Citations:nerdvana
Noun: "(slang) a place or state of happiness and fulfillment for nerds"
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- 1994, Editor & Publisher, Volumes 69-72, unknown page:
- Dilbert, the "cartoon hero of the workplace," is boldly going where no comic strip has gone before, experiencing "nerdvana" on the information superhighway.
- 1995, Robert Sam, Teach Yourself MFC Library Programming in 21 Days, Sams (1995), →ISBN, page 572:
- Just as Visual Basic brought closet Windows programmers out into the open, so might Delphi allow these same programmers to take an even bigger step toward 'nerdvana'.
- 2000, John Robbins, Debugging Applications, Microsoft Press (2000), →ISBN, page 388:
- As you'll see when I get to the section "Implementing LIMODS" later in this chapter, I was able to achieve the elusive dream of code reuse and nerdvana.
- 2003, Stephen Brown, Free Gift Inside!!: Forget the Customer. Develop Marketease, Wiley (2003), →ISBN, unknown page:
- It was perfectly pitched at the online gaming community, as an immediate off-the-dial reaction bore witness. It was webhead heaven. Nerdvana, no less.
- 2005, Gordon Meyer, Smart Home Hacks: Tips & Tools for Automating Your House, O'Reilly Media (2005), →ISBN, page 133:
- Have you ever noticed how your laser printer usually is switched off when you want to use it? This simple hack will save you from having to leave your comfy chair just to switch it on. Ahhh, Nerdvana.
- 2005, The Best 357 Colleges, 2005 Edition, Princeton Review Publishing (2005), →ISBN, page 754:
- One such student writes, "For fun, we FIX things. We hook up homemade stereo systems to our televisions, we rig washing machines, we program computers, we play Risk, Warcraft, and any other strategy game on the market." Worcester is not a pure Nerdvana, though; […]
- 2007, John A. Little, The Cryptanalyst, Marcas Books (2007), →ISBN, page 126:
- And who in nerdvana ever dreamed up these juvenile Java terms anyway?
- 2008, Paul Thurrott,Windows Vista Secrets: SP1 Edition, Wiley Publishing (2008), →ISBN, page 193:
- The idea is that users will get used to virtual folders now, and then perhaps a future Windows version will simply move to that system, and eventually we'll all reach some nerdvana where all the silly file-system constructs used today are suddenly passé.
- 2009, Warren Ellis, Shivering Sands, International Electrophonic Unit (2009), →ISBN, page 86:
- There's a middle distance between the complete collapse of infrastructure and some weird geek dream of electronically knowing where all your stuff is. […] Between apocalyptic politics and nerdvana is the human dimension; how this stuff is taken onboard by smart people at street level.
- 2010, Steven Savile, Silver, Variance Publishing (2010), →ISBN, page 278:
- It was like a geek boy's nerdvana, floor to ceiling gadgets.