Word: geeks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...love the song. Whenever I hear the lurching guitar progression and the aw-shucks lyrics (“Preppy girls never looked at me / Why should they? / I ain’t nobody, got nothing in my pocket,” etc.), I beam with old-school geek pride and want to get drunk off one beer and run across the Yard...
It’s totally, totally like The Cutting Edge meets A Beautiful Mind with more than a hint of Bring It On. There is mother-daughter drama, popular girl-science geek drama, cute boy-dorky girl drama, and of course a “raging” (quotes intended) Can’t Hardly Wait-style house party which was as out-of-place in the film as the lead character was at the bash...
...Geek Squad is one part of that effort. Best Buy bought the business--an independent computer-support firm based in Minneapolis, Minn.--from its founder, Robert Stephens, in 2002, after working with Geek behind the scenes for two years. Today there are 7,500 agents spread across all 668 of Best Buy's U.S. stores, led by "chief inspector" Stephens. So-called counterintelligence agents work inside the stores to help befuddled shoppers select their wares, while badge-toting double agents like Tavadia make house calls in branded, black-and-white Volkswagen Beetles. "I'm trying to build an army," Stephens...
...everybody has the peculiar neurons needed to link a laptop to a wireless modem with ease, least of all Charlene Monzo. "I haven't made much progress with computers," she admits. "I'm paper generation." That's why Geek Squad double agent Cyrus Tavadia, decked out in his black-and-white uniform, with white socks and clip-on black tie, has dropped by her 35th-floor Manhattan apartment--to connect the technophobe wirelessly to the hyperlinked labyrinth of the World Wide Web. Under his polite tutelage, Monzo, 55, learns in a couple of hours how to use the computer mouse...
...It’s not necessarily cool to be a geek about something [anywhere]—to be very very into something that’s not productive,” von Korff said, adding, “Unless its something like baseball or football...