Word: geeking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After three days, my computer sprang back to life, chipper, as if nothing had happened. I found myself wishing that a hard snow would fall on Seattle. Bill Gates and his geek brigades, I thought, need to sit in the dark for a while, or to light oil lamps and catch up on their reading...
...ready for the next Big Geek Thing? The star attraction of this week's Consumer Electronics Show, the annual Las Vegas-based Woodstock of high-tech hype, will surely be those long-promised, long-delayed digital video discs. The gleaming 5-in. CD look-alikes can carry up to 20 times more data than their cd-rom forebears and provide the most advanced audio and video experiences yet offered to humankind...
...will be National Geek...
Kids embrace their inner geek because of you, and you wear Gucci to the MTV Movie Awards? Explain. I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good...
...surprise that Erik Demaine counts juggling among his hobbies. The 24-year-old--a home-schooled child prodigy who became M.I.T.'s youngest professor ever at age 20--picks off one arcane math problem after another. "I work on anything I consider fun," he says. "I'm a geek." Demaine, who has already co-written more than 100 papers, specializes in the computational theory of folded structures, most notably the mathematics underlying origami...