I thought it was amusing at the time and filed it away as a curiosity: geeks, after all, are notoriously paranoid about these things.
He was an equity derivatives geek, after all (though some made fun of him for having to learn the business at Goldman, as opposed to, say, high school).
A bad week for women and a good one for geeks, sighed an industry insider after a couple of days that saw one of British publishing's two queens abdicating, and the other resigning herself to a less regal role.
–in Dream Child after turning a comic geek victim into a paper cutout and slashing him to ribbons, a reference to the campaign against comic books from the 1950s "Yeah, what are you on?
However technologically accomplished the company's computer geeks, witness after witness proved geekishly maladroit.
The social nexus of the school, Anish and Nirav said, divided into familiar segments: the jocks and cheerleaders; the T.I.-maniacs (these were geeks, named after Texas Instruments, maker of the favored calculator); the drug users; and the overachievers.
"I was like, look at this -- geeks going after the Church again," she said.
The one that called me a gook?" "A gook motherfucker," Colin corrected.
We never did get the damn thing to produce beer, even after a number of geeks and ex-bartenders went to work on it.
One geek drinks a blenderized brew of cayenne, pickles, chili and after-dinner mints on a bet.
