Geek Week Day 3 - Happy Mole Day!!

Today is a holiday in the geek world! Did you know that? It's actually the entire reason why I picked this particular week of all weeks to dedicate my blog to Geek Week! Today is Mole Day!! Mole Day is celebrated each year from 6:02am until 6:02pm on 10/23. If I were an on-the-ball blogger, I would have had this post live at 6:02am. Sadly I haven't been an on the ball blogger in years. But I do love Mole Day! I'll tell you a little more about it below, but first today's card:

This is me in high school chemistry class! Except I never had a lab coat. And I'm not blond. And I'm not cute. But WHATEVER, it's totally me. ;-) Seriously, isn't she the cutest? Most of all I love that she's a she! She is from TSG's Cutie Pi set. The awesome sentiment is TSG's Chem 101. And that fab periodic table-inspired background is Sweet Stamp Shop's Chemistry. Since one of the elements included is silver, I thought it appropriate to use silver ink. The girl is colored with Copics and popped up. OH! And see that cute little oval shadow below her? That's from Paper Smooches' Shadows set - such an awesomely useful set!! (I bought it at i {heart} papers - and it's currently 25% off!)

So, more about Mole Day!! It's a "holiday" invented in the 80's by a high school science teacher, as a way to get the kids to have fun with science. My awesome high school chemistry teacher, Mr. Logan or "Sir" as we called him, always celebrated in class! And that's why I know what Mole Day is!

It's celebrated at 6:02 on 10/23. The time & date look like Avogadro's number, which is ~6.02×10²³ - defining the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in one mole of substance. We deal with moles A LOT in chem class. ;-)

So there you have it. More than you wanted to know about chemistry! ;-)

Are there any other geeky stampers out there? If so I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE for you to make a geeky creation, and link it back here!! I wanted to do a linky thingy but I can't get it to work at the moment, so if you make something just link it up in the comments, the old-fashioned way! Remember, there are lots of geeky topics - science, math, technology, pop culture (superheroes, Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings...) - but geek can also refer to anything you really love & get excited about! For example, most of you know I'm a total bike geek!! Something like that counts too. Check out my friend Leslie's awesome geeky creation!! She used chemistry. You know I love that! And sweet Glenda posted this one last summer with an adorable little teacher doing his thing. :-)

Thanks for stopping by!

Geek Week Day 2 - DFTBA!

DFTBA. I mentioned it as I signed off yesterday. What does it mean? It's a good thing to say to yourself every single day. Don't forget to be awesome! Although it may not necessarily seem like it, this is a phrase in the nerd world, and I'll tell you how in a minute. But first, my card. I decided to make a card highlighting all kinds of stuff I happen to find AWESOME!

First of all, my favorite colors - purple and green. Awesome! Then I added glitter and sequins, way high up on the awesome scale for me. Can you read what it says in the background?? It says certified science geek! Yup, awesome. And true! That's from the Chem 101 stamp set from TSG. They have a few different geekalicious stamp sets (here & here) - LOVE IT. And the blobby thing - perhaps an amoeba? I'm not sure. But it's from a fun geeky set from Sweet Stamp Shop called Chemistry. You know I can't resist a stamp set called chemistry!

Not sure who else this particular card would appeal to, so I think I'm going to mail this card to myself. I will open it, look at it and think "wow this card has everything I love on it!!" and it will remind me daily to be awesome. ;-)

So how does this DFTBA stuff relate to Geek Week? Well, let me tell you! I recently became acquainted with the VlogBrothers and the Nerdfighters! By "acquainted" of course I mean I googled them, watched their videos on YouTube and followed them on Twitter (here too). No, I don't actually KNOW them, silly.

Anyway - these VlogBrothers, Hank & John, have a YouTube channel where they've been sharing videos for years about all sorts of topics - some geeky, some not necessarily. Their followers are called Nerdfighters. Instead of being made up of cells and organs and stuff, they are made out of awesome. Here's a little introduction into their world...

(Click here if you cannot see the video.)

I also found they have a newer YouTube channel called Crash Course, where they teach us all kinds of interesting things. US History, World History, Literature, Biology, and best of all, Chemistry! So you can learn everything you've wanted to know about things like... for instance... Unit Conversion & Significant Figures!!

(Click here if you cannot see the video.)

Oh how I love sig figs! Am I the only one who yelled "HELL YES!" when he said "being able to chastise people for using the wrong number of significant figures is basically the math world's equivalent of being a grammar nazi"...? Have your stampy eyeballs glazed over now...?? Oops, sorry. I'm letting my geek show. ;-)

But here's the best thing about the VlogBrothers. Besides trying to make the world a little smarter, they also raise all kinds of money for charity. As they say, they decrease the amount of world suck. And I have officially become a Nerdfighter.

DFTBA,