Word: geeking
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...perfect, and yet ? "There's no red carpet," says a forlorn Viktor. "No red carpet," says Rolf. It is not at all obvious from meeting Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren that they would care about something like a red carpet. The skinny, bespectacled look-alike design team radiates more geek than glamour. They are darlings of fashion's intelligentsia (they had two openings in Paris last week: a show of their new spring/summer collection, and a Louvre exhibition devoted to their work that runs until Jan. 25, the first in nearly a decade to focus on fashion designers). But they...
Word processing, War Games, cubicle culture, geek chic, PowerPoint, Mine Sweeper, tech support...
...heartbreaking for parents to learn that other children don't like or won't play with their children. And being left out or labeled a geek can be even more devastating for those youngsters. The common wisdom used to be that such children were just shy and would grow out of it. Many did, some didn't, but nearly all suffered unnecessary loneliness and rejection. Spurred by a growing awareness of social-anxiety disorders in children and research that shows ways they can be helped, more and more parents, pediatricians and schoolteachers are turning to local programs like Peer Play...
Pharrell Williams the idiot, it turns out, is the ironic creation of Pharrell Williams the geek. "I'm no rapper," he says sheepishly. "I'm, like, a suburban kid." Ever since Williams, 30, and Hugo met in seventh grade at a school for gifted children in Virginia Beach, Va., they have been masking their insecurities beneath the brashness of hip-hop. The key to their success is that while fantasizing about being tougher than leather, they never forgot that they were softer than puppies. "A lot of people get caught up with making music into their identity," says Williams...
MANHATTAN—They came from far and wide—with rolling suitcases and portable e-mail terminals in tow—but they were drawn together by a common desire: to experience the ultimate techno-geek dream. As the hundreds of thousands of attendees of CeBit America 2003 entered the massive glass and steel lobby of the Jacob Javits Conference Center on Manhattan’s West Side, they were accosted by signs and logos of companies from Xerox to Siemens and prompted by convention staff to register at the appropriate bank of LCD panel kiosks...