{"id":2394,"date":"2004-05-23T23:53:53","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T03:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/05\/23\/geekman-to-the-rescue\/"},"modified":"2004-05-23T23:53:53","modified_gmt":"2004-05-24T03:53:53","slug":"geekman-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/05\/23\/geekman-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Geekman to the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3397'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/geekman.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jkbaumga\/2004\/05\/20#a1147\"><em>Jessica&#8217;s<br \/>\n        speculation<\/em><\/a><em> on what her action figures do when no one is at home might<br \/>\n        have something to do with the recent appearance of the Geekman model&#8230;..<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s first nerdy action figure has gone on sale.<\/p>\n<p>        The GeekMan doll is armed with a laptop computer, coffee mug and thick<br \/>\n          glasses.<\/p>\n<p>        It is billed as a superhero for every man who has ever been teased about<br \/>\n        spending more time on his computer than on his wardrobe.<\/p>\n<p>        Standing six inches tall, the toy doll sports jeans, sensible shoes and<br \/>\n        a black t-shirt.<br \/>\n        His super powers, according to his creators, include opposite sex repulsion,<br \/>\n        analytical reasoning and less than ideal hygiene routine.<\/p>\n<p>        The action figure is being sold at stores in North America and is also<br \/>\n      available online at www.happyworker.com.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_964038.html?menu=\">Ananova<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica&#8217;s speculation on what her action figures do when no one is at home might have something to do with the recent appearance of the Geekman model&#8230;.. The world&#8217;s first nerdy action figure has gone on sale. The GeekMan doll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/05\/23\/geekman-to-the-rescue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}