Wikipedia Nerd

Wikipedia is the best thing since chopsticks. I am a wikipedia nerd - are you?? I find myself searching and reading articles on wikipedia all the time. I’m addicted I think.

Over the weekend, I read up on penicillin just because I wondered whether my suspected allergic reaction to mold in beer lines was related to my allergic reaction to penicillin. Shazam! I’m pretty confident it’s related. The symptoms that I encountered Friday night seem to match quite closely to some of the adverse reactions, both common and infrequent.

Admittingly, I have also read the articles on flatulence because a guest doctor on Ophrah said farting was healthy for you. It’s a very informative article, by the way (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulation). Read it! Then you’ll understand the saying ‘beans beans are good for your heart! the more you eat, the more you fart!’. Oh, and my research presented no facts to support this doctor’s claim to healthy farting. ;-)

When I was a kid, we didn’t have enough money to buy the whole collection of encyclopedia brittanica, but I recall always liking to read stuff from it in the volumes we did have, and then read others at the library… in between Archie, Garfield, Marmaduke, and Family Circus comics, of course. I never quite made it through the collection end to end and if I did, I’d probably be a little more crazier than I am today. However, this wikipedia gig is pretty sweet.

If anyone can get me an ‘I Love Wikipedia’ t-shirt, I’d totally wear it!