If you haven’t heard of the TED Conference, you now have.
It’s the place I go to get some smarts into my weeny brain and feel connected to continuing my edumacation.
Neatly packaged into 18-minute (more or less) speeches and presentations, the smartest people in the world introduce conference-goers and video-watchers to the latest ideas Technology, Entertainment, and Design.
I know – it doesn’t sound like the best way to spend your precious interweb time away from Facebook or Twitter, but PLEASE trust me. Your mind will expand, your brain will overflow, and your time will be well-spent.
In the past year, I’ve been on and off the site listening to and watching TED videos from the smartest people in technology to the funniest people on the planet. And even Al Gore! I’m such a n.e.r.d. that I Netflixed the TED DVD, “The Future We Will Create: Inside the World of TED.” (Apparently I’ve now deemed Nexflix to be a verb. Kinda like Googling. I call dibs on the Wikipedia page.)
What, prey tel, is the point of all this conferencing and speaking? At the end of each year’s conference, the uber-geniuses attending and smarties speaking at TED vote on a “wish” will be granted. A “wish” is another term for “change the world through new ideas” whereby tons o’cash and effort is poured into the cause to make the world a better place.
Yeah, I know. SO out of my league.
TED is going on this week. Yet, I’m still here in my kinda broken chair with my TV paused on Real Housewives of Orange County, listening to my dogs snore, and watching Claire sleep on the ottoman. Oh, how I wish to be mingling with the smartypants at TED.
But even YOU can’t go to TED. It’s a select group o’folks who get to go and relish in the smarts. BY INVITATION ONLY or if you’re really smarty pants-ish and have a great idea or are at the top of your game. And really, if you’re at the “top of your game,” why are you reading this piddly blog?
Now, please excuse me as I start back up my paused idiot show while I Twitter and watch the Nannerpuss commercial 30 more times.
What gets your smarty brain cells dancing?
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Lets start our own NEDs conference.
Nerds
Enjoying
Dumb
Shit
We’ll share gems like the Nanerpuss and E-Trade baby commercials during the breaks from twitter parties and while eating Doritos.
TED is what I do when I can’t sleep at night.
I just realized when typing that sentence that it’s sounds way dirtier than it is.
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I got turned on to TED (gee, that one also sounds a little dirty)when I found out about Jill Bolte Taylor. She spoke about what was happening in her brain when she had a stroke.
My smarty brain cells dance when I finish a New York Times Sunday Crossword and when I watch episodes of Scientific American Frontiers hosted by Alan Alda.
I grew up in a time when being a smarty girl wasn’t very cool. I still try to keep it to myself.
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