If it wasn't for these articles about these games I love, I would feel like I'm one of a handful
of nerds who play these.
A thumpingly funny sensation out of this year's Sundance Film Festival, Rick Famuyiwa's comedy follows a trio
of nerds who call L.A.'s violent Inglewood home.
It's got kind of a clever premise: Classic video game characters come down from space to wreck havoc on Earth, and a group
of nerds who were masters of those games must save us all from destruction.
I was one
of those nerds who flipped over to Netflix as soon as the Super Bowl concluded.
No longer is it just a small subset
of nerds who are carrying around a handful of electronic gadgets; tech has gone mainstream, leaving us all with more gadgets, USB cords and chargers than we can...
Now, a lot
of the nerds who read this (see attached image) will feel as if they can relate to pornstars more, and will therefore be lead into thikning that they're in the same league, gaining the sites more hits, and therefore making the plastic, silicone freaks more money.
«I'm one
of those nerds who walk around with a map and check off each booth as I see it.
Not exact matches
Paragon is an example
of how it is not just the «crypto -
nerds» and finance professionals
who are backing ICOs.
As the founder
of nerd - oriented e-newsletter GeekChicDaily, Peter Levin was the Batman to Hardwick's Superman, unlikely allies
who fought in the same universe.
With the possible exception
of Ellison, they were actually all
nerds who were passionate about their work.
It strikes me, in reading Snyder's collected stories, that the «cool kids»
of tech are imposing on women the lousy environment they once suffered through — back when they were the
nerds who got teased and hassled.
For example, the gal
who makes fun
of herself for being a
nerd when she really wants to draw attention to the fact that she's smart or the guy
who makes fun
of himself for having a strict diet when he really wants you to know how healthy and fit he is.
Co-founder Dick Talens and co-founder Brian Wang are former out -
of - shape
nerds turned bodybuilders
who thought
of turning fitness into a game.
They really listen to the parents
who use their products, and they just keep coming through for all
of us baby carrier
nerds (like myself)!
Robbins» epiphany came in the nick
of time considering that the DOL rule is due to be released Wednesday, inevitably placing a premium on advisors
who toe the fiduciary line, says Michael Kitces, writer
of Nerd's Eye View.
That is: the mind caught in an alien body; the not - quite - genius
nerd who's «the king
of foreplay» or will do anything to «get laid» and, really, anything to have a relational life with a pretty girl; the highly erotic metrosexual
who turns the whole cosmos into a romantic tale that has room for appreciating «The Good Wife»; the guy
who is better than he says (but still genuinely short on manliness), but
who is creepy in his ingenuity when it comes to using his robotic gadgets for personal satisfaction.
She plays the sort
of person
who was too cool to be a
nerd but was always more popular on Tumblr than in real life.
McLaren's work and Emergent's conferences display an unflinching embrace
of technology and cultural relevancy, like so many
nerds who have only recently discovered they can be cool.
Nerds who read blogs will note his mention
of THE FEDERALIST PAPERS.
Suffice to say: self - confessed «
nerds» around the world, people perhaps a little like Hazel and Augustus,
who don't quite fit in but want a full life and a better future, have found purpose and fellowship through the pioneering leadership
of the Green brothers.
I only recently discovered Austen's work but he's since become my go - to for resourcing Christians
who are new to the topic
of transgender identity and faith because this guy is SUCH a Bible
nerd!
The small but powerful
nerd army known as the Whovians spontaneously combusted as one with the news from Doctor
Who scribe Steven Moffat that the 50th anniversary special would feature all
of the series» past Doctors.
I don't disagree with the aspiration to improve sermons — I'm one
of those Bible
nerds who actually enjoys long, dense sermons.
Speaking about the film recently in Los Angeles, Cera —
who in this film, takes some refreshingly bold steps away from his usual one - note
nerd persona — and co - writer / director Edgar Wright (
who also did the zany cult classics Shaun
of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) discussed the meaning
of the film, the stretching Cera had to go through for the role, and the way in which the film's hyperkinetic action sequences are really just the same as the dance scenes in Grease or a Gene Kelly movie.
And for anyone
who suspects that hemp brownies are truly a throwback to the 60s, let me say, first
of all, that the hemp seeds in these are the edible kind, so you are not ingesting any mind - altering chemicals whatsoever here (unless you count the flood
of serotonins in the brain due to their heavenly taste); and second
of all, hemp is not the same thing as hash, and
of course the classic hippie confection was a hash brownie; and third
of all, how the heck would I even know, because I never did manage to consume any
of the latter, even in my undergrad days, because I am such a
nerd that nobody ever offered me any, and hash brownies never appealed to me, anyway — I mean, why sully your chocolate with psychedelic drugs?
