Comments on: Weird Niche: Funny Math Gifts

By: The Mom

The Mom — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:25:23 +0000

In reply to Nicole's Husband. My head hurts.

By: The Mom

The Mom — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:18:38 +0000

Little late to the game here, but just taking time to catch up on WNW.

Okay, the Math gene skipped me. As a result, when I see my Grandson walking around in one of his math geek shirts, my eyes just glaze over.

However, as a niche this is a doozie because my Grandson has LOTS and LOTS of math geek shirts. Funny, once he explains them to me. 😉

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:05:00 +0000

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Think Geek! I’m on their email and newsletter list and spend way too much time at work perusing their website, but you are right – its great for comic relief. I have also been trying to find a way to make that niche segue into my bookkeeping/accounting start-up. I considered the name AccountGeeks, but just cant figure out how to be both serious/professional and and ingeniously witty, like the think Geek writers, at the same time….oh and get clients.

By: Susie MIller

Susie MIller — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:09:18 +0000

This is terrific! i am going to book mark it as a favorite so i can get some great gifts for my math teaching daughter! sometimes when she talks, i have no idea what she is saying. she would have made the same ovservation as your hubbie 🙂
how fun!
thx.
Susie

By: Nicole's Husband

Nicole's Husband — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:39:09 +0000

In reply to Mark Mason.

Does it bother you that there are no absolute value bars around the radicals?

I mean really… When is + or – 2 o’clock? 😉

By: Mark Mason

Mark Mason — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:35:29 +0000

Sadly, I have that clock in my office.

By: Susanne Myers

Susanne Myers — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:21:02 +0000

Oh boy… this one looks really fun. Off to look for math geek domain names.

By: Becki Maxson

Becki Maxson — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:02:08 +0000

Sheesh Nicole, have you been living at our house. We HAVE that clock! It’s my middle son, what can I say. Where he gets those genes I don’t know.

Another tshirt he owns — Calculus – Yes, it is rocket science. Another t-shirt: Common problems in solving calculus (covered with equations, which he looked at and went, “Yeah, I see that a lot” cuz he tutors at the local college.) And ALL the Rubik’s cubes up to 7 sides, which he can solve.

This kid we’re dropping off at Caltech this weekend for his freshman year, cuz those geeks actually gather at places like that. The thing is, he’s a tall Caucasian kid among a sea of Asian and Indian students. What does that tell us about math/science education in this country?

Wasn’t it Bill Gates who said the geeks shall inherit the world? That’s another good gift — a book — The Geeks Guide to World Domination — also available at ThinkGeek or Amazon. It’s pretty darn funny.

Guess I should look into this niche, having lived with it personally – ha! Son #3 is just as geeked out on computer sci!

Becki

By: Lisa Marie Mary

Lisa Marie Mary — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:53:31 +0000

Actuarial science?? As if that Wikipedia link even helped me! LOL I do love, love, love geeky humor! I try to pretend to be in the geek crowd. I can spell nauseatingly well and I’m a grammar nut, but, the truth is – I aspire to hang with my brothers – who are both grotesquely smart! LOL Well, and now my sons. Darn brainiacs! I do love them so much, though! And with all my computer-wrangling the last few years, I believe I deserve an honorary membership, if nothing else! Ha!

By: Nicole Dean

Nicole Dean — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:03:49 +0000

In reply to Lain Ehmann.

lmao! Love your sense of humor, my friend!

Yes, Amish woodworkers and quilters would be difficult to reach through the web. 😀