Word: geekdom
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...center for the Lakers, to Teresa, this totally hot girl in Algebra I. A few of the guys evolve flawlessly. One week they're collecting baseball cards, and the next they're driving Mustangs and dating Teresas. The rest of us retreat into a sort of refined hyper-geekdom. As kids we may have played with toy soldiers or plastic tanks or HO railways. Now slightly more mature, we get deeply, almost disturbingly (to our parents) into very specific aspects of military modeling. It is at this stage that many of us discover Japan, or at least its sophisticated plastic...
...your fatigues and boots is to pass from geekdom to old-timer status, blending in with all the other purgatory cats, the ones stuck in this halfway house here, waiting to "ship out" to Basic Training, reportedly about a mile down the road.? It is a place we only imagine, wistfully...
Thanks in part to the recent success of the Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks sappy tale of virtual love "You've Got Mail," Internet love is transitioning from geekdom to chicdom. On Harvard's campus, students pass up real-life amusements and hold tight to their ethernet lifelines, logging on for love. Here are the true stories of undergraduate virtual romance...
...world-wise best friend, Jane Singh, fills her dreams with images of willowy, "dusky maidens" welcoming Saskia the Wanderer into distant ports. Carefully balanced between worlds, with the imaginative richness of her inner ocean just managing to stave off the outside world of adolescent rebellion and incipient high-school geekdom, Saskia's mental dialogue with the reader will remind many of us of ourselves at that paradoxically selfabsorbed, doubting and arrogant, callous and tender...