According to the latest Hollywood power list, the six most influential people in the business today are not, technically speaking, people: 1. Rex Buckpasser, virtual studio boss: This widely feared honcho, created by two geeks with an iMac in a Silicon Valley garage, earned the top spot on the list by working 24-hour days without stopping for lunch, Perrier or oxygen.
The rubber-wheeled super skates, which resemble Lego on wheels, or retro-geek mobility suitable for Maximus Prime and his ilk, are not short on technical specifications: Each skate features by two 50w brushless motors, one inside each front wheel.
The first message appeared in the trade press – in PC Magazine and Laptop and the like – the advertisements were a step removed from the two ads above: for geeks, by geeks.
And it all started when some geeks stole two servers.
For years, it has been the key metric by which chip geeks compared one chip to another.
Still, "Social Physics" is a fascinating look at a new field by one of its principal geeks.
Plus, at the cyberjoint you can hang out, have a beverage and maybe even befriend a local techno-geek or two, which will certainly assuage that lonely feeling experienced by wanderers of the world and the web alike.
But for geeks, two things about iOS 7 stand out.
The basic setup is catnip for theatre geeks: two Broadway songwriters (Debra Messing and Christian Borle) collaborate with a manipulative, Black-Swannish, British director-choreographer, played by the delightful Jack Davenport.
Although there's more romance in "Buck," a classic American survivor story in the triumphant individual vein, in "Pianomania" the very dry, very accomplished Mr. Knüpfer makes engaging company both because he keeps enviable company and because he's a full-on geek, though one possessed by pianos.
