By: Carlo Rotella

The belt bearer is to some degree an oxpecker.

By: Sara Ryan

“I am my own horse.”

By: Barbara Bogaev

She tries to tell us that Speed truly is a demon on wheels…

By: Annie Nocenti

He’s destined to be both sidelined and kicked.

By: Joshua Glenn

What qualities do we look for in a sidekick?

By: Marc Weidenbaum

These nerds are libraries in human form, and all the more so collectively.

By: Vijay Parthasarathy

It opens up the possibility of traveling not just in space but also in time.

By: Russell Bennetts

Affine transformations, spinning backgrounds, and a scaling effect

By: Heather Kapplow

Propel myself, by sheer force of doing, into doing nothing.

By: James Parker

Re-re-re-watching an episode of Seinfeld.

By: Charlie Mitchell

It shocked me as a kid; now it’s a relief.

By: Kio Stark

Ostensibly, it can expand to infinity.

By: Eric Weisbard

My nerd passion is for too-quick and yet too-long summations.

By: Mandy Keifetz

Sasha…taught herself Klingon with a correspondence course designed by other geeks like her.

By: Tom Nealon

Keep fanning the edges and hoping.