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“I feel like a plumber at a flower show ” — Glen Hansard (of the Frames) on attending the Oscars and winning the Best Song Award for “Falling Slowly” from “Once” which he wrote and co-stared with Markéta Irglová.
or as it’s more accurately called, the Chewbacca defence but what about the geek defence.
The Geek Defence is the nickname given used in the trial of Hans Reiser accused of the disappearance and murder of his wife Nina. The basis of the defence is that a geek doesn’t seem to think that certain weird things are, well, normal. For example, removing the battery from his mobile phone (and also his wife’s mobile) in order to prevent tracking.
So it might be possible for geeks and nerds to use the (not uncommon in the computer programming industry) Asperger’s Disorder as a defence? Oh goodie, let me get my axe.