Calling All Nerds

I was the guy in grade-8,with;
the briefcase the slide-rule,the pocket protector, the 4-color pen, the mechanical pencil,and the fold-up mini chess board that you almost needed a tweezers to move your men with. Some of that started in 1967. Chess not until 1969ish. By 1970 I had a 70 Swinger 340 4-speed, so I sorta dropped out of school; I mostly just showed up to write the tests, and the show-cause meetings; the meetings where they ask you to show them a reason not to throw you out of school, 'cause they really wanted to. But yeah, I got a lot of flack for carrying that briefcase, and it never lasted into a second year. But hey, the sliderule didn't fit into any pocket I had.....
Now I'm the guy with;
the calculator, the mechanical pencil,the stick-eraser, the 6" rule, and the bulk-paper on a wagon that follows me everywhere I go.