About Me, My Blogs, and My Nerdiness

I already have a personal blog, and a blog with my professional information, but I feel compelled to start a third blog.

Here's why:

1. When I started my personal blog (in 2007!) it had a small audience of my 20-something peers, and I felt like I could write about anything. But since I predominantly wrote about windsurfing, marine biology, and environmentalism, I built an audience who were mostly interested in those things, and I got linked to from windsurfing sites and stuff. So now I feel like I'm betraying my followers if I post about something like video games or popular culture, because it's not what they want or expect.

2. Since getting a tech-savvy girlfriend in 2011 I've been re-introduced to video games, which I had rarely played since the 1990s. (My re-introduction is described in this post.) It's awesome being able to share my nerdy side with my girlfriend, but I'd like to be able to blog about it, too, and I think Jimbo's Nerdy Reflections is the way to do it.



Anyway, to finish out this first post, I'll just include some basic stats on myself and what nerdy stuff I'm stoked on at the moment.

Name: James
Gender: Male
Born: Seattle, 1979
Education: PhD
Job: Marine Biologist
Noble Pursuits: Windsurfing, Science, Nature, Politics, Fitness, Philosophy
Nerdy Pursuits: Video Games, Quirky Popular Culture
Video Game Systems: Nintendo Wii and MacBook at my apartment, Xbox 360 and PC at my girlfriend's.
Games Recently Played or In-Progress: Shareware DOOM (MacBook), Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword (Wii), Borderlands (Xbox 360), World of Warcraft (PC)

Watch this space for a rant about Skyward Sword.