A few dry thoughts as to why setting up a social networking site for nerds/scientists/geeks/ etc can be a tad more difficult than high school students. Borrowed and adapted from:

Nerds have different objectives when it comes to social interaction.

“Normal” people expect to accomplish several unrealistic things from social
interaction:

* Stimulating and thought provoking conversation;
* Important social contacts;
* A feeling of connectedness with other humans.

In contrast to “normal” people, nerds have rational objectives for
social interactions:

* Get it over with as soon as possible;
* Avoid getting invited to something unpleasant;
* Demonstrate mental superiority and mastery of all subjects.

London-based City AM asks city professionals for their views on housing price falls, and I guess not surprisingly all talk up the market from their own personal perspective. Though the thought did strike me that aren’t they the people least likely to have risky mortgages? And wasn’t the sub-prime market created by people rather insulated from reality like them loaning to risky low-income folk in the US? Hmm, I see the funny side of this, and that’s why I have categorised this under ‘comedy’.

“We know what we’re talking about!”