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It can take a long time to diagnose some issues, like driver problems or faulty hardware — so this may actually lead Geeks to avoid these more difficult problems.
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But in most of America, he said, nerds and geeks are people to avoid.
If you're a Twitter user (and the Guardian is very likely to assume you are), you will have been unable to avoid many angry geeks filling your timeline with tweets about the digital economy bill that was recently, ah, pushed through the Commons after a brief sojourn in the Lords.
The good news is that it's an easy mistake to avoid: asking another geek or a knowledgeable shopkeeper which ones are really good will make your gift that much better.
In fact, I struggle desperately to avoid using the word "geek".
In place of Mr. Moore's shy burger-flipper, Mr. Ramis's film stars Brendan Fraser as Elliot Richards, a socially maladjusted tech-support geek whose office mates go to great (and justifiable) lengths to avoid having anything to do with him.
The idea is to avoid a costume-ish look — Southern gentry, Ivy League professor, classical architect, 1960s geek — while hinting at some romantically out-of-it, bespectacled antihero.
"He was a geek like the rest of us," said one member of the group, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid a flood of media inquiries.
So the studios followed the geeks to Comic-Con.
The working group students were transformed from geeks to heroes.
The headline was changed from The top 10 geeks to The top 10 geek heroes as the writer originally intended.
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