And we are treated to lashings of nerdish criminological data.
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Each room offers a mix of nerdish nostalgia, film history and technological innovation.
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The idea of Mr Bloomberg in a presidential television debate fills fans with nerdish joy.
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The novel is known only to nerdish nationalists; Stephen Bannon, Donald Trump's consigliere, is a fan.
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Other gangly, nerdish kids took solace in the stupid wish fulfillment worlds of fantasy or science fiction; I had Chick tracts.
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In contrast to other popular Marley books, in which every detail merely anticipates the singer's eventual breakthrough, Steffens's contribution is his nerdish monomania.
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Nerdish and soft-spoken, he loves to dwell on the case for prudence, caution and "facts on the ground"—hardly a rallying cry for populist times.
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Videgaray, who earned a doctorate in economics from M.I.T. (his thesis: "The Fiscal Response to Oil Shocks"), has a reputation for nerdish brilliance, and also for arrogance.
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This is my weekly column for VICE in which I discuss comics, zines, art, art books, illustration, animation, toys, and anything related to art, beauty, or nerdish shit.
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And while he does sometimes break longstanding conventions of song structure or performance, it's clear that this comes from a nerdish study of rap rather than an alien disregard.
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As shown in the feature film The Theory of Everything, which tells the human story behind his struggle, Hawking was far from being the archetype unworldy or nerdish scientist.
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Opponents of HS2—from the nerdish Campaign for Better Transport to the right-wing TaxPayers' Alliance—worry that its huge budget will mean less money for improving local links.
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Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and Will (Noah Schnapp), the four boys at the heart of "Stranger Things", remain enamoured of all manner of nerdish delights.
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"Whitehall boffins are trying to demarcate areas of knowledge and culture, trying to distill them into British identity, which is kind of amorphous," he added, using a British term for a nerdish expert.
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When he was young, his father took a job helping to set up local chapters, and Tillerson eventually became an Eagle Scout, one of an élite class of "servant-leaders" distinguished by obsessive, nerdish attainment.
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So Supreme will likely continue to create quality items with interesting classic-post-retro-indie-nerdish style but marketing and producing the pieces with limited runs, tons of slick branding adverts, reaching more into the mass market.
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"Television shows like The Big Bang Theory and nerdish masculinities necessary to save the day in films like Live Free or Die Hard illustrate that nerds are both teased and afforded new forms of status today," Bridges explained.
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Under the influence of the nerdish engineer Tom Marshall, a new ideology sprang up called Libertarian Zionism: "the idea that the only way to find freedom in this unfree world was to hide from or physically escape the eyes of the state," Doherty explained.
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There was a design manifesto to accompany the exhibit, which included an exposition of his wide-ranging techniques — from ceramic shelling to spruing — as well as a nerdish homage to the extensive range of tools and materials he uses, including the 187-year-old ash tree he felled at his grandfather's farm and later turned into tables and chairs.
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This online backlash was able to mobilize a strange vanguard of teenage gamers, pseudonymous swastika-posting anime lovers, ironic South Park conservatives, anti-feminist pranksters, nerdish harassers and meme-making trolls whose dark humour and love of transgression for its own sake made it hard to know what political views were genuinely held and what were merely, as they used to say, for the lulz.
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He also doesn't find a visual rhetoric that's analogous to Elena's nose-tugging narrative, with its air of nerdish obsession and banked fury—as opposed to, for example, the way that " The Wolf of Wall Street " felt distorted to reflect its narrator's mania, or Jennifer Fox's " The Tale ," another story in which a woman examines her painful childhood, made theatrical the clash of past and present.
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A village schoolteacher in the west of Ireland chafes at his humdrum future and falls for an unknown girl in a beautiful car; a nun leaves the convent and has the new adventure of taking tea in a department store; a nerdish young man, exhausting his parents with his obsession with the memory-training system known as Pelmanism, embarks on life as a showman.
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Russell thanks her, then asks, if he can touch her breast, to which she calmly replies "No sweetie". With leaves from the bushes sticking out of her hair, Becky says some people think she doesn't have time for a life of her own. But now that her dad has run off, her mom needs her. Becky gets offered a ride home by the nerdish girl whose outfit matches hers.
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Lawrence Cheng brought his comical slightly nerdish and slightly fantasia film persona into films since the mid-80s. He has acted in mainly comedy films over the next ten years and a few drama films. He occasionally wore more than one hat like other Hong Kong actors. After graduating from the Baptist College in 1978, Cheng immediately joined RTV in which he worked on numerous popular television series.
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Once again, Alfalfa and Butch are bitter rivals for the affections of Darla. The nerdish Waldo comes up with a solution: Alfalfa and Butch will compete for the title of Junior Mayor of Greenpoint during Boys' Week, and whichever one wins will earn the honor of escorting Darla to the annual Strawberry Festival. But despite the strenuous efforts of both young candidates, a "dark horse" wins not only the election, but also the girl.
