This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is from Berry2Droid, who wants to geek-up monitoring his first-born.
Welcome to Growing Up Geek, a feature where we take a look back at our youth, and tell stories of growing up to be the nerds that we are.
Welcome to Growing Up Geek, an ongoing feature where we take a look back at our youth and tell stories of growing up to be the nerds that we are.
But it's always important to remember that the entire world is far from growing up geek, and the differences in the opportunity that just a little technology affords is the difference between growing up successful, and struggling to grow up at all.
The day has been set up by Lady Geek, the campaigning agency that wants to make technology more accessible to women.
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She proudly talks about how hard it was to be a geek when she was growing up with all the tact of a codger trying to get kids off her lawn.
Head geek Harry Knowles has been talking up the movie to the fan boy crowd which could spur good word of mouth.
When he started in business the younger Mr Li's arrogance made him plenty of enemies, but he has since grown up, discovering his inner geek along with a softer style.
So find a new best friend who is a computer geek to be your tech tutor, or sign up for a course.
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It's important that you can squash anyone who might call you 'geek' or 'nerd' and that you can pick up girls, but also equally important that you know the "Star Wars" movies by heart, and understand programming ideas, like recursion and inheritance.
This move is likely to make the Geek Squad a stand-alone brand in itself, and open up a new stream of revenues for Best Buy.
As a kid growing up in Connecticut's Fairfield County, he was a theater geek with an asymmetrical skater haircut and a bedroom full of Stephen King and Dean Koontz novels.
By all accounts, he rolled up his sleeves and dove into business strategy the way he used to geek out on the minutiae of public policy.
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Aaron Harris, a 27-year-old Harvard grad who recently moved his start-up, Tutorspree, to TriBeCa from California, says Palo Alto has cheap avocados and the geek scene at Philz Coffee.
Where the average user picks up their new iPhone they want to play a game or make a FaceTime call, the geek immediately wants to know what settings they can customize.
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