Word: nerdly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...making fun of himself and talking smack about his competitors. True, his hair is weird, and his voice sounds as if still changing even though he's 49. But he seems different. Funkier. "I feel sort of unleashed," is how he puts it. Somehow humanity's most famous nerd has become kind of cool...
...makes some interesting choices as an actor too--from such indies as Monster's Ball and The Woodsman to big fat commercial films like The Italian Job. Hitchhiker's Guide is another cross-'em-up surprise: a nerd-friendly science-fiction comedy (based on the cult-classic novel and radio show by Douglas Adams) about a melancholy English bloke named Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) who roams the galaxy after Earth is demolished to build an interstellar bypass. Mos plays Arthur's winningly unflappable (and alien) best friend, and his laid-back vibe was in full effect...
DePodesta was largely portrayed as the stereotypical Ivy League nerd in the book—perpetually crouched behind the screen of his omnipresent laptop—but at the same time he was given tremendous credit for guiding the A’s through statistical analyses rather than relying solely on conventional scouting methods...
After Jedi, I was despondent that Star Wars had ended. But a few weeks later, I discovered Star Trek reruns. I watched every one of them, usually late on hot summer nights, the air conditioning dialed down to freezing, like space. I became, of course, a stupendous nerd. It had been sort of sweet when I merely yearned to be transported from a world I couldn't control. Now I was learning Klingon phrases...
...don’t know if my e-mail vanished into cyberspace, or if the real life Katie Holmes read it and found it creepy, or if some computer nerd who runs the website had a good laugh and forwarded it to his buddies. I guess I’ll never know...