The End
Hi everyone,
This has been a great 3 year adventure. A Nerd’s Life is my first blog, and first blog I am proud of.
I feel that I need a break from blogging, and along with moving and lack of a good and stable Internet connection until sometime in the near future, I am taking a leave from blogging.
So for the very last time on this blog: Hello all, my name is Ryan, and I’m a nerd. Yes, I admit it.
And if you’ve been with me for a while (or went through the archives back to November of 2008), you will understand the last two lines of my goodbye:
Peace,
Ryan
Am I Really This Great?!?!
First, I was awarded the number one best teen blogger prize. Now, Shard from Shards of Infinity presented me with my second blogging award! I’ m suppose to follow a few things according to the rules of this whole thing (actually, I’m just using Shard’s post as a template):
1. Thank and link the person who nominated you.
I think I already said who nominated me, but I haven’t thanked him yet. So, thanks to Shard for giving me this award!
2. Share seven random facts about yourself.
1. I like the color blue.
2. I’m the type of person that looks up something on Wikipedia, and keeps clicking on links in the first article. Sometimes, I end up having over 10 tabs open. I learn a lot though, even if it is useless information (“How to build a lightsaber”).
3. I constantly refresh Engadget and Lifehacker.
4. I like the way my glasses complement my face.
5. I actually like my face.
6. I journal in hopes of someone from the future will want to learn about me someday, or that I will be useful to future historians by showing how daily life was back in the early 2000′s.
7. We’re already on number 7? Here’s another fact: I spent a whole week total modifying my Optimus One’s (Android phone) homescreens. Then I changed launchers. Rinse, repeat.
3. Pass the award along to 15 deserving blog buddies.
Jennifer Avventura, Kymlee, and Raywoman, in no particular order. I don’t think I can pass it back to Shard, but I would if I could (oops, accidental rhyme 
). And Shard has already nominated Thaumaturgist, so I’ll skip her too.
4. Contact those buddies to congratulate them.
Because I linked to everyone I nominated, they are going to get pingbacks from me. Because I like the quickest, more efficient way of doing things (no offense, Shard, who took the liberty of telling everyone they were nominated), I’m not going to leave a bunch of comments. 
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- Shine Get! (shardsofinfinity.wordpress.com)
Auto Tagger Facebook App
Image via CrunchBase
I’m making a Facebook app that can auto-tag faces in your photos. It’s being created mainly because I needed something like it as a backbone for a bigger project. Also, it’s because this is pretty fun, and a good first Facebook app experience.
Here’s my description on how it will be built:
Auto Tagger outline
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Training:
1. User adds photo to album.
2. User tags a person i.e: Ryan
3. [redacted] to put Ryan tag in database.
Auto Tagging:
1. User adds photo to album.
2. [redacted] to read database. App finds face similar to that of Ryan Lee.
3. Tags face as Ryan.
Cleaning up the database:
1. Somehow create a GUI for [redacted]
Settling Down…Sort Of
My move to Hong Kong is complete (somewhat). My family is staying with my grandmother until we find a place of our own to call home.
Until then, I’m stuck with using a tethered iPhone 4 data plan for Internet, so I won’t be posting so much. I will try, however.
I’m kinda tired right now; I will try to make a better post soon instead of one like this excuse of a blog post.
Writer’s Challenge #2 Prompt
Ok everyone,
You can jump into this contest at anytime. Just post a comment below saying you want to join.
So far we have three challengers signed up (officially).
The prompt for this challenge is:
Write a fact-based fictional story about an important event. A fact-based fictional story is something like the book The Accidental Billionaires, on which the movie The Social Network is based on.
When you are done with your story, email it to me at ryan@nerdlife.tk, or if you have a blog, post it on your blog and comment on this post with the link to your story.
Ready, set, write (or type)!
How much self-deprecation is too much?
I have gone through some recent posts I’ve written, and I’ve been so self-deprecating lately.
To avoid rewriting a phrase, go look at the title of this post really quick.
Welcome back. You know, I should have just typed the question again, because telling you to go look at the title took more words than the title itself.
So, tell me, do you think I’m too self-deprecating? Am I overdoing it?
Obviously (or maybe not so?), I’m not trying to put myself down.
Full on Fruit
Have you ever been full on fruit? It’s a weird feeling.
You get the satisfaction of having a full stomach, but there’s that…sensation you can feel. It’s difficult to describe. But it does not feel good to me.
Here, try it yourself and tell me what you think. Go eat a meal; eat enough to not be hungry anymore, but do not fill yourself up. Then go get some apples, kiwis, oranges, or other fruit of choice, and eat a full plate of the good stuff.
Or, you know, you could just eat all fruit. But that might feel really bad, even worse than doing the method I listed above.
I just realized that I wrote a full post without saying much at all.
So the world ended yesterday…
…and I’m still here. And my family. And my friends. And everyone up, down, left, right, across the street.
He still had time to get out of the U.S. before getting whipped by thousands of angry Christians, but I guess he didn’t. I’m waiting for him to get beat up now. *shouts*Anytime guys!*shouts*
That was a terrible attempt at being funny right there.
I knew that the Rapture wasn’t going to happen yesterday, because:
1. I’m not stupid.
2. I’m not dumb.
3. I’m not idiotic.
4. My dad was on the other side of the world for a business trip, and it was already past the “Rapture” over there. (See, time traveling is real!)
You know what? Just disregard this post. It’s a horrible try at being hilarious, and I typed this right when I woke up.
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