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  • But I spent 45 minutes being bucked to the "tekkies" and "engineers" and even with them had to do WAY too much explaining of this simple issue.

    The Bandwidth of Big Hair 2006

  • One of the biggest growth sectors in the state is biotech, and the tekkies are notoriously independent.

    Caryl Rivers: Blood Sport in Mass: All Politics Is Local 2010

  • Please keep speaking up against the tekkies who want to cull and weed out and suppress and manage democracy.

    Open For Questions Needs MORE Pot Smokers! 2009

  • Digital-brained tekkies, who have never heard of the problem of evil, see heaven on earth (eternal growth) just around the corner.

    From a Failed Growth Economy to a Steady-State Economy 2009

  • I personally don't favour marijuana legalization and think pot makes people stupid, but I was absolutely appalled at the tekkies 'response to these persistent voters.

    Open For Questions Needs MORE Pot Smokers! 2009

  • Just becaue the tekkies out there (and, by the way, I am a hard-core Trekkie) will purchase these machines, those of us who truly appreciate the book as we have so far known it will continue to shell out our hard-earned cash in order to own the ones we covet.

    Fast Company dialogue: Is print dead? « BuzzMachine 2005

  • I'm amazed at how this totalitarian way of thinking catches on so easily among tekkies.

    The inevitability of voice 2007

  • You say: There's not necessarily any judgement, only the bland confidence of tekkies that correctness will rise to the top, that real authority will emerge somehow by mass wisdom, that the hard left or hard right will wash out in the middle.

    Feeling Crowded? 2006

  • There's not necessarily any judgement, only the bland confidence of tekkies that correctness will rise to the top, that real authority will emerge somehow by mass wisdom, that the hard left or hard right will wash out in the middle.

    Feeling Crowded? 2006

  • You'd have to reconstruct the humanities and re-present them to tekkies to get them to re-engage.

    The essential paradigm of cyberspace 2006

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  • South African slang - runners, sneakers, sport shoes.

    June 15, 2010