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Adulting Etiquette Mrs Enginerd Nerd Stuff

Of Nerdaphores and Slacktivism

Most of my friends are nerds and as such, we come up with  nerd wisdom all the time. To properly convey the message of our philosophical sessions, made up terminology is employed. [Side note: Our employer is infamous for making up jargon and acronyms that no human can decipher so it rubbed off on us peons […]

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Game Reviews Mrs Enginerd Nerd Stuff Women Who Kick Ass In Gaming And Beyond

Cheater!! You turned the sound OFF…

Tetris isn’t the mind twisting, nail bitting, move your controller buttons and scream at the TV masterpiece Nintendo intended without the speeding music. As an extra element to the experience, the score of the game is designed to engage all of your senses and submerge you in the gameplay. Heart rates go up just by […]

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Mrs Enginerd Poetry

Life’s a Journey

There was a road less traveled, A winding, unkempt, delapidated trail With lots of promise and road blocks. It wouldn’t be easy to travel it but it was worth the journey. I dared to dream, to hope and breathe Taking the road less traveled would challenge and excite me. However tough the going got, I […]

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Comic Books and Super Heroes Mrs Enginerd Nerd Stuff

Disney Tsum Tsum: Update!

This is how my sister’s collection looks a few months after the original post. Still trying to get over the Empire Strikes Back exclusive park ones that I left behind when I went to Disney World in Jan 2017: Adorable!! Original post: Disney’s Tsum Tsum – http://wp.me/p6gfEH-2FQ

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Book Reviews Love and Marriage Mrs Enginerd STEM

QuirkBooks: Keeping Nerd Awesome One Book At A Time

During the Emerald City Comic Con I had the idea of swinging by the QuirkBooks booth about an hour before the convention ended and walked into a frenzied discounted product sale! Woop woop! Their add in the event’s program guide piqued my interest because they carried a book called Wonder Women and once I got […]

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Comic Books and Super Heroes Mrs Enginerd Travel TV Shows and Movies

Emerald City Comic Con

The ECCC is a Seattle area based event where comic artists and all things geek coincide to give puny humans a chance to experience cosplay, sci-fi and nerd/geek culture. Film and TV stars along comic book legends honor guests with their presence, charging for photo ops and autographs. Woop woop! This is how I met […]

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Mrs Enginerd Nerd Stuff TV Shows and Movies

Humans (AMC)

What if synthetics, or synths, could become sentient? Part robot, part human, these entities could now feel and experience life like most humans would. The catch? Many of these newly reborn cyborgs have no idea how long they have been online and asleep. They would most certainly want a purpose other than to serve. They […]

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Mrs Enginerd Nerd Stuff TV Shows and Movies

American Tourister: The Official Luggage of Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland

Fresh off my Disney World trip I came across these gems on display ay my local Samsonite outlet mall store. You can choose between Chewbacca, R2-D2, C3PO and the New Order’s Stormtrooper. The bags come in carry on, 21″, and traditional sizes and are on sale now (President’s Day) for 50% off! This is a […]

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Adulting Mrs Enginerd

Supporting Your Friends’ Dreams Shouldn’t Be Optional

I was raised by a flexible old school family that taught me to always patronize home grown products, services and peeps’s wacky business ventures. For example, my mom didn’t necessarily need 20 lbs of laundry detergent but if a friend was starting a career as an Amway sales rep or their own laundry detergent shop […]

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Mrs Enginerd TV Shows and Movies

Passengers (2016)

What would you do if your hibernation pod broke and you awoke 30 years into a 120 year voyage? With 90 years to go, and no means to turn back to Earth, James “Jim” Preston (Chris Pratt), and Aurora Lane (Jennifer Lawrence) is faced with the ultimate questions: “Why me?” and “Why now?”. This movie […]