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Geek

Informal and somewhat derogatory; a new hire at a Wall Street trading firm. The term was popularized by the book Liar's Poker, which describes the author's experience as a bond trader on Wall Street in the 1980s.

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Whatever my schoolmates may have thought about books and geekery, the markets certainly seemed to validate it: If I wanted to get books that were slightly off the mainstream, I would have to do it the hard way, or comb diligently through the stacks of the (admittedly underrated) book sales in malls.

Big bad book readers

What all this geekery means to you and I is bloody wonderful pizza.

Return of the pizza king; The North East's most candid food critic - now writing every Saturday in The Journal

What's the net effect of all this eco geekery? Well, it's actually rather impressive.

Is revised baby BMW still the one?

"We usually find the story behind the product, flavor or drink itself works best rather than too much technical geekery."

Mixing the grain and the grape: wine cocktails are becoming more popular--and more sophisticated

The line-up includes confident and affable Nik Coppin, the pop culture geekery of Paul Gannon and fabulously witty Amelia Jane Hunter.

Comedy gems all set to make you laugh; Other comedy

FAVOURITE BEER: Black Galloway - Sulwath Brewery AUGUST GREAT BRITISH BEER FESTIVAL THIS event at Earl's Court is a cornucopia of beer geekery, beards and woolly jumpers are out in force, especially at the 'breweriana' stall where you can buy beer mats, bar towels, pump clips and other stuff you'll never need.

A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF OUR 'ALE MARY' Beer lovers raise a glass for a full calendar of festival fun IF YOUR new year's resolutions are getting you down why not brighten up your 'to do' list with beer? Ale drinker MARY GRIFFIN spent last year exploring festivals across the country and found 12 gems to raise a glass to

Zionist camps like the one at which we'll be dropping my daughter this week, Zionist camps that embrace geekery. Her camp makes kids do chores.

In the Zionist Camp

"Think of them as the original, 'pure' technology geeks, before geekery gained its mainstream appeal," News.com.au quoted Koelbeck as saying.

Most iPad owners are 'over-achieving selfish elites'

Meanwhile Rodrigo focuses on highly technical guitar geekery and looking sultry.

Banging the guitar for acoustic rock; Nick LAVIGUEUR ROCK, POP & ANYTHING ELSE

Besides the culture of obscene geekery - no, I don't speak Klingon - the films are famously inconsistent and in 10 previous attempts has only ever attracted one director of note, Robert Wise.

Klingons on starboard bow; picture THE BIG

While attendees participated in the TOC conference enthusiastically, Publishers Weekly called it "a festival of practical geekery" (www.publishersweekly.com/ article/CA6453321.html), and Marci Alboher, an online columnist for The New York Times, called it a techie-meets-publishing idea extravaganza (http://marcialboher.blogspot.com/2007/06/ pondering-future-of-publishing-in-san.html).

O'Reilly Media launches TOC conference

The Beach Boys were masters of visual geekery, which might explain Hal's choice of a similarly geeky name (it's the computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey).