I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.

I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.

As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.

I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, "I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario."

I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.