(1) Freaks And Geeks was my thing, based on my experiences.
(2) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
(3) Google has tried hardware – even home hardware – before with a smart power meter (shut down in September 2011), the Nexus Q set-top box (never went on sale), and is currently trying to persuade people beyond geek boundaries to try its Google Glass headset.
(4) There have always been geeks and fans here, it’s just now they call it Comic-Con.
(5) Shadowtroopers and AT-AT walkers should keep the geeks happy At-AT walkers Photograph: YouTube Black-armoured stormtroopers have featured in numerous (largely non-canonical) Star Wars novels, games and comic books over the years, but never in the movies themselves.
(6) At the same time, however, I also know to expect a series of variations on two classic negative comments: "You geeks need to get out more" and "Do adults really play these things?"
(7) In the spirit of the page, this is a reception where 900 science enthusiasts can chat, meet pop-science experts and geek out.
(8) Geek Girl Meetup Geek Girl Meetup is targeted at females with an interest in tech, design and startups.
(9) Jeff Jarvis , professor, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jeff, author of Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News; What Would Google Do?
(10) He inhabits a variety of modes: the lecturer, the thinker, the math geek in a hoodie in front of a chalkboard of formulas, the leader with a lightly clenched fist to show decisiveness and determination.
(11) • Week in Geek sees Ben Child hoping James Mangold will get it right for The Wolverine , a second attempt to spin off Hugh Jackman's X-Men character.
(12) Comic-book epics Finally, no Week in Geek preview would be complete without a rundown of the coming year’s superhero stylings.
(13) Silberman’s story on the topic, The Geek Syndrome , was published by Wired in 2001.
(14) Tobey Maguire fans – and there are many vocal and vehement ones – will insist that no one can replace the king of geek chic in the Spider suit, but they may come to accept that if anyone can, it's Garfield.
(15) All your baby has actually done – in geek terms – is receive the latest OS update, which fixes a few bugs (it goes cross-eyed less often), clears up some performance issues (it feeds more efficiently), and enables new features (object-batting now included).
(16) They tried to make the geek the hero, and audiences don't get the excitement of projecting on to that, because that's who they are already.
(17) Geek culture is made up of, and enjoyed by, all kinds of people and our norms should reflect that.
(18) The others were fiddly, trivial-looking plastic things cluttered with buttons and dials, appealing mainly to gadget-obsessed geeks with the time to figure out how to work them.
(19) Hamilton can be enjoyed by both the musical theater geek and the rap aficionado, but it ultimately has more to offer the former.
(20) Simon Brew of Den of Geek wrote : "He might not be Ryan Gosling, but Affleck has quietly been impressing as an actor, and maturing as one too.
Nerd
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(1) The nerd may have been more in evidence early on - not least when he was doing his doctorate and ignored the advice of his Nobel prize-winning supervisor, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and opted for a stats fest, "a classic piece of Popperian science", instead of a fluffier study of animal behaviour - but it's still around.
(2) Last, and this is just a hunch as a career-long only-digital nerd: perhaps after more than a decade of digital influx, people are yearning a bit more for the physical, the tangible object, the easy-to-understand.
(3) On 5th Gear, from 2007, he talked about internet nerds reinventing themselves through social media, and offered an intentionally redneck perspective on the battle of the sexes in the deliberately gauche I'm Still a Guy.
(4) But isn't there a bit of him that wants to gloat; to tell all the kids who thought he was a nerd that he's now this babe magnet, this sex god, this… And now he really is flushed and flustered.
(5) This target audience includes not just those young people taking part in state-sponsored sports and defence training or patriotic youth groups, but also nerds who love western videogames and superheroes.
(6) "I'm a nerd who likes to keep his private life private," he said.
(7) Whereas Crow tended to rely on his rhetoric and his street-fighter smarts, Whelan is more of a data nerd – part barrow boy, part actuary.
(8) By the time kids are filling out Ucas forms or heading off to find a living, "computer stuff" has usually been relegated to the otherworldly realm of nerds.
(9) There was already a perception that Ed Miliband was too geeky, too much of an unworldly politics nerd, to have a realistic chance of power.
(10) Worldly-wise but digi-ignorant, the Vaughn-Wilson jock explosion throw in their lot with the socially maladjusted nerdly-wise virgins and soon enough, with the help of code-writing lessons for the oldies and lap dances for the virgin-geeks, they all learn to get along.
(11) And it would be nothing short of condescending for screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher to have concocted some fictional spunky-girl nerd character or a wise female comp sci professor in an attempt to make their film more female-friendly.
(12) "Adam had this typical nerd look: belts, tucked-in shirt.
(13) There are duelling nerds in sports jackets and a panicky associate producer (inevitably and infuriatingly female) who is smarter than her ditzy persona would have you believe.
(14) 2.16pm BST Moyes music I'm something of a music nerd, so do keep the suggestions for Dave's iPod coming.
(15) "Really in those early days the web was just for nerds like me, if you wanted some tech advice or needed to find out how to do something.
(16) And for those who think interplanetary exploration is just nonsense for space nerds, the same lessons could surely be applied closer to home.
(17) So then I grew up and I stopped taking nerd-drugs, and about the same time, Starbucks opened in the UK, whereupon I took to getting double espressos, except they were never big enough.
(18) The open source community are geeks and nerds and they created the current inequality in technology.'
(19) June 18, 2014 2.13pm BST Paul Doyle has spent the last few hours in a dark corner of the office, nerding it up on Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa.
(20) His conclusion is a call to arms: "We need some angry nerds" – people capable of breaking out of the walled gardens.