COLUMN: Way of the geek

University Wire;  July 9, 2002 ;     679 words ......WIRE) BURNABY, British Columbia -- Computer geeks are a separate species from the rest...stuck in the dark ages. You see, us computer geeks don't really get a whole lot of dates...be given the mark, warning all other computer geeks to stay away from you. Cheese that...

Alaskan computer techs find success with geeky image.

AK Journal of Commerce (Anchorage, AK);  December 5, 2004 ;     700+ words ......computer repair shop. The name: Alaska Computer Geeks. The logo: A keyboard, manned by a...feet getting back to us. With Alaska Computer Geeks, the name says it all. And if that doesn't get you, that logo will. Alaska Computer Geeks is a computer service and support company...

Festival for computer geeks.(News)

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  May 20, 2004 ;     34 words ...MORE than 40,000 visitors are expected at Stoneleigh Park over the weekend, starting on July 30, for a computer festival. Organiser Jeremy Spencer believes the e-Festival could grow into a Glastonbury for computer geeks.

Computers - headache or panacea?(Column)

Business Forum;  March 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......future. Many books written mainly by computer geeks argue that the computer has already...technology via the Internet. Serious computer geeks (this may be an oxymoron) are predicting...such numbers, people-especially the computer geeks-have reached unbelievable extremes...

COLUMN: Computer geeks have all the power in this world today

University Wire;  January 25, 1999 ;     637 words ......it controlled the lives of so many "computer geeks" I knew. I decided long ago that the...problem" were big hoaxes made up by computer geeks looking for jobs. I also didn't believe...that day. It pains me to say this, but computer geeks have all the power in this world nowadays...

'Geeks On Call' Refocuses National Brand to Emphasize '1 800 905 GEEK'...

PR Newswire;  November 13, 2006 ;     460 words ...NORFOLK, Va., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- These days, the sight of computer geeks making house calls is commonplace. But that wasn't always...changed when industry pioneers like Geeks On Call reinvented computer geeks as the superheroes of today's digital world. Sure enough...

Viridian's bitch goddess v. the computer geeks. (Letters).(Brief...

Whole Earth;  December 22, 2001 ;     185 words ......it is not a dark feminine force that rears its ugly head. No. What I curse is the digital masturbation of a bunch of male computer geeks who don't know their ascii from a hole in the ground. It's not about a dance with the goddess, it's about competition, greed...

`COMPUTER GEEKS' DESERVE APPLAUSE

Sun Publications (IL);  January 5, 2000 ;     343 words ......afraid of computers to begin with, particularly when they crash and disrupt our work day. In this circumstance, though, the "computer geeks," as we are wont to call the professionals in that industry, came through big time. The Y2K computer bug could have been...

Computer geeks now the cool kids in class

The Press;  July 20, 2000 ;     248 words ...Computer geeks are now "the coolest kids in class". A National Opinion Poll (NOP) in Britain found that the Internet has transformed youngsters...

How absurd was this Rose Bowl.(The Orange County Register)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  January 3, 2002 ;     700+ words ......overmatched kids from Nebraska were the embarrassing bunch of BCS computer geeks who put them in this game in the first place. The Cornhuskers...Harrington and the guys from Oregon wanting to tell those computer geeks where they could stick their final rankings. The favored...

How absurd was this Rose Bowl.

The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  January 4, 2002 ;     700+ words ......overmatched kids from Nebraska were the embarrassing bunch of BCS computer geeks who put them in this game in the first place. The Cornhuskers...Harrington and the guys from Oregon wanting to tell those computer geeks where they could stick their final rankings. The favored...

Book reviews: JPod: Generation game over for computer geeks who inherited...

Scotland on Sunday;  June 11, 2006 ;     425 words ......with J, hence their deployment to Jpod. What they also have in common, however, is a now familiar group dynamic between computer geeks in fiction - they pass the hours playing games involving pi and prime numbers, or endlessly discussing obscure cultural...

COMPUTER GEEKS PLAYING BIG ROLE.(Sports)(Column)

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  October 24, 2004 ;     603 words ......No big deal; more than a month remains in the regular season. And at least Southern Cal, not Southern Methodist, is No.1. Computer geeks tell us it'll all come out in the wash - or machines, in this case. The computers merely need more information. Give them...

Keeping secrets. (Forum on Science & Technology).

Phi Kappa Phi Forum;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......summer of 2002, a group of 31,252 computer enthusiasts (aka, computer geeks) completed a quest that had occupied them for almost five...cracking. Note that the RC5 message cracked by our band of computer geeks, who may today have less computing power than did the government...

Computer 'Geeks' will make house calls

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 10, 2003 ;     326 words ...Computer 'Geeks' will make house calls Dallas Morning News Tuesday, June 10, 2003 Thomas Dupree considers himself the 21st-century equivalent of...