Word: geeking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With words of praise for the geek...
...remember hearing stories told by fellow geeks about wonderful aphrodisiacs that you could give to women to put them into that perfect state of limp compliance that made geek love possible. A Coke with an aspirin slipped into it, or there was a tasteless, odorless, 180-proof liquor called Everclear that you could buy in North Dakota -- you slipped that into a girl's glass of punch, they said, and 10 minutes later her defenses were down. She stood there in her white taffeta prom gown and white corsage and said, "Why, thank you so much for the wonderful Pepsi...
...somewhat glum conclusion: "So wait till the Generation Y quant people hit Wall Street." When this occurs, at least one Generation X precept is unlikely to be disproved. As one quant said last week, "If you make money, ) nobody calls you a geek...
...carrying live TV pictures is the bandwidth (or carrying capacity) of the data lines. Some video clips -- and at least one full-length video movie -- are already available on the network. And last spring, writer Carl Malamud began using the Internet to distribute a weekly "radio" interview show called Geek of the Week. Malamud is undeterred by the fact that it takes a computer about an hour over a high- speed modem to capture the 30 minutes of sound that a $10 radio can pick up instantly for free. But bandwidth capacity has nowhere to go but up, says Malamud...
What he likes most about Harvard: The students. In high school, if you were different--if you took AP courses--you were immediately characterized as a geek. Here is a gathering of all the geeks in the world...