Comments on: How To Be A Hot Nerd

By: Jarrod@ Optimistic Journey

Jarrod@ Optimistic Journey — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:08:59 +0000

This headline called my name when I saw your reply to one of Ryan’s post on Planting Dollars. I said to myself, “I gotta check that out!!”

This is great information! I agree especially when you were talking about over impressing others. You want to be in the moment but there is a certain nervousness that we exude when we try to over impress. We should just be natural.

Dressing is another thing that resonates with me. I think that we should always dress to impress. We always show others how to treat us and when we go around dressed like we don’t care about ourselves, then we give others permission to think the same of us!

Rich information!
Jarrod
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By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:37:17 +0000

HI Mary, you are so right about the most powerful people in the world being nerds as kids. I should go find some pictures of myself with my glasses when I was a child :)

I totally agree with introducing yourself to the kids sitting by themselves in the cafeteria. They are bright and intelligent and the cultivation of their power will hopefully get them started on the path to the great things they can do much earlier than otherwise.

I appreciate you stopping by Mary, you are welcome back anytime!

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:52:46 +0000

I was a nerdy girl and it was pretty miserable, so when I realized that my son was destined to be a nerd, I told him the most powerful people in the world were probably nerds as kids, we all know that computer geeks rule!!!

I said don’t wait for people to invite you in to their world, you go out and find people, you do the inviting. When you see some poor nerdy kid sitting alone in the cafeteria (Ugh – shudder!) go over there and introduce yourself. Reach out to other nerds, they will appreciate it.

And when that boy graduated from high school and they called his name, the stands erupted in applause. He brought together so many people and made so many outsiders part of a community that it just brought a tear to my eye. Nerds are good, kind, smart, wonderful people who just need to work on their small talk and fashion sense. Great blog.

By: theWife

theWife — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:48:40 +0000

Jeremy, you’re making it sound like you have a combover–which you don’t!

In my humble opinion, the best thing to do about a receding hairline is to “embrace” it and not try to cover it up too much. Most men with a receding hairline look better when they keep their hair short and not try to hide or make up for the changing hairline by growing their hair out long.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:44:04 +0000

Hey there, G. Lover. That’s a good question about the hair line. For me, I make sure to never cut the front of my hair, particularly on the sides of the front where there is the ‘crease’ to the side of the head. See my above pictures, particularly the one in the top left.

So the front of my hair is long and I comb it such that it covers where my hair line is not quite what it used to be and it looks like my hair line is still fine. Hope that helps :)

By: Gay Lover

Gay Lover — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:59:05 +0000

What to do about your hairline though?

This is a hilarious, and delusional post! love it!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:50:59 +0000

Here goes, replying to this comment, I think it’s going to work – big thanks for the plugins.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:41:34 +0000

Sweet, thanks Ryan, going to do that right now.

By: Ryan @ Planting Dollars

Ryan @ Planting Dollars — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:38:51 +0000

Almost forgot, I also use the commentluv plugin which allows people to add a backlink from their site below their comments. This encourages more comments on the site as well.

By: Ryan @ Planting Dollars

Ryan @ Planting Dollars — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:37:16 +0000

If you’re using wordpress there’s a plugin called “wordpress thread comment”, which is what I use to respond to comments. You’re also going to want to add the “subscribe to comments” plugin so someone can be notified when you do respond otherwise they won’t really think to come back to the site.

Hope that helps!