Arunabh Das's definitions
nerdismo is nerd-machismo. It goes a step beyond just plain "being a nerd" to the realm where you flaunt the fact of living the nerd lifestyle...
I love Richard Stallman for his nerdismo, yo!
by Arunabh Das January 30, 2007
Get the nerdismomug. Wherever there is a big candidates' debate there is Spin Alley. After the debate, journalists have to write stories, produce TV packages. For this they need quotes and authorized knowers who can talk on camera.
There to provide such are the spinners: hired guns, stand-ins, soulmates who agree to meet the press after the debate to explain why their candidate "won." Of course this is a verdict known in advance; however that fact too is known in advance, so no one really minds. Spin Alley will live again in whatever large, air-conditioned room is next designated for the ritual. Unless it's stopped.
There to provide such are the spinners: hired guns, stand-ins, soulmates who agree to meet the press after the debate to explain why their candidate "won." Of course this is a verdict known in advance; however that fact too is known in advance, so no one really minds. Spin Alley will live again in whatever large, air-conditioned room is next designated for the ritual. Unless it's stopped.
After the debate, I took the press shuttle back to the media center -- and to the small section therein blatantly designated "Spin Alley," ringed on three sides by bare-bones makeshift broadcast platforms and stuffed to capacity with reporters, camera crews and politicos. Everywhere you looked there were clusters of media people surrounding spinners and surrogates, whose names were printed on laminated red signs held high above the crowd by aides. I felt like I was standing in the middle of one of my own damn cartoons come to life.
by Arunabh Das April 24, 2005
Get the spin alleymug. by Arunabh Das April 22, 2004
Get the Nilesh Mohanmug. This is twecsitgredep. If I had more time, I would tell you what I mean by that but my home is being repossessed, my bank has gone under and my plastic surgeon wants to perform liposuction on me so he can eat. So I'll save time by referring to it as the twecsitgredep.
by Arunabh Das February 18, 2009
Get the twecsitgredepmug. Adding "bling" including slick-looking UI elements, fancy-shmancy AJAX and web 2.0 interactivity to websites and web-applications and "pimp" your "web-crib".
by Arunabh Das February 18, 2009
Get the webchromingmug.