A wonderful post - "The Nerd Handbook" - it's both funny and so terribly true. Finally I can point non-nerd friends and loved ones to an astute explanation of the benefits of monospaced text.
Map the things he's bad at to the things he loves. You love to travel, but your nerd would prefer to hide in his cave for hours on end chasing The High. You need to convince him of two things. First, you need to convince him that you're going to do your best to recreate his cave in his new surrounding. You're going to create a quiet, dark place here he can orient himself and figure out which way the water flushes down the toilet. Traveling internationally? Carve out three days somewhere quiet at the beginning of the trip. Traveling across the US? How about letting him chill on the bed for a half-day before you drag him out to see the Golden Gate Bridge?
[via Rands In Repose].
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