Word: geek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this was just the beginning. It turns out that most of my acquaintances--from hallmates to housemates--have encountered these miscreants. It becomes something of a game: spot the section geek. Each is a unique case of pretension, but here are a few of the common models you can watch...
Teen movies through the decades have alternately embraced, lamented and spoofed this version of social hierarchical hell. The evil jocks and catty girls of Carrie got theirs in the end when good old outcast Carrie set them aflame at the Prom. The "diverse" group of a prom queen, geek, jock, basket case and criminal in The Breakfast Club learned the warm, fuzzy lesson that they can all be friends despite their social differences. And of course there is the ultimate in teen popularity movies, the brilliant Clueless, which mercilessly satirized ultra-rich Valley Girls and the high school scene...
...find the best machine? Easy: I ask my geek friends. For the past few years, they've all said the same thing: the Millennia, from Micron Electronics. And they're right. I bought my first Millennia two years ago and a second this year, ordering through the micronpc.com website. It's the king of PCs. The machine is solid--no tinny clicks and clatters when it does its microprocessing--and it never fails, no matter how much junk...
Instead, some pencil-pushing, pencil-necked geek locked in a basement room at The Seattle Times is helping to determine who plays for the national championship by his computer program. And in a sick way, it's probably fairer. Florida State lost to North Carolina State 24-7 in Week Two and the voters forgave and forgot. Kansas State lost 36-33 Dec. 5 and it was screwed...
...technology, allowing the secure transmission of any information that is meant to be safe from prying Internet eyes. It is SSL, for example, that secures the transmission of the course grades you can retrieve from the Harvard Registrar's on-line site, thus making sure that your nosy computer-geek roommate has no way of knowing how you did in Expos...