When we were talking about gifts to give his classmates, of course he like
the idea of Nerds candy, but I wanted to give the kids a non-candy Valentines idea too.
The words related to
the ideas of nerds and popular kids.
Not exact matches
Evan Shapiro, executive vice president
of NBCUniversal Digital Enterprises, announced the new service in a presentation Thursday morning in New York, where he hammered home the
idea that comedy is the most popular genre for streaming programming and that Seeso aims to provide content curated for and by «comedy
nerds.»
Effective altruism has been called «altruism for
nerds,» and revolves around the
idea that quantitative approaches can be used to determine the best possible use
of resources — time and money in particular — to maximize the good those resources can do for humanity on a global scale.
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I'll hardly be the only person to note this, but the transition
of Game
of Thrones from «fantasy series where half the audience knows the source material and has a good
idea of what will happen» to «fantasy series where those
nerds are getting their minds blown like the other plebes» has been an absolute delight.
Which, as ever, fail to move much beyond «some laptop - wielding
nerd identified Oussama Assaidi as a prospect and as such the very
idea of counting can not be trusted.»
Since I'm a documentary
nerd (my
idea of a lazy Saturday is to binge - watch Netflix documentaries), I decided to watch «The Business
of Being Born» just for fun.
I don't know whether this is a good
idea or not, but we started giving a teeny piece
of candy (like literally one
nerd) right after a diaper change if she promised to be good.
At the end
of the day, a
nerd is a
nerd, Kakalios admits comfortably, because he is also a comic book aficionado: «Geeks are people who get turned on by
ideas» whether that's about spider powers or quantum mechanics.
I would point out that most readers
of these pages probably fall into the fitness / nutrition
nerd category and as such have a better
idea of what they're eating and expending than a more general population.
While preparing for that event and ruminating on what exactly I would wear to be a pinup style version
of literary badass
nerd Hermione Granger, I found myself thinking up a lot
of different
ideas for this costume that could all be kept and worn again as my normal non-costumed self after the trip.
The
idea of online dating being only for
nerds or those who can't meet anyone in the «real world» is becoming more and more outdated.
Even more interesting, in an interview with
Nerd Report, Pearce said his «gigantic, bold
idea» gives everyone involved the tools to, potentially, link all
of these movies back to the original films:
Imagine Animal House or Revenge
of the
Nerds with a PG - 13 rating and you get an
idea of the kinds
of compromises necessary to allow teenagers into this movie.
The internet calmly took this news in by immediately casting about for wild rumors regarding what this might mean for the second film — specifically, the
idea that once it was made clear the Captain Marvel movie (coming out in between the two Avengers films) would feature the Skrulls (a race
of green - skinned shape changers, for all you non-comic
nerds), the fourth Avengers movie would turn its attention to a «secret invasion» storyline, starring said aliens.
Worst
of all, Peyton barely if at all references the game upon which it was based, even as an Easter egg for
nerds like yours truly; but then again, that game itself was kind
of a Frankensteinian hybrid
of old - school monster movies, making this adaptation's departures feel like some sort
of feeble and unsuccessful full - circle gesture to liberate its
ideas from a derivative foundation.
The story's main
idea that Denis Cooverman's best days lay ahead
of him and that someone like Beth Cooper may have already peaked reeks
of the wish fulfillment
of a
nerd - domination agenda.
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of nerd culture, TheNerdyTeacher is for you.
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I am a Social Studies / Literature
nerd, and the
idea of spending my time creating science plans often makes me cringe, until recently.
Experimenting, mashing elements together and seeing what happens, can lead to
ideas straight out
of a childhood Nintendo
nerd's dreams.
Part
of this is the
nerd - fan - boy in me, definitely, but nothing will be that Seven Stars experience or that intro to Inside Story, that
idea of Mushroom Kingdom having MORE to it, that SMB isn't JUST about saying the Princess from Bowser (which in itself is a half - assed excuse to collect coins, attend stars, and find secrets).
Perhaps the media should create a new class
of hero, not the narcissistic celebrity or sports star, but the
nerds and geeks and just plain curious folk whose
ideas will bring about an Eco and Economic revolution.
Was the FutureFirm game was just a bunch
of legal
nerds rolling around a 12 - sided die all weekend, or might some
of the
ideas generated at the conference actually help change the profession for the better?