Word: geeking
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...typical answer from Hadfield, a self-confessed business geek who claims to care more about entrepreneurial process than profits. Nor is he a techie, despite his new media credentials: "The computer and the Internet are just tools that allowed me to take part in a world I wanted to be in." They were also his ticket to the 2001 World Economic Forum in Davos, where he was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow. Meeting people like billionaire George Soros and microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus "was inspirational," he says. "I was hanging on every word...
...aristocratic female archaeologist with an eye-popping physique and an Indiana Jones-size taste for travel and adventure. Croft aficionados, though, have never known the place to look this high-tech, or this highly detailed. They have also never met its other inhabitants: the butler, the sardonic tech geek who lives in a trailer out back, or Lara's late father, Lord Croft, who will appear in his manor's observatory packed in the dry ice of a dream sequence...
...aristocratic female archaeologist with an eye-popping physique and an Indiana Jones-size taste for travel and adventure. Croft aficionados, though, have never known the place to look this high-tech, or this highly detailed. They have also never met its other inhabitants: the butler, the sardonic tech geek who lives in a trailer out back, or Lara's late father, Lord Croft, who will appear in his manor's observatory packed in the dry ice of a dream sequence...
Nothing is more adored by cubicle-dwelling Gen-Xers than geek kitsch. And nothing is geekier or kitschier than Japanese video games of the 1980s, back when efficient translation was not considered essential. The dialogue of Zero Wing contains such gems as "Somebody set us up the bomb," "Take off every Zig for great justice" and a chilling warning from a villain known only as Cats: "All your base are belong to us." Late last year, fans with too much time on their hands started doctoring photos to show this last phrase cropping up everywhere from George W. Bush billboards...
...combat. So if yesterday's Army grunts had G.I. Joe, what better model for tomorrow's push-button conquistadors than these butt-whuppin' machine masters? The lesson, at least, is apparently not lost on the U.S. Army, which is sponsoring the current season of BattleBots. All hail the Warrior Geek...