BEER Ch. 5 Revenge of the Nerds

[Dave Monroe]

"'What happened to revenge of the nerds?'" (BE, Ch. 5, p. 48)


Revenge of the Nerds (1984)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088000/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_of_the_Nerds
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/RevengeOfTheNerds


"'Is no revenge of the nerds, you know what, last year when everything
collapsed, all it meant was the nerds lost out once again and the
jocks won. Same as always.'"

NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDS!
    —Ogre when he first spots Gilbert and Lewis at Adams College

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZEdDMQZaCU

In 80s teen movies, if a character is sporting a letter jacket, it
might as well be the letter swastika, because he is going to be
committing crimes against humanity.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JerkJock
http://www.cracked.com/article_18902_5-horrible-life-lessons-learned-from-teen-movies_p2.html

Preterite

Calvinist/Puritan doctrine of the Elect (the chosen) and the Preterite
(the passed-over, the damned) ...

[...]

http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=P#preterite


"'Wall Street stupidity'"

E.g., Horst?


quants

Quantitative analysts

http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5#Page_48

A quantitative analyst is a person who works in finance using
numerical or quantitative techniques. Similar work is done in most
other modern industries, but the work is not always called
quantitative analysis. In the investment industry, people who perform
quantitative analysis are frequently called quants.

Although the original quantitative analysts were concerned with
investment management, risk management and derivatives pricing, the
meaning of the term has expanded over time to include those
individuals involved in almost any application of mathematics in
finance. Examples include statistical arbitrage, algorithmic trading,
and electronic market making.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_analyst


"stochastic crossover"

Ask any technical trader and he or she will tell you that the right
indicator is needed to effectively determine a change of course in a
stocks' price patterns. But anything that one "right" indicator can do
to help a trader, two complimentary indicators can do better. This
article aims to encourage traders to look for and identify a
simultaneous bullish MACD crossover along with a bullish stochastic
crossover and then use this as the entry point to trade.

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/08/macd-stochastic-double-cross.asp


"'Rachel on Friends'"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Green
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0007142/
http://friends.wikia.com/wiki/Rachel_Green-Gellar

"I love Chris, and he's the bane of my existence at the same time
because he started that damn Rachel, which was not my best look. How
do I say this? I think it was the ugliest haircut I've ever seen."

http://www.allure.com/celebrity-trends/cover-shoot/2011/jennifer_aniston#slide=1
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2011/01/jennifer-aniston-tells-allure-she-hated-her-rachel-hair--/1#.UmmZoxAoq8B

Jennifer Aniston's Stylist Was Stoned When He Gave Her the "Rachel" Cut

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-beauty/news/jennifer-anistons-stylist-was-stoned-when-he-gave-her-the-rachel-cut-2013105


"'Murray 'N' Morris, over in the Flower District?'"

http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=4364


trichologists

Trichology (from Greek θρίξ, gen.: τριχός, "hair") is the branch of
dermatology that deals with the scientific study of the health of hair
and scalp. Trichologists themselves are not normally licensed
healthcare workers, although members of the medical profession can
undertake courses and/or careers within trichology. Trichology can be
used in forensic studies of hairs to find suspects. Forensic
trichology can determine the approximate age, body mass, race, and
other important traits of the hair's owner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichology


"Sahag curlers"

This look used the Sahag curling iron to straighten pieces of hair and
sometimes actually using the curling iron to wrap the hair around.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2259343_get-jennifer-aniston-hairstyles.html
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