Hardwick is... The Nerdist

[Phirm]

Hello, friends and avatars of friends. I noticed that there has yet to be a thread for Hardwick's new site: "The Nerdist". So...

You will enjoy it if you like at least one of the following:

1. Chris Hardwick
2. Chris Hardwick's writing (including live performances thereof)
3. Comedy in general
4. Comedy in specific (hereto regarding "nerdly" things: gadgetry, gametry, geometry... xetry+1)

Here comes the hard sell (come on!), anyone who loves comedy should spend the next 15 seconds reading any one of the following recent posts (they're all bite-size*):

nerdist.com/2008/07/awkward-hands-c
nerdist.com/2008/07/robot-barman-br
nerdist.com/2008/07/its-3g-iphone-d

Those are my favorites so far. He posts a couple a day, so it's a fun site to check in on.

All told,
Mike

* If you thought that should have read "byte-size", you're either The Nerdist's target audience, you're Andrew Solmssen, or you're both.

[punkdc]

You had me at geometry!

[heatherm]

it definitely should've said byte-size

(i love your new avatar)

[brewcaster]

it definitely should've said byte-size

(i love your new avatar)

That joke mega-bytes.

[punkdc]

When Chris has a bad show in Canada does he say that giga-bytes?

[brewcaster]

Punkdc - you were 60 seconds late.

[Ivan]

This blog, it's great.

[Nickflans]

i like videogames too! This is my favorite 'ist' because I don't worry about being criticised by it!

[gloshi]

Haha, "Awkward Hands" Calhoun! Awesome reviews! It looks like I've got a new site to frequent.

[NFox]

And here I thought I spent too much time on the internet before. Looks like I won't be seeing the sun for a while...at least until I read every single post on the site. I wish there was some way for me to manage to stay at home, reading all of Hardwick's awesome blog posts, AND be an active member of society, but as we all know that would only be possible if the function defining my position was left unobserved...which might be a little difficult on the macroscopic level. So it looks like that function is bound to collapse, leaving me here, in front of my computer.

-Nick

[Mindyjoy]

This blog makes me laugh every day. Thank you, Chris Hardwick.

[solmssen]

...reading any one of the following recent posts (they're all bite-size*):

...

* If you thought that should have read "byte-size", you're either The Nerdist's target audience, you're Andrew Solmssen, or you're both.

Hey! I am the Nerdist's target audience, and I am Andrew Solmssen. And if you want to get explicit about it, those posts each have 2 or more ASCII characters, which renders them bigger than byte-size, which by definition would make them exactly one character. Which for some reason reminds me of the old joke that by definition every program contains at least one bug and can be reduced by one instruction, therefore every program can be reduced to one instruction that doesn't work. So there you have it, if those posts are in fact byte-sized, Hardwick has executed that very reductio-ad-absurdum on his own writing.

It's late. I should be in bed.

---- Andrew Solmssen, providing the best in Internet-based pedantry since 0x07C9, A.D.

[SailRacer]

This site is great. Thanks for pointing it out Phirm.

Solmssen... I'm still digesting the nerdgasm that is your post.

[heatherm]

So there you have it, if those posts are in fact byte-sized, Hardwick has executed that very reductio-ad-absurdum on his own writing.

this is amazing and you are amazing

[heatherm]

to keep this on topic:

chris, have you ever talked to the other chris hardwick? he is a nerd of a different sort.

[SailRacer]

I had never heard the Rodeohead song before (posted on page 2 http://www.nerdist.com/page/2/). I LOVE it!

[Theyear2525now.]

And how do you manage to maintain both The Nerdist and The Colored Canary Aviary?

http://www.aaawebmaster.com/canary/links.htm

[heatherm]

we've been acknowledged, fellow nerds!

http://www.nerdist.com/2008/07/the-other-chris.html

[rutabega]

we've been acknowledged, fellow nerds!

http://www.nerdist.com/2008/07/the-other-chris.html

I hope your mind is wearing a condom cuz it's about to get blown by a stranger...

This might be my favorite sentence ever.

[smartbunny]

I read this as Hardwick is... The Nerdiest.