Like much of the pair's work, the vessels marry artisanship and geekiness.
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Seth Cohen helped create a world in which geekiness is respectable, admirable, marketable, desirable.
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Girls, however, did not score high enough on the "geekiness" factor for any significant findings.
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She fondly recalls a similar "geekiness" and love of fantasy novels quickly bonded the two.
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Below, you'll find five that stood out for their sensitivity, depth of insight and sheer geekiness.
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How strong is the correlation between your geekiness and the amount of time you spend playing it?
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It also plays the classic Star Wars theme and the Imperial March theme for a little added geekiness.
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There, at the nexus of arcade games and typography, my own geekiness battled with my nerdiness for pole position.
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Manning told me she fit in well with the intelligence types at Fort Huachuca, who shared her intrinsic geekiness.
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Researchers evaluated 7,781 twins when they were 12-years-old, and found that geekiness was 57% inherited from their parents.
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There's an almost parodic geekiness to the genre—artists altering lines of code with a flourish, showing their work on a screen.
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Although the study detected a presence of the mutations, Janecka said the researchers believe that the geekiness is mostly a result of familial traits.
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He returned with a question rooted in the intersection of breathless fandom and mathematical geekiness: Who would be the most accurately regarded player in soccer?
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Shirkers, an irresistible mix of insouciance and precocious maturity, delivers a story of ultimate geekiness, as director Sandi Tan sketches a portrait of her younger self.
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The researchers hypothesize that genes for geekiness and autism may overlap, and that those genes are more likely to appear in older fathers, who then pass them on.
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" Mackie's new companion is a character named Bill, who Mackie described as "wicked" and "fantastically written, cool, strong, sharp, a little bit vulnerable with a bit of geekiness thrown in.
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Though Transitions lenses get a bad reputation for their inherent geekiness, even the most ardent haters might warm to newly announced Acuvue Oasys contact lenses with Transitions Light Intelligent Technology.
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Its scares are aural instead of visual, unless you count the increasingly rapt expressions on the face of an inhibited Englishman named Gilderoy, played with uncompromising geekiness by Tom Brooke.
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" When she later saw a picture of him, she was unmoved, describing her impression of him only as that of "a guy with a big smile and a whiff of geekiness.
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Prius owners love to geek out over their mpg's, and the car is happy to feed that geekiness with a variety of charts and graphs that can be accessed on demand.
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Magdalena Janecka, a co-author of the study, told CNN that this could be because of the way the study defined geekiness, which might not capture the same qualities in women.
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To suss out the link between geekiness and paternal age, researchers examined cognitive and behavioral data gathered from 15,000 pairs of UK-based twins in the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS).
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But instead, it becomes, well, we're so used to geekiness and fandom and being a gamer as being this niche position that we kind of keep redefining who really counts as a gamer and what really counts as a game.
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That sort of fandom doesn't reflect the ways in which geekiness has evolved and been pried open, or the ways in which it is currently far more widespread and diverse and, at this point, culturally dominant than the stale vision of Ready Player One.
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And Mr. Moten's bespectacled (of course) Avery remains hilarious in his textbook geekiness — he's hyper-articulate and speaks and even moves with a robotic awkwardness — but also reveals himself to be the most sensitive and morally mature character, younger than the others though he is.
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Magdalena Janecka, a co-author of the study and a fellow at the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at Mount Sinai, said this could have to do with the way the study defined geekiness: It may not have captured the geeky characteristics of females.
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What I, in my policy geekiness, had failed to grasp — and what that aide, none other than Rahm Emanuel, knew — was the primacy of politics and the curious power of "pension portability" to command attention in Congress and the media (even among some for whom pension issues generally seemed complex and forbidding).
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This was no conventionally bent, conventionally cold politician; his geekiness and his zeal for mixing it up with the brass made me think of Private John Winger, Bill Murray's character in Stripes—if Winger had gotten out of the service, been gifted a seat in Congress, and pushed every personal, political, and legal boundary to its limit.
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As the mayor of Denver from 2003 to 2011 and then the governor of Colorado from 2011 until the start of this year, when he left office because of term limits, he was known for swearing off negative political ads, for gravitating away from divisive issues and toward whatever common ground he could find, and for a style with substantial measures of goofiness and geekiness but barely a pinch of truculence.
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Flood received generally positive reviews, though some critics expressed reservations. In an AllMusic review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that despite some inconsistencies and awkward selections, the album is musically superior to its predecessors. He observed that through Flood, Flansburgh and Linnell "exchange quirky artiness for unabashed geekiness". Six of the album's nineteen tracks are designated as AllMusic "picks".
