Here is even more concrete proof that I'm a total nerd.

On Tuesday after I got home from work I flipped on the TV and the movie "Volcano" was on. It's got Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche in it. It's about a volcano appearing in downtown LA and almost destroying the city.

Anyway, Jones plays the head of the Los Angeles Office of Emergency Management, and Heche plays a seismologist. Toward the beginning of the movie, Heche and Jones are at a park in LA and she's trying to explain to him why earthquakes keep affecting that particular park.

She says, "It's a geological event."
And Jones replies, "What's that?"

So then she does this basic elementary description of tectonic plates and earthquakes, etc...

But my nerd proof is this: Earlier in the movie, it was mentioned that Jones just started this LA OEM job after moving there from being in the same role in St. Louis. So when he goes, "What's that?" and Heche has to explain what an earthquake is, I thought, "That's so lame and untrue - if he was really the OEM head in St. Louis, he would've known a lot about earthquakes because of the nearby New Madrid Seismic Zone. This movie is fakey."

Yes, folks, Huge Giant Nerd.