Topics of conversation at geeks r us

In a long chat with my sister last night, we covered: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transylvania University, Presbyterian missionaries in Brazil, genteel poverty, Mitt Romney's father, patrons of the Baltimore Museum of Art, paintings by my grandfather, chicken stress, plantar keratosis, gait analysis, sciatica, pronation, the etymology of "hallux, upupa epops, Nigerian and Thai names, the mind-finger connection, the fact that porne is derived from a verb that means "to export for sale" (in Greek), sesamoid bones, Big Papi's wrist, horse legs, Tupac Shakur, the height of Rod Stewart.

Don't you wish you had been there?