Comments on: Are You Expert-ienced?

By: kaptin scuzgob

kaptin scuzgob — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:05:38 +0000

Warhammer :3

By: Michael G

Michael G — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:52:40 +0000

The Legion of Super-Heroes (not that you’d need my expertise on that), The Eagles (the rock group), Bruce Springsteen, and the manned space program (in particular, the space shuttle and astronaut training).

Yes, I’m late to this thread.

By: dom

dom — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:27:18 +0000

Peeling out SIDEWAYS. Yep, it takes practice. Also Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4.

By: plok

plok — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:23:56 +0000

“MIND”, damnit!

All that effort trying to be clever…

By: plok

plok — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:22:53 +0000

“Well, I was going to say a ducky and a horsey, but I changed my mine.”

By: C. Carter

C. Carter — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:36:39 +0000

This is a long effing post. I assume you’re just going to use “Find in this page,” so I’ll toss in the things of which I have a solid grasp.

Latin, Logic (not just the usage, but the terminology and history, etc.), The Question, DC Comics in general, ancient history (in general, from the Fertile Crescent to Rome, though check back in a year or so for Eastern history), anarchism (both the kind on the streets and armchair anarchism), Christian history, Christian theology, Islamic theology, neo-paganism, atheism (once again, terminology and history), magic both with and without the k, modern poetry, H.P. Lovecraft, Alan Moore, Henry Rollins, ska music, punk rock music, Archie Comics, the Mario Bros. universe pre-64, Virgil’s Aeneid, African mythology, vampires (both the folklore and the modern subculture of people who actually claim to be), MST3k, fine cheeses, gin, Nabokov.

By: lisechen

lisechen — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:09:40 +0000

White Wolf’s Old World of Darkness, and fancy coffee drinks.

By: plok

plok — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:30:13 +0000

I totally think that was John Hodgman.

I can make overcooked spaghetti, and put my foot in my mouth.

By: ladypeyton

ladypeyton — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:36:22 +0000

Medieval wine making techniques

By: Sensorium

Sensorium — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:55:05 +0000

No, do not think that was the real John Hodgeman. I would just get a little bit of glee out of know that we read the same blogs because I think he’s an interesting person.

By: Youngblood

Youngblood — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:31:48 +0000

Since I’ve been around the internet long enough to know that most people who claim expertise don’t actually have at, a lot of these responses are actually kind of depressing.

Then again, maybe I’m just a hopeless cynic.

By: SmR

SmR — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:28:25 +0000

“Expert”? Well, I can answer questions about:
Judaism (texts, philosophy, practice, different streams – again, “expert” wouldn’t be the word I’d use, but anyway)
Bus lines in Jerusalem
Hebrew (amateur translator)
Israel’s immigration process (notice a pattern here?)
Jewish anti-Zionism across the religious-political spectrum (wrote a paper on it in 12th grade)
Those are the things I’d probably know most about out of the people commenting here. But I also love Simpsons trivia and other stuff.

By: goblin

goblin — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:15:06 +0000

you think that post is really from John Hodgman?

By: Supergp

Supergp — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:09:54 +0000

60′s and 70′s science fiction, TCP/IP, 3rd Ed. D&D (3.5 = phayl!), West Wing, and the Ultimate Marvel continuity.

By: John Seavey

John Seavey — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:52:26 +0000

Nothing, really. I’ve always been one of those people who knows something about everything, but everything about nothing. ‘Feng Shui’, I suppose, since I did write or co-write four books for the game line, but beyond that, I’m really just the guy who can give you a layman’s understanding of whatever you’re interested in.

Which isn’t a bad thing to be.