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Geeks seeking geeks: A guide to nerd-friendly online dating
posted by Amy Lynch on March 25, 2010
Dating is hard. Those of us who want to find that missing jigsaw puzzle piece are constantly dealing with the frustrations of wading through a sea of mismatches, while those of us who just want to play the field can sometimes feel disconnected, alone and not just a little bit jaded. According to those in the know, it can be even harder for the… ahem… more intelligent set.
Chic Geek of the Week: Tina Fey
posted by Amy Lynch on December 04, 2008
She was the first female to earn the position of head writer of America’s most famous live sketch comedy show. She was named one of the “100 People Who Shape Our World” by TIME magazine. She immortalized herself as a master impersonator - and, frankly, spitting image of - one of the most polarizing figures in world politics today. And she made librarian glasses cool.
Tina Fey’s razor-sharp wit was evident in eighth grade when she leapt headfirst into an independent study project about comedy. Born to a brokerage employee and a grant writer in a suburb of Philadelphia, she grew up watching Saturday Night Live in the 1970s and 80s. Little did she know back then that she would later contribute to the episodes that raked in the show’s highest ratings ever (and became NBC.com’s most-watched viral video) by doing a series of dead-on impressions of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Chic Geek of the Week: Danica McKellar
posted by Amy Lynch on July 25, 2008
This week’s brainiac bombshell: Danica McKellar. You may remember her as Kevin Arnold’s long-standing crush, Winnie Cooper, on the classic television show The Wonder Years. More recently, you might have caught her in her role as Elsie Snuffin on The West Wing or Trudy on How I Met Your Mother. Or perhaps you’ve perused a physics journal and stumbled across the Chayes-McKellar-Winn Theorem she co-authored before graduating summa cum laude in mathematics from UCLA.
Danica took a break from acting to pursue her studies in math and then took her education a step further by sharing it with anyone who would listen.
(photo credit: USA Today)
Chic Geek of the Week: Natalie Portman
posted by Amy Lynch on July 16, 2008
Starlets. They’re everywhere. On television, in magazines, splashed across the Internet, and constantly in our faces, the Hollywood It Girl is as ubiquitous as oxygen. We can’t seem to escape her, and some of us admittedly don’t want to. But to those of us who pride ourselves on our intelligence, aren’t some of these so-called role models rather… uninspiring?
Here at Nerd Girls, we like to give props to girls who say what they mean and mean what they say. And when they’re smart, isn’t what they say a whole lot more interesting?
Photo Credit: People.com
