Described by one prominent critic as Revenge
of the Nerds with an increased fart quotient and added projectile vomiting, this dumb - dumb frat comedy cast Heder, Spade and Schneider as a trio of losers who form a baseball team to thwart a bunch of elementary - school bullies; Heder played a booger - eating dork with an unhealthy degree of maternal attachment.
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.
He worked hard and became a bit
of a nerd with his best buds Ben (Austin Abrams) and Radar (Justice Smith), while she was the cool rebel, reading poetry and having adventures.
Not exact matches
And, having played ultimate throughout summer camp as a kid (often
with Marc), briefly in college, and for two seasons in a scrappy New York City league (yes, I realize I'm officially coming out
of the
nerd closet here), I was invited to play Thursday.
Canadians
nerded out en masse this week
with the return
of the mandatory long - form census.
Gaining perspective is the most fundamental aspect
of progression; and because I'm a huge
nerd at heart, I believe reading full - fledged books (
with sound arguments and universal wisdom) is one
of the best ways to combat the wealth
of digital misinformation we're faced
with today.
Combine this insatiable demand for talent
with a sub-cultural shift
of regarding labels such as «
nerd» and «dweeb» as positive indicators
of nuanced passion rather than pariah - like brands, and you end up
with many more people interested in coding.
Rubin gestures toward a very large
Nerds box (the World's Largest Box
of Nerds, in fact), a wall
of Hello Kitty gear, and another featuring Marilyn Monroe T - shirts, lunch boxes, and even chocolate bars
with her face on the wrapper (the company recently bought the exclusive candy rights to her likeness).
With the possible exception
of Ellison, they were actually all
nerds who were passionate about their work.
One
of the original founders
of NextGen, 34 - year - old Michael Kitces, partner and director
of research at Pinnacle Advisory Group in Columbia, Md., and publisher
of The Kitces Report and the blog
Nerd's Eye View, says that over the next year or so, advisors will continue to struggle
with the «really difficult market environment.»
Along
with all 500 + episodes
of the series, the app is essentially made to convert any casual fan into a full - fledge Simpsons
nerd by giving them access to tons
of extra features like custom playlists, a Simpson - centric newsfeed, crazy specific search capabilities, behind the scenes content and more.
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.
They are so about the coming revenge
of the
nerds that they forget that even scientists and philosophers have to be animated by erotic longings that could only exist in beings
with bodies, minds, and other stuff too — in persons.
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.
To the delight
of Tumblrs everywhere, the first photo
of Sherlock «s Benedict Cumberbatch as Wikileak's Julian Assange in the new Assange biopic The Fifth Estate has graced the Internet
with its
nerd - blessing presence.
I don't disagree
with the aspiration to improve sermons — I'm one
of those Bible
nerds who actually enjoys long, dense sermons.
Give it a rest, because even a bully in a school yard would know that out
of nothing nothing happens, but
of course it would take the
nerd to conceive what the bully would not get even perhaps at a ripe old age, that what was always before the something which lead to the «thing» on the bully's hand was the Infinite and that what's on the bully's hand can be infinitely divided, or that between the bully's pinky and thumb exists an infinity in itself, as is between the number 1 and another number 1 (one unit and another unit), which make 2, or that the bully's hand will at one infinitely minute point in time disolve into the INFINITE, give it a rest Tom, Tom
with the spelling, since you can not comprehend what lays between the fine letters, let alone conceive the truth, and distill knowledge from the ore your inadequate imagination fails to mine.
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haha I'm kind
of a kitchen
nerd for sure, but these are loaded
with healthy calories and protein, hence the «POWER», so I'm okay
with it!
I wanted to make a delicious, decadent recipe for Easter brunch to share
with you guys today, and couldn't help but notice that tomorrow is the biggest
nerd holiday
of the year — pi day!!
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?
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I'm a bird lover, coffee drinker, and huge food politics
nerd working on a project examining the economics
of CAFE and FT coffee,
with applications for eco-certified coffees and other similarly certified products.
The Ferrero Group and its affiliated companies («Ferrero»), a global confectionary group, announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition
of Nestlé USA's confectionary business,
with more than 20 iconic American brands, including chocolate favorites such as Butterfinger ®, BabyRuth ®, 100Grand ®, Raisinets ®, Wonka ® and the exclusive right to the Crunch ® brand for confectionary and certain categories in the US, as well as sugar brands such as SweeTarts ®, LaffyTaffy ®, and
Nerds ®.