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John Shuttleworth is a fictional singer-songwriter and radio presenter, created in 1986 and performed by English comedy actor and musician Graham Fellows. Shuttleworth is in his late 50s and is from Walkley in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. He has a quiet manner and slightly nerdish tendencies. His musical talents are usually expressed through his PSS portable keyboard and include "Pigeons in Flight", a song that Shuttleworth attempted to have selected for the Eurovision Song Contest.
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The anthology series was renamed Hollywood Sexcapades and the characters of Olivia and Cooper were said to be out of the country opening a new branch. Candi Hicks, a recurring customer in the first season, became the new employee of Black Tie dating service. She and Ryan (who was no longer nerdish) partnered to run the company, and the continuing subplot was the budding romance between these two characters. Each week they would continue to try to play matchmaker to that episode's guest stars.
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Michael James "Mike" Doonesbury is the main character in Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury. He started out as a nerdish freshman from Tulsa at the fictional Walden College, and shared a dorm room with B.D. Currently he is married to Kim Rosenthal, and divorced from J.J. Caucus. Mike's daughter, Alex continued to live with Mike and Kim, until she left to attend MIT. He has a younger brother, Benjamin (who during some time as a punk rocker was known as "Sal Putrid"), and a widowed mother who died in late 2010.
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The pedophile is revealed at this point to be Marty, the nerdish office worker. Two sociopaths are pulled over by a cop on the highway, but end up overpowering the officer, shooting him and driving his vehicle into the ditch. They later rob a woman using an ATM at gunpoint, lock her in the trunk and leave it in the mall parking lot. The pair then make their way to a convenience store, in which clerk Willie and his friend Carl hang out during the late night hours.
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He was considered a nerdish intellectual in rim glasses, going against the stereotypes attached to weightlifting. At the 1964 Summer Olympics he finished second, after another Soviet weightlifter, Leonid Zhabotinsky. Vlasov was breaking world records at the 1964 Olympics and was aiming to retire from competitions with the gold medal. He was bitterly disappointed by the tactical tricks played by Zhabotinsky during the final clean-and-jerk event, which he considered dishonest – Zhabotinsky intentionally failed his second attempt, and talked and behaved as if he does not compete for the gold medal.
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After an enthusiastic response from the audience, the scheduled run at the Royal Alexandra ended and the show moved uptown to the Bayview Playhouse in Leaside. The Bayview Playhouse production ran until August 1973, with a then- record run of 488 performances. An alumnus of both the Second City, Toronto and the sketch comedy series Second City Television, Levy often plays unusual supporting characters with nerdish streaks. Perhaps his best-known role on SCTV is the dimwitted Earl Camembert, a news anchor for the "SCTV News" and a parody of real-life Canadian newsman Earl Cameron.
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The campy, slapstick video was made in the retro style of an Edwardian-era drawing room murder mystery, à la Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock. The storyline revolved around a series of comic disasters that befall an awkward, nerdish character (played by Simon Le Bon) and his girlfriend while visiting a haunted house. Nick Rhodes plays the debonair host of the dinner party at the house, and he frequently uses Le Bon as his comic stooge for a number of macabre and mildly sadistic sight gags. Various unsavory bits of business ensue with revolving walls, trapdoors and mysterious assassins hidden behind paintings and within exotic taxidermied animals.
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Just when it seems that the Ax Murderer – so dubbed by the press – is on a roll, the killings stop at three. The work to find a connecting thread is shared by a crew that includes Beate Moerk, a dedicated, single female colleague with dreams of becoming a private detective; Münster, a detective whose career is creating cracks in his marriage and family life; and others like the nerdish Kropke who bring their professional skills as well as their personality traits to bear. All strive to solve the puzzle as time runs out, especially when Beate Moerk goes missing while jogging late at night.
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In April 2007, he was named Educator of the Year by Loyola Marymount University and in February 2008 the Insight Education Group named Alan Lawrence Sitomer the Innovative Educator of the Year. Sitomer has also authored multiple young adult novels published by Disney and Penguin Putnam which include The Hoopster, Hip-Hop High School, Homeboyz, The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez, Nerd Girls: The Rise of the Dorkasaurus, The Downside of Being Up, Daddies Do It Different, CinderSmella, and Nerd Girls: A Catastrophe of Nerdish Proportions. The American Library Association named Homeboyz a Top Ten Book of the Year 2008. It also received the prestigious ALA Quick Pick Recognition for young adult novel which best engages reluctant readers.
