Word: nerddom
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...perfect and tantalizingly saucy character Max Guevara on James Cameron's sci-fi dweeb spectacular Dark Angel--has danced a softshoe around rumors that she and co-star MICHAEL WEATHERLY were dating. She even resorted to the "just good friends" line. This week her publicist confirmed what those in nerddom feared all along: not only are the couple involved, they're engaged. Alba is 20. Weatherly is 32. It seems superfluous to mention that this is Alba's first marriage, but hey, it is. Weatherly, who plays wheelchair-bound cyberjournalist Logan Cale, was married once before, to actress Amelia Heinle...
...March 14--3/14 1:59--the world celebrated Pi Day. Yet the holiday, which remembers one of the oldest and most fundamental ratios in mathematics, was in fact celebrated only by a sad few. Across the city, lonely revelers--careful not to be seen together, lest their full nerddom be revealed--raised their tankards 3.14 times in silent commemoration. The Mathematics Department held a pie-eating contest, only perpetuating the trend that remembers our most famous ratio only through popular baked goods. I did not attend out of protest...
...posters of a man leaning over a woman in the Widener stacks, with the appellation: "Libraries--for those who love books." My question is, who buys these posters and what do they do with them? Do graduates hang in their apartments, a subtle in-joke that just demonstrates their nerddom? Do undergrads put them in Harvard common rooms, and if so, isn't it suggesting foreplay must be curtailed by library hours? The posters seem to send a confusing message. Hardly the sort of thing you would buy framed...
...like a sort of Beach Boys pastiche, is in fact a paean to homicidal teen angst that features this reflection on the mutability of contemporary existence: "Like takin' Carrie to the high school prom/ something's always goin' wrong." The Ramones are the philosopher kings of nerddom ("Every one's a secret nerd/ Every one's a closet lame"), the laureates of losers everywhere. They have no interest whatsoever in being cool, and for that alone may they always be blessed...
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