White and Nerdy

White & Nerdy (2006), is a fantastically funny rap song, sung by “Weird Al” Yankovic↗.

Here's the lyrics:

They see me mowin'
My front lawn
I know they're all thinking
I'm so White n nerdy

 Think I'm just too white n nerdy
 Think I'm just too white n nerdy
 Can't you see I'm white n nerdy
 Look at me I'm white n nerdy!

I wanna roll with
The gangsters
But so far they all think
I'm too white n nerdy

 Think I'm just too white n nerdy
 Think I'm just too white n nerdy
 I'm just too white n nerdy
 Really, really white n nerdy

「• Earl Grey tea = My favorite drink is milk, pure fruit juices, then green tea. I don't like beer, perhaps drinking it once a year.」

「• MC Escher = Also my fav. See my articles, essays, blogs related to Escher at Projective Illusion, Algorithmic Mathematical Art (p3), Art of M C Escher. 」

First in my class here at M.I.T.
Got skills, I'm a Champion of DND
MC Escher that's my favorite MC
Keep your 40
I'll just have an Earl Grey tea

「• Steven Hawkings = Stephen Hawking↗'s most popular book is A Brief History of Time↗. I don't have that book on my shelf, but in a similar vein, i have Godel, Escher, Bach↗ by Douglas Hofstadter and The Emperor's New Mind↗ by Roger Penrose.」

My rims never spin to the contrary
You'll find they're quite stationary
All of my action figures are cherry
Steven Hawkings in my library

「• MySpace = I also have a MySpace account, but don't use it much. I'm also on Orkut, LiveJournal, Blogger, and about 10 more blog sites or social network sites. But mostly, i have my own domain name XahLee.org, with over 11.5 thousand unique visitor per day. 」

My MySpace page is all totally pimped out
I got people begging for my top 8 spaces
Yo I know Pi to a thousand places
Ain't got no grills but I still wear braces

「• minesweeper = i don't play mine-sweeper, but plays a host of other math puzzles and games. See Great Math Programs on Puzzles. 」

I order all of my sandwiches with mayonnaise
I'm a whiz at minesweeper I can play for days
Once you see my sweet moves you're gonna stay amazed
my fingers movin' so fast I'll set the place ablaze

「• killer app = My fav killer apps are: Mathematica↗, emacs↗, Google Earth↗, and web browser↗. See my Mathematica packages i've written: Mathematica packages, my emacs and elisp tutorial Xah's Emacs Tutorial, my notes on Google earth Google Earth Geography 101, some notes on web browser Web-browsers 2003 Pro and Con. 」

There's no killer app I haven't run
At Pascal, well, I'm number 1
Do vector calculus just for fun
I ain't got a gat but I gotta soldering gun (what?)

「• JavaScript = I have a JavaScript tutorial.」

「• Klingon = I don't speak Klingon, in fact consider it childish. I speak lojban↗. See my lojban tutorial: Xah's lojban page. 」

Happy days is my favourite theme song
I can sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong
I'll ace any trivia quiz you bring on
I'm fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon
or I sing on

They see me roll on, my Segway!
I know in my heart they think I'm
white n nerdy!

 Think I'm just too white n nerdy
 Think I'm just too white n nerdy
 Can't you see I'm white n nerdy
 Look at me I'm white n nerdy

I'd like to roll with-
The gangsters
Although it's apparent I'm too
White n nerdy
Think I'm just too white n nerdy
I'm just too white n nerdy
How'd I get so white n nerdy?

「• X-men = I had some interest in these type of comics. See my essay on American Superheros.」

「• ergonomic keyboard = I LOVE keyboards, and i LOVE ergonomic keyboards. See: Computer Keyboards Gallery, A Review of Microsoft Natural Keyboards.」

I've been browsing, inspectin'
X-men comics you know I collect 'em
The pens in my pocket
I must protect 'em
my ergonomic keyboard never leaves me bored

「• Wikipedia = I LOVE Wikipedia. I've been using and editing it since 2004. My website has near 4 thousand links to it, collected here: Links To Wikipedia from XahLee.org. Wikipedia itself has about 50 links to my website.」

Shopping online for deals on some writable media
I edit Wikipedia
I memorized Holy Grail really well
I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL

「• HTML = My website xahlee.org has 3500 HTML pages, all hand coded with Emacs. 」

I got a business doing websites
When my friends need some code who do they call?
I do HTML for them all
Even made a homepage for my dog!

Yo! Got myself a fanny pack
they were having a sale down at the GAP
Spend my nights with a roll of bubble wrap
POP POP! Hope no one sees me gettin' freaky!

「• chess = I played chess for few years in the early 1990s. But mostly, am more interested in the theoretical aspects of these types of games. See Go Variations on Tilings, Go as Cellular Automata.」

I'm nerdy in the extreme and whiter than sour creme
I was in AV club and Glee club and even the chess team!
Only question I ever thought was hard
Was do I like Kirk or do I like Picard?
I spend every weekend
at the renaissance fair
I got my name on my under wear!

They see me strollin'
They laughin'
And rollin' their eyes 'cause
I'm so white n nerdy

 Just because I'm white n nerdy
 Just because I'm white n nerdy
 All because I'm white n nerdy
 Holy cow I'm white n nerdy

I wanna bowl with
the gangsters
but oh well it's obvious I'm
white n nerdy

 Think I'm just too white n nerdy
 Think I'm just too white n nerdy
 I'm just too white n nerdy
 Look at me I'm white n nerdy!

above: White & Nerdy.

YouTube search: white and nerdy↗.

For some detailed explanation of the lyric's allusions, see Wikipedia: White & Nerdy↗.

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