Word: geeks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Coady, who lives in Edmonton, grew up in Cape Breton and writes with authority about life on the East Coast, as she did in her critically acclaimed novels Strange Heaven and Saints of Big Harbour. In Mean Boy, the geek hero's adventures with his mentor and experiments with alcohol, women and new forms of poetic expression (plus his unlikely friendship with a behemoth football player) all provide fodder for comedy. And somewhere in the haze of hangovers, the novel also manages to examine the nature of poetry, poets and the underappreciated fine art of growing...
...Google guys can be tough sells. Page, a computer geek from Michigan who as a boy idolized inventor Nikola Tesla (you know, the guy who developed AC power), has a Muppet's voice and a rocket scientist's brain. Brin, born in Russia and raised outside Washington, is no less clever but has a mischievous twinkle in his eye. When he drops little asides--"Let's make the little windows actually explode when you close them," he tells a group presenting new desktop software--no one seems certain whether to laugh or start writing the computer code. Both men often...
...attended a recent U2 concert in Oakland) but has mostly given up the saxophone he played as a kid. Compared with Brin, Page is probably a deeper thinker and bigger nerd. I saw him preparing his keynote speech for the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas--the geek-world equivalent of the Super Bowl--nearly a month before it took place. (He ended up bringing Robin Williams onstage with him; Williams called Page "Mensa boy" and mocked how he talks: "Larry, do you realize you sound just like Mister Rogers...
BEAUTY AND THE GEEK 2 THE WB, THURSDAYS...
...served as a staple diversionary device, a little bit of inter-group tension might have served to liven things up a bit. But Martinez may soon have other opportunities to duke it out on the small screen.Martinez has been contacted by “Beauty and the Geek,” a WB reality series in which “nerdy” guys are paired up with beautiful women. A self-proclaimed lover of the spotlight, Martinez says he is excited at the prospect of appearing on television again—in whatever form.“The funny...