Sometimes when I write it, I feel I’m leaving a positive review for a certain vampire book. And it scares me a bit.

 Yes, I knew the correction was funny, on some level. We even tried, a little bit, to maximize its entertainment value in the way we worded it. The editor who helped me did predict that it would earn a place in the correction hall of fame. But I have to say I’ve been surprised at the extent of the reaction, especially the comments – well-meaning as they are — that imply we went above and beyond in making it. “Perhaps the reporter has undiagnosed Asperger’s,’’ someone wrote in a Facebook comment forwarded to me by an amused friend.
The Times’ rule is, we correct anything that is wrong, no matter how small or seemingly silly. And I don’t know any of my colleagues who would want to do differently. 
(  — )Another part of the Times’ corrections policy, which arose after the awfulness of Jayson Blair, is that each correction is entered in a tracking system that includes who was responsible, and an explanation of how the error came to be. - Amy Harmon

“A Dec. 22 article about interfaith families incorrectly stated that Jacob and Eli Davis were circumcised when they converted to Judaism at ages 6 and 18 months. In fact, both boys were circumcised shortly after birth, but upon their conversion, a ritual ceremony was performed.”

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/corrections/article/1107337–life-correction-for-december-28

There’s a line between the mere nerd, and the arch nerd, and people have different names for them.  The mere nerd is really interested in things, and lets that interest become a part of their social life.  The arch nerd defines their life in terms of what they are interested in, which can be disastrous for their interactions with others.
This, and the realization that sports was nerdy, came to me when I was living with a martial arts nerd.  I used to do martial arts and I sometimes would geek out about it, but this guy cared about fighting prowess more than just about anything else.  You could tell that he saw the social order of the world as primarily determined by who could defeat who in one-on-one combat.  In little circles of other people who thought that way, he did well.  When he was teaching at a martial arts school, people respected him.  When he stopped teaching, he started interacting with a lot more people who thought he was a complete weirdo.  The thing is, he didn’t really notice or at least, he didn’t seem to care.  He could beat up most people and thus he thought of himself as somehow better than them, and anyone who didn’t respect that kind of power was an idiot.
The mere/arch nerdery distinction has been useful for me to take back to my understanding of conventional nerds.  Some people love computers, D&D, comic books, etc.  That’s fine, and often a love for this sort of thing is socially tolerated to a large degree.  The point at which nerds really start getting ostracized is when they stop being able to relate to other people in any terms other than through their interests.
I like to think of myself as a mere nerd, but I struggle against being an arch nerd a lot, because sometimes it’s just unfathomable to me how people even think about anything without certain crucial scientific and mathematical concepts that are endemic to my profession.

And Rainbow Dash has “awesome” shades.

Pinkie Pie sometimes wears goofy “joke” glasses.

I think the only ones that never have anything over their eyes at all are Applejack and Fluttershy…

…I mean, if thats alright with you.

Edit: Whoops. I just remembered Twilight wore glasses in one episode for a couple seconds when she was dressed as a psychiatrist.