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The strip centres on the unconventional family unit of Sheldon, Gramp and Arthur. Much humour is character-based, often joking at traits such as Sheldon's geekiness, Gramp's old age or Arthur's over inflated ego. Sheldon: is a ten-year-old kid who earned billions with his own software company: Sheldonsoft. Though his huge riches occasionally tempt him into buying something frivolous like, say, Panama, Sheldon mostly remains a normal kid.
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Weinersmith also returned to study around 2006 to provide inspiration for the comic, and studied physics, and considers that the rise in the geekiness of the comic happened at that time. As of 2012, SMBC received a quarter-million visitors a day and was described as one of the most popular webcomics. Weinersmith has published a number of books collecting SMBC comics. He has also produced new comics to illustrate Soonish, a book he co-authored.
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In 2005, Weinersmith wanted to work on SMBC full-time, and around this time moved to daily updates. By 2007, he was able to earn a living from the comic. Weinersmith also returned to study around 2006 to provide inspiration for the comic, and studied physics, and considers that the rise in the geekiness of the comic happened at that time. As of 2012, SMBC received a quarter-million visitors a day and was described as one of the most popular webcomics.
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" Bell has said that many of her characters are tomboys because she was "not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl". Bell signing autographs at San Francisco's Metreon (June 2006) Bell has been associated with the idea that "nerdy is the new cool", and she explained, "what was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into—it just means you're not a follower." She has also said, "I love nerds.
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At the end of Turn Coat, Butters took over as the "Game Master" for the role-playing Alphas after Kirby died. Harry introduces him to the remaining Alphas saying, "This is Waldo Butters, and his geek penis is longer and harder than all of ours put together." Despite Butter's apparent "geekiness" and love of all things polka, Harry holds him in high regard and treats him like a family member. In Changes, Butters was summoned by Molly to help an injured Harry because, according to Molly, Butters was the only doctor Harry trusted.
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Variety said "Ratray gets good mileage out of his role as a computer whiz too proud of his corpulent geekiness to consider a more glamorous substitute." In 2009, he was also a guest star on the fifth season of Supernatural in the episode "The Real Ghost Busters". In late 2007, a documentary film crew followed Ratray's attempts to win the heart of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He used 'love disks' -- love letters set to music and images—to serenade her, and traveled from New York, to Alabama, Denver, Palo Alto and Washington DC to court her.
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Fuddy-duddy (or fuddy duddy or fuddy-dud)Tom Dalzell The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English is a term for a person who is fussy while old-fashioned, traditionalist, conformist, or conservative, sometimes almost to the point of eccentricity or geekiness. It is a slang term, mildly derogatory but sometimes affectionate too and can be used to describe someone with a zealous focus on order.Karen O'Connor Fuddy-duddy Walkin' with God Ain't for Wimps: Spirit-Lifting Stories for the Young at Heart page 67-68 Refer to Gladwin's Men out of Asia (1947) for "Dr. Phuddy Duddy," modeled after a prominent anthropologist who poo-poos his theories.
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It was a sweet debut performance by hosts who may well be back at Radio City next June, should the Tonys be so lucky." In addition, Kristen Baldwin from Entertainment Weekly gave the show a B+, expanding in her review, "Hosts Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles kicked off the 72nd annual Tony Awards with the mix of showmanship, self-deprecating humor, and good-natured egalitarianism that would continue throughout the night." Deadline Hollywood critic Dino-Ray Ramos commented, "Bareilles and Groban live on the border of radio-friendly music and the Broadway stage, and they served as delightful cruise directors, devoid of forced jokes and corny antics. Instead, they leaned into their musical theater geekiness, which was infectious.
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However, since Ryan is not a geek and an old agreement between Gary and Monica states that both of them may only marry geeks, Ryan has to prove his geekiness by beating a roleplaying game scenario before Gary gives his blessing to the wedding. The fictitious roleplaying game featured in the film is an homage to the popular cyberpunk roleplaying game Shadowrun. Humans & Households (the title is a reference to Dungeons & Dragons) turns the concept of The Gamers on its head: Characters in the fantasy world of The Gamers play a roleplaying game set in our world. In April 2015, a web series continuation of the plot of The Gamers was announced.
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Within the trilogy, Tali is one of the most popular characters, with various sources describing her as a fan favorite. Steven Hopper, writing for IGN, listed her as his second favorite Mass Effect teammate after Garrus Vakarian, praising her "endearing geekiness" and the story that follows her. Similarly, UGO's Sal Basile listed her as the fourth best squadmate in Mass Effect 3, giving credit to her in-game abilities. Kate Gray from Kotaku was shocked and horrified by Tali's sudden death as an unforeseen consequence of her decision making during her initial Mass Effect 3 playthrough, which made her realized that for her, Tali had changed over the course of the trilogy "from a voiced collection of tech skills into a person whose input and companionship I valued... not, at least, until it was too late".
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