Profiles in Nerdery: Jansen Price, maker of computer programs and snack expert

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  1. Astrological Sign: Astrology is garbage. But if you want to know my birthday, it’s February 28th.
  2. Time at the Nerdery: 33,399,512 seconds. (At the time of this writing).
  3. Area of expertise: PHP, XHTML, Javascript, Production Design, Snacks.
  4. When people ask you what you do, how do you respond: I get to make computer programs for a company that makes awesome web sites and applications.
  5. Favorite kinds of projects to work on: Projects with clearly defined requirements, custom interfaces, or plenty of time for testing/bug-fixing.
  6. What one thing about The Nerdery surprises people the most when you tell them about it: Nothing. I don’t tell anyone anything about the Nerdery. It’s a secret! Shhhhhh.
  7. Seven dream Jeopardy Categories: 1. Vim keyboard shortcuts; 2. Capitals of the world; 3. Star Trek: TNG Episodes; 4. The Metric System; 5. Songs by the band Nirvana; 6. Things I like to do; and 7. Things to do when you’re bored. Honestly, I am not very good at Jeopardy… it seems so backwards to me.
  8. Favorite Fictional Nerd: George McFly. He just seems like a guy I could be friends with.
  9. According to the Wikipedia entry on Nerd, some nerds show a pronounced interest in subjects which others tend to find dull or complex and difficult to comprehend, or overly mature for their age, especially topics related to science, disambiguation, mathematics and technology. Do you know what disambiguation is: Yes, I do.