have to check it out!

[jesidres.livejournal.com]

YAY! Fellow nerd, next time you're in Boston, I should give you the full tour...seeing as I can you into 95% of the museums for free, and have worked in...85% of them? Ok, maybe more like 50%. Old North Church is nice, although what's really cool is half the building now to the left of it are built onto the old graveyard...and really, Paul Revere actually had three cohorts, one of which was only there because he was visiting his mistress....


Um.


*Blush*

This is what happens when you get a Museum Education Masters in Boston. I think the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum still has my soul in down payment.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Okay, that is very very cool! *fangirls you*

[jesidres.livejournal.com]

Well, this is a problem, because I fangirl you....

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I think then they cancel each other out...

[nandamai]

Dead Sea Scrolls = yay!

Did I tell you that on the fourth of July I went up to Old North to see a change bell ringing demonstration? It was very cool. I've been thinking of signing up with their change ringers ever since. I figured maybe I'd have more time when the summer ended, but so far ... nope.

MIT Museum however still = meh. :P

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Did I tell you that on the fourth of July I went up to Old North to see a change bell ringing demonstration? It was very cool. I've been thinking of signing up with their change ringers ever since. I figured maybe I'd have more time when the summer ended, but so far ... nope.

I'd never even heard of something like that. You know...I think I'd find that oddly relaxing.

MIT Museum however still = meh. :P

But...oil! And gears!

[nandamai]

I'd never even heard of something like that. You know...I think I'd find that oddly relaxing.

It's pretty rare in the US -- something like 40 churches I think. It could be relaxing, yeah, eventually. The Old North ringers require you to apprentice for a year or something before they let you at the actual bells during services. !!!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Wow! That would be rather cool, though.