My favorite ice cream shop had them as 1
of their 100's
of topping choices and I couldn't resist — A bowl
of vanilla
with a side bowl
of nerds please — Nowadays, I haven't tried to make that many vegan ice creams but
with this book I think ice cream would become the staple
of my diet.
Nestle ®, Toll House ®, Nescafe ®, Butterfinger ®, KitKat ®,
Nerds ® and associated logos and designs, are trademarks
of Societe des Produits Nestle S.A., and used by Crest Foods, Inc.
with permission.
One
of the guys is a huge tea
nerd, so these DJ - ed parties
with house music have a stand set up that serves tea.
-LSB-...] Stuffed Chicken The Love
Nerds Flavors
of Fall Pasta Dinner Becky's Best Bites Apple and Chicken Salad
With Honey Poppyseed Dressing Around My Family Table Apple Stuffed Pork Chops Diary
of a Working Mom Turkey Breakfast Sausage -LSB-...]
(Knife
nerds indeed: Van Wyk admits
with a sheepishly proud smile that they can even tell, based on the color
of an old knife's patina, what ingredients the user primarily worked
with.)
The coffee program alone would put the nerdiest
of coffee
nerds to shame: Beans are brewed in a half - dozen methods (AeroPress, V60, etc.), and baristas dream up concoctions like The Notorious F.I.G. (cold - brew
with fig - amaro syrup).
There are some well - founded critiques
of how the place has been maintained over the years, and architecture
nerds will continually point out how much better it could be
with a restoration to its original layout and conditioning.
Instead, he got into some weird, overly lengthy feud
with Dolph Ziggler where Dolph didn't look like a
nerd the entire time, and in 2017 - 2018, that is like, the only point
of Dolph Ziggler.
Play a competition once in a while and you'll be able to compete and make friends
with a whole bunch
of fellow table tennis
nerds like me!»
This year, the Travelers made waves
with its field in what has become, for golf
nerds, a low - key story
of the season.
Plenty
of nerds have gotten into sports analytics
with the thought
of being able to expose everything that old - school coaches and analysts don't understand.
This isnt the kind
of fanciful «diversity» that
nerds tend to get mad and rant about to begin
with.
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.»
A friend
of mine who attended Stanford
with me wrote her application essay as a comparison
of herself to a
Nerds rope.
So much
of this course resonated
with things I believe in and practice, and the former science
nerd in me loved hearing about the research backing behind different concepts (though fear not, it's all very practical — you won't need to think about statistics!).
Some
of us might associate board games
with children and
nerds, but they always have been a popular activity for adults in Europe, local board game fans say.
Back to School Candy Grams — Make the first day
of school extra sweet
with these clever back to school candy grams using Red Hots, Airheads, Extra Gum, Starburst, Crunch and
Nerds.
And
of course, the internet responded in fine form,
with lots
of talk
of Obama losing the
Nerd Vote, being banned from Comic - Con, etc..
We started
with a focus on the SOPA protests and Chris Dodd's new education on the power
of internet politics, but we went much farther afield, including ruminations on the nature
of a post-manufacturing America... yep, we did some good, old - fashioned
nerding out (in which the eternal subject
of a genocidal war
of robots vs. humans did
of course come up).
Web tech site Nettuts + has a must - read (for online politics and technology
nerds) interview
with Daniel Ryan, OFA's Director
of Frontend Development.
As a military history
nerd, I'm reminded
of the tanks
of World War 2 — the Russians built a standard model (the T - 34) that was good enough, easy to manufacture in huge numbers and easy for draftee farmboys to learn to use (the Americans solved the same problem
with the Sherman).
Miliband has been described as a «combination
of alpha male and
nerd», and throughout the interview he speaks
with authority and precision.
Perry's not the only one playing
with math: the Obama campaign is hiring a cadre
of numbers
nerds to help it leverage the vast amount
of data generated by field organizing, social media, direct mail and digital advertising.
-- 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.
These days I feel as though I'm walking on a tightrope,
with a crowd
of ravenous faux robotic
nerds on one side and a gaggle
of sentimental antiquarians on the other.