I agree with your rant.
Ah, no, pretty sure Bob Jones University would be opposed to online courses to. This is about greed not climate change denial and gay marriage.

I mean, yes, stayed in China. The stuff down there, with the extradition treaty thread.... nevermind.

He was arrested in June 2011 by U.S. agents when they lured him to a meeting in Saipan where he believed he was delivering 20 gigabytes of data to the representatives of U.S. businessmen. Saipan, an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and like the Atlantic island of Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the U.S., giving American authorities jurisdiction.
No Navy Seals or government conspiracies, just an old fashioned luring operation.

Oh, RAHHHHHA EEEEEH LY?
Nerd -> 1951, U.S. student slang, probably an alteration of 1940s slang nert "stupid or crazy person," itself an alteration of nut.
The word turns up in a Dr. Seuss book from 1950 ("If I Ran the Zoo"), which may have contributed to its rise. Adjective nerdy is from 1978.

Geek -> Probably variant of Scottish geck meaning fool, from Middle Low German geck.

Mine came from dictionary.com where did you get your etymology?

Geeks memorize things: baseball starting line ups, programming languages, all the dialogue in Star Wars, etc.
Nerds like fantasy, sci-fi, and anything that lets them escape reality and themselves. So why Pokemon instead of peyote? I don't know.
You can be both, either, or neither.

She was a saint.

King calling for Snowden's head? People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, or in this case,
people that live in Ireland shouldn't get involved in the IRA (completely justified in their actions according to King).

Software engineering? We don't need no stink'in software engineering!

Cause that's where some really embarrassing shit is stored about me.

I burn easy and hate hot weather.

Advanced calculus/linear algebra is a must for game engine development. I try to read articles about rotating 3D objects.... *WHOOSH* over my head. But I've done well for 13 years doing IT client/server programming and just looking up the occasional algorithm for lat/long distance calculations, permutations, etc. Still need to be able to translate math formulae into a computer language though.

It's not a mansion, but it's mine.

Right now, Monsanto's GM wheat is RoundUp resistant, but how long before it requires RoundUp or something else. Monsanto has been working on a terminator gene that would kill the plant if a chemical is not applied at regular intervals. So that gene, through cross-pollination, is spread to non-GM wheat. Followed by a shortage of the gene-therapy spray or chemical and famine becomes a very real possibility. http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/Pages/terminator-seeds.aspx - Paraphrase "Monsanto would never ever use this technology... unless it became profitable... we are using it now and not telling anyone."

I could set up a publishing site on the web and have it funded using online ads. I'll call it TestTube.com. Some material will be age/education level restricted.

Greetings fellow oldster. :)
Very similar development path only I went from Pascal to Perl (early dot com boom language) and than Java.