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In the music world, he is creator and lead singer of the comedy-rock bands Dead Schembechlers (a send-up of the Ohio State University versus University of Michigan football rivalry) which he formed with members of the Columbus, Ohio-based band Watershed as well as the Grumpy Old Punks (a band which features comedic punk rock takes on middle aged life). Other novelty flavored music has been released under the monikers Ol' Dirty Brutus (nerdish hip hop music) and Lou Brutus and the Perfect Pachydermus Percussion Pitches (baseball themed tunes). He was a co-writer on the Dash Rip Rock concept album Hee Haw Hell. Early in his career, he created tracks to the WMMR Morning Zoo Abbey Dirt Road and Zoo's Next albums.
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Aardman Animations' headquarters in Bristol Aardman was founded in 1972 as a low-budget project by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, who wanted to realise their dream of producing an animated motion picture. The partnership provided animated sequences for the BBC series for deaf children Vision On. The company name originates from the name of their nerdish Superman character in that sequence. After creating a segment called "Greeblies" (1975) using clay animation, became what was the inspiration for creating Morph, a simple clay character. Around the same time Lord and Sproxton made their first foray into adult animation with the shorts Down and Out and Confessions of a Foyer Girl, entries in the BBC's Animated Conversations series using real-life conversations as soundtracks.
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Bank loan officer Jerry Harden has his life turned upside down when a scruffy-looking guitarist named Izzy shows up at his bank office. It is revealed that Jerry was a member of a hard rock/glam metal band called Rock Toxin, and the members are planning a one- time-only reunion. Jerry is reluctant, as he prefers suburbia to the wild rock lifestyle he left behind, but is forced to reconsider when he finds that he doesn't have enough money to send his 17-year-old daughter Olivia to college. Since Jerry has never told his wife Allison about being in the band, he embarks upon living a hectic double life: nerdish pillar of society by day and heavily-made-up rock singer by night.
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A nerdish bookworm, Flynn is brilliant beyond compare. By the time he was 31 years old, he had earned 22 academic degrees—12 Bachelor’s degrees, 6 Master’s degrees, and 4 doctorates—including four degrees in Egyptology, a doctorate in Comparative Religions, and a Ph.D. in Cryptology. In the beginning of The Quest for the Spear, his Egyptology professor signs off on his 23rd degree. (The precise degree is not known, but it must be either a master’s degree or a Ph.D, because he already possesses a B.A., a B.S. or both in the relevant field.) Practically addicted to learning, Flynn would have continued being a perpetual student had Professor Harris not awarded him the degree mid-term, making it impossible for him to sign up for another course for six months.
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The other "superheroes" are Val Andrist, the environmentalist daughter of an Ice Cream magnate who can fly; Francis Dutton, an aromatherapist hippie with a sonic scream; Lauren Isley, an elderly woman who can predict the future (but is so absent-minded she got confused with the past); a cat that became a giant when scared; and "Gecko", a nerdish man who can stick to walls. EEMs were also gifted to a group of supervillains and attracted to one another in order to ensure battles would occur (e.g. the loser-turned-monster Nunzio, whom Lou brain-damaged via unintentional electrocution). Other stories involved a Nazi dinosaur from a parallel universe named Tyrannosaurus Reich, a demon-possessed toddler, carnivorous alien worms, an overly adoring fan of Lou's that tried to kill him to make him more famous, and an alien time traveler that destroyed time.
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Louise (Duncan), Adam (Owen), Lestor (Godley) and Francine (Vickerage) are four Londoners in their late 20s or early 30s (although Duncan was 48 at the time of filming), all living in Ladbroke Grove. They are constantly meeting up in each other's flats or in a nearby coffee bar to drink and discuss life, love and sex (possibly due to some of the subject matter being dealt with, the series was broadcast in a post-News at Ten slot). Adam was the smart, cool one; Louise his glamorous friend and landlady; Lestor, his nerdish best friend; and Francine his latest girlfriend, a newcomer to the bunch who - lacking confidence with new people - was finding it hard to fit in. Furthermore, Adam and Louise had enjoyed a brief fling in the past and there was still an attraction between them.
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Pitchfork wrote that MiniDiscs [Hacked] did not "make for an ideal listening experience" and would be of interest "only to the most diehard Radiohead fans". They observed a "few moments of brilliance (and strangeness)", including Yorke's acoustic songs, the extended "Paranoid Android", and an alternative version of "Lift" that "could have topped the charts". However, The Guardian felt MiniDiscs [Hacked] had merit "even for less nerdish fans", and wrote that was "an endlessly interesting chronicle of a band reinventing the mainstream by rejecting it ... [it shows] the inner workings of what is regarded by many as the greatest album of the 1990s, showing how they walked alongside and then turned away from the brash Britpop that surrounded them." New Statesman wrote that "starting, skipping and scrolling" through the lengthy tracks "makes for a surprisingly liberating experience, akin to wandering Radiohead’s subconscious memory palace and occasionally encountering the familiar in a different form".
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