Word: geeks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Activities like Ewok landscaping, LEGO building and droid races filled out the geek slate. Tom Jozwiak, 46, an engineer from Chicago, brought the R2-D2 he has been building for three years to race. "It's a hobby, a very time-consuming one," Jozwiak admits, in what is a frequent refrain among a culture of diehards with day jobs. The crowd was about 70% male, even more so in the droid builders group. But Nikki Miyamoto, a costume designer from L.A., brought the R2 she's been working on for two years, with brushed copper plates...
Harvard men looking to become the next Alan D. “Scooter” Zackheim ’06, the winner of last season’s “Beauty and the Geek,” will have their chance when casting directors from the hit show hold a Boston casting call during reading period. Looking for “intellectually endowed but socially inept men who can turn a shopper into a scholar” and “beautiful, sexy, social-savvy women who can turn a geek into a stud,” the show...
...millions of filmgoers. And not just on casting decisions. "They're the new tastemakers," says Avi Arad, a producer behind this summer's Spider-Man 3 and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. "Hard-core fans represent a small piece of the viewing public, but they influence geek culture, journalists, Wall Street. You don't want them to trash your project." If these fans embrace a project, as they did 300 and Heroes, they can kick-start...
...really don't believe he's a killer. But that brings us to the movie's central problem: a lack of alternative suspects. Rowena's needy, nerdy computer geek assistant (Giovanni Ribisi) is weird enough, but too obvious. Hill's wife is a vague possibility, but doesn't get enough screen time to be taken seriously. How the screenwriter, Todd Komarnicki, and the director, James Foley, resolve this problem is a genre travesty and an affront to their star...
...academic fields. This growing intertwining is the crux of the HIMG’s initiative. “When interactive media first came out, people would go to arcades and it was a social experience,” says Decker. “Then it receded into a geek stereotype, and now it’s [about] meeting real life.”A USER’S MANUAL“We had humble beginnings,” says Li. “We were looking for more people to play ‘Civilization...