Got a couple
of friends
who like to
nerd out on natural wine?
I wanted to learn a bit more about one
of my favorite breakfasts (the extreme foodie
nerd I am), so I searched for
who invented the pancake.
Charlotte had spent weeks basically calling Bayley a
nerd who was no better than the other
nerds in the audience, and Bayley has been trying to tell her that actually, being a
nerd is good and is also the source
of her power.
A bubbling controversy among golf
nerds who watch the PGA Tour each week is also players not marking their ball up on the green and providing a backboard
of sorts for a potentially fast - moving chip shot.
Golf
nerds who tune into the PGA Tour regularly will tell you that ProTracer is one
of the best things to happen to the way golf is broadcast on TV.
For the
nerds out there please find me another football coach
who has ever done that «in the middle
of the season»
There's the geeky Clarence Nerdelbaum,
who carries a calculator and pocket «
nerd pack» full
of pens and pencils; Dr. Outrageous, a hip neurosurgeon in a surgical mask and scrubs; and Gary Wallstreet,
who competed last spring in the Wall Street Rat Race, a 3K run in which the runners circle Manhattan's financial district in business togs while gripping attachè cases.
The TV situation is still a mess, and while you and the rest
of the baseball
nerds know
who Scott Kazmir and Kenta Maeda are, all the typical fan knows is that Zack Greinke isn't there.
Meant the «golf
nerds»
who know and love him as opposed to the casual fans
who have probably never heard
of him.
The architecture
nerds,
who can always pick nits, will tell you how it can be better with some widening
of the fairways and changes in maintenance.
The
nerd thing was hammered home for a couple
of years, with Bryan's own manager — known as a Pro in NXT parlance — the Miz basically shitting all over Bryan for a lack
of charisma or ability to work a mic, in contrast to the Miz
who had some WWE success behind him and was a reality television star from his time on MTV's «The Real World.»
The message was clear, and it was one lead announcer Michael Cole loved to reiterate: WWE audiences wanted and WWE itself needed more
of a showman like the Miz, not some sub-200-pounder
who could be labeled a
nerd and hadn't achieved anything in wrestling's major leagues.
A friend
of mine
who attended Stanford with me wrote her application essay as a comparison
of herself to a
Nerds rope.
Nerd and geek culture is more popular now than it ever has been before, and people
who were children in the age
of geeky video games and nerdy TV shows are now adults raising their own children.
I am a science
nerd who works in the pharmaceutical business and dreams
of taking new adventures!
As someone
who is in tech and not on the West Coast, Ohanian praised the fact «that after years
of telling people bring in the
nerds, we need more leaders, we don't need more bureaucrats in government, we need people
who actually get things done,
who have actually created things, we need them in office... for the first time I felt that there were candidates
who represented the needs
of 21st century New Yorkers.»
«Here I was, a 23 year old
nerd, working on this website, and I got to meet one
of the [Original Gangsters]
of the Internet... this is one
of the leaders and pioneers
who worked to help make my career possible.
-- I never fell in with the games
nerds who endlessly played Magic: The Gathering on the bleachers by the playground, despite the fact that their recess sessions at least gave them a smidgen
of a social life.
There are
nerds even within
nerd - dom: Even though you all love science, you still think, «at least I'm cooler than my co-worker
who won't shut up about Settlers
of Catan.»
«Star Trek has heroes
who aren't
nerds, instead
of «honey, I shrunk the little kids», or «tommorrow ve destroy the vorld»,» he said.
She has also been rehearsing all night for a production
of The
Who's Tommy, a rock opera starring a pinball wizard as the classic
nerd — socially isolated, extremely talented in a single area.
The Amazing Story
of Quantum Mechanics By James Kakalios (Gotham) Professor and professed
nerd Kakalios explains the quantum world through science fiction characters like Buck Rogers and Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen,
who «gained independent control over his quantum mechanical wave function» to teleport and change his size.
Some people imagine this creature as a pimply
nerd in the sky
who is running a cosmic copy
of The Sims,
who are us.
Despite her accolades, Blackburn is warm and accessible, with traces
of the shy science
nerd who would serenade creatures as a child.
Alternative facts are not facts at all, but socially sanctioned beliefs, said Bayer,
who has studied the scientific literature
of persuasion enough to call himself a «persuasion
nerd.»