First!

The Rising Ner- ... oh dear lord, I haven't even gotten through the title yet and I've already said something borderline raunchy.
so...
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Call me Ishmael Gibbslap.
I am a 24yo software dev currently living in Cancun with my two supermodel wives and my gorgeous pet alpaca.  When I'm not spending my time fighting crime in a cape and tights, or infiltrating the Illuminati, I enjoy racing my lime-green Audi TT in the local grand prix, or swimming in my own personal vault of money.  Also, approximately 5% of this paragraph is true.  (hint: it's not the part with the alpaca)
But who the frick cares?  Your not hear to here my life story any more then your hear for thees speling mistakes.  You're here because this is my first blog post, and because something in that title caught your interest (it was the "rising" part, wasn't it? Perv.)
I kinda hope that it's the nerd part, because that's really why I'm writing this.  Basically, I'm a nerd, or I want to be one.  I probably already am, but not enough of one, so I'm "rising" to it.  Like bread.  Bread rises when it's hot.  Usually after it's been kneaded.  It usually goes from being soft to being firm, and ... have I mentioned yet how extremely perfectly straight I am?  I have?  Good.
Anyways, thanks to the support from a few friends, I've decided to make a blog about my ... journey, if you will, into the deep nethers of nerddom.  There are long (*very* long) lists of games, movies, books, shows that I have always wanted to consume, and have yet to do so.  I was raised in a moderately sheltered household ... I wasn't allowed video games aside from some games for the computer, that my parents had chosen based on educational value.  We barely used the TV, we only had the basic three-networks-plus-PBS deal.  Most everything we watched as a family, and I was the one nerd of the group.  Only in the past year have I moved out of my parents' house and gotten a decent source of income, and now I'm going to start making up for lost time!
...phew, that paragraph was torture, needing to stay normal for so long ... ah well, exposition is almost over!
This blog is going to chronicle my journey.  I'll talk about what all I'm watching or playing or reading, occasionally talk about some of what I was allowed access to when I was younger.  Over the course of the next couple few several days weeks I'll work on making lists for you all, lists of what I've done and what I intend to do.  I'm leaving most of this wide-open, hoping that this will become a sort-of stream-of-thought thing ... I mean jeez, I produce enough thinking over the course of the day, perhaps some of it is of value to someone?
Anyways ... I'm starting here: http://www.backloggery.com/gibbslap  At the time of writing, I've only put three games up, of the ... I figure well over 500 that belong on that page.  Yes! I'm that CDO (you know, OCD, I alphabetized it for ya)  I also like to think I'm pretty knowledgeable about random stuff'n'things (I aced the TVTropes class at my school with flying colors ... what, you don't have one at your college?)  Didn't say it would be a difficult journey ... but it'll be fun either way!  Come join me, we'll have such an adventure together! :3
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Yup, still perfectly straight.
This is Gibbslap, and this was a triumph.