I fell in love with Vin when I saw him totally geeking out about the details of playing D&D on some late night talk show. Totally enthusiastic and unapologetic while the host was practically rolling his eyes.

This is why I will not hear a bad word about Vin Diesel. There is nothing I have ever seen or heard about him that contradicts that he is just a plain awesome person.

Vin has his D&D character’s name, “Melkor” tattooed on him. He is THE nerd of Hollywood.

This is the #1 item on both me and my husband’s bucket lists. If one of us is dying, the other one has to call Vin Diesel and arrange a game.

Teri Hatcher has a civil engineering degree. Nerd.

Vin Diesel is a real nerd. That is, he's such a nerd that he never felt like he needed to publicly identify as such to make himself seem more relatable.

More importantly, he got Dame Judy $1,000,000 for Riddick. He made her salary part of his demands when he found out what the producers were planning on offering her. He thought the amount was an insult to an actor of her caliber.

So I understand this is a post about celebrities “outing” themselves as nerds, but I still can’t believe you missed the most obvious one of all.

Calling yourself a nerd seems like a humblebrag way to claim brains and depth.

As a huge nerd, I’m never bothered by this. I’m with John Scalzi on deciding who gets to be a nerd: anyone who wants to be.

I think Natalie Portman has earned it.

She could have been RIDING those dragons.

Dany’s dragons are basically cats. Two of them had to get put in a room for bad behavior, and now they're pissed when she visits them. One disappeared for a few weeks only to show up on the porch and then leave again.

But Doran, though. Dr. Bashir, you are too fine.

The wife and I cheered out loud when Jaquen revealed himself. So glad he's back on the show.

that combined with the scruffy facial hair has like a magnetic power over me

Agree with Tom + Lorenzo but LOL at “costumers.” I had to fight with my phone to even get it to allow that spelling.

Well that was an interesting trip to an unexpected part of the Internet. I’m back now. My brain hurts... Uh, is she here yet?

Oh its BEYOND just Jez. She shows up here, but she is a pretty well known crazy:

I was raised in a Pentacostal church, washed in the blood of the lamb, raised within a spirit-filled congregation, speaking in tongues, praying in the spirit, being healed in God’s merciful light. When I was a struggling, almost-suicidal 21 year old who had never had a relationship, I went to the front during the…