Nerdsniping reminds me of the Walt Whitman poem: There was a child went forth every day; And the first object he look’d upon, that object he became; A

Nerdsniping reminds me of the Walt Whitman poem: There was a child went forth every day; And the first object he look’d upon, that object he became; And that object became part of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of years. It's especially bad if you'd really rather be doing something other than what you're currently doing.