About Me

What can I say that hasn’t been said? My name is Tony Mercer-Bey, I was born on September 19th 1980 at the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Yadda yadda yadda, after high school graduation I moved to the Chicago metro area where I’m currently going to school and working a nice job in the IT industry.

I’m quiet, laid-back and pretty much a home body. I’m a self-confessed geek with various nerd-like tendencies and severely irrelevant and proud. I try to stay up on popular culture, music and the inane. I’m a proud memeber of Kappa psi Kappa Fraternity Incorporated. I read a lot of comics books, mostly Marvel’s X-Men. I watch a lot action movies, kung fu movies, Japanese Animation, cartoons and pornography. Not too much pornography but enough to be labeled a pervert. When I’m not doing all of that, or working I’m usually playing video games on my Xbox 360 or chatting on iPhone. And if you happen to come across me in the streets, and wasn’t if it was me, I’m usually wearing a Philadelphia Phillies cap.

Why Negro Verus Nerd?

I’ve always had difficult explaining the kind of person I am. I’ve always felt drawn or better yet conflicted between two sides; the nerdy intellectual, the one that likes sci-fi movies and reading and the nigga, the one that like wear fitted baseball hats, baggy jeans and lives in the hood. Ultimately I found this video that sums my duality.

About NegroVsNerd.com

Essentially designed on a Etch a Sketch monitor connected to a EasyBake Oven pc tower with a 28.8k Talk With Me Sesame Street Phone modem. Really. Honest to God it was. This site came about because I wanted to establish a presence on the web where I could showcase my ideas and discombobulated ramblings that bounce around in my head.

Initially I started out with a simple green page on Geocities relying on the guestbook to share information and thoughts, from there I hardcoded HTML pages with the my own domain name AFMBey[dot]com, Mercer-Bey[dot]com and NorthFarson[dot]com. For awhile after that I had stopped writing online because I lack the time to devote to a website. But around mid 2000, during the boom of blogs, a lot of friends and co-workers kept asking why I didn’t have a webpage, since I was so into technology. So I decided to do another site, simply to see if I could again and to shut up everybody from asking me.

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This site is hosted by (mt) and powered by WordPress. The template Wicket Pixie was created by Chris Pirillo and tweaked using Adobe Dreamweaver and Photoshop. All vidcasts/podcasts are made using Apple Quicktime 7 Pro, GarageBand and iMovie.