We won’t directly jump into the movies because everybody knows about the first appearance in the movies, right? But, did you know about the first appearance in the conic?
He first appeared in the comic book called Anthology comic book called “Amazing Fantasy #15”. Of course, 15 is the number here. The comic was released and published bac in August 1962. That was the time when comics books were a lot more popular. Comics were so much popular that people often called it the silver age of comics books.
Many comics are coming which introduced new storyline. As people loved Marvel Comics, Spiderman was a hit. People loved spiderman.
For the people who don’t know about Peter (well, there would be very few who don’t know), Peter Parker is the original name of the spiderman in the comics. He was an orphan raised by his uncle and aunt. His uncle's name was Ben and the name of his aunty was May. His parents died in a plane crash. The name of the parents was Richard and Mary.
He was a human mutate. The story goes something like this. He was bitten by a spider. At first, he thought it was a normal spider but it was a radioactive spider. This happened when he was at a science exhibit.
Thereafter, he got all the strengths of arachnid. There were many good abilities like he could adhere to walls and roofs. This is how the name “spiderman” came into the picture. He gets the spiderman costume thereafter.
Thereafter, he develops his gadget which makes him give adhesive. Many people thought that this ability came directly from the spider, right? Well, that was not the case, the gadget was made by himself.
This is how the great spiderman starts which is still going and will continue in the future too.
You probably might be wondering or might want to count all his abilities, right? Here is the complete list of all the abilities he has.
https://www.marvel.com/characters/spider-man-peter-parker
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Let’s first see how the character enhanced the show. With the catchphrase “Sorry, Bart!”, the character is Bart Simpson’s best friend. The situation takes place in the fourth grade when they are studying in Springfield Elementary school.
The Milhouse’s character is shown as insecure, gullible, and a bit less popular as compared to Bart. Being with the same kind of person, he is often led into trouble. Of course, the main reason behind the trouble is Bart. As Milhouse is naïve, Bart takes advantage of him.
Due to the same characteristics, he is often targeted by bullies. The interest parts get because he has a crush on Bart’s sister. This makes the show more interesting. The name of his crush and Bart's sister is Lisa. In many episodes, this is the main plot of the show.
With the things you are reading, you surely might be wondering about the appearance of the person. Milhouse is nearsighted and that’s why he wears glass. The color of the glasses is red. Like most Caucasians, the geek has a yellow color. However, he has got blue hair. He usually wears a purple color t-shirt, red shorts, and he has got some matching shoes with the color of his shorts.
As most of the Caucasians in the series have not got eyebrows, our geek of the month is one of the few characters that has eyebrows.
Now, if you have not yet watched The Simpsons, you will see these phrases repeated several times by our geek of the month.
Milhouse often uses these catchphrases during the show.
Now, we will see some of the notable dialogues.
To summarize, this was all about Milhouse from The Simpsons. If you have not watched Simpsons, you should surely do. This is one of the best shows ever. You will surely find Milhouse’s character interesting. Don’t forget to remember our article when you hear one of his notable dialogues. That’s it for this month’s geek of the month. Don’t forget to check out next month’s geek of the month.
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He was born on Feb 23rd, 1983 in the city of Columbia in South Carolina. It was a Tamil Muslim family in Tamil Nadu. He grew up in Bennettsville. The education was done is Marlboro academy and Government school for science and math.
That was about his school life, his graduation was done in the New York University Ste School of Business. This was the year 2004 when he graduated.
His career consisted of many things. His early career was mostly on comedies and television films. Some of the notable work done by him includes Human Giant, Parks and Recreation, Master of None, and many others.
At first, he accepted many television works where he could make his performance. He appears in one of HBO’s series which was Fight of the Conchords. It was a short role where he played a fruit vendor. His lines were to tell the difference between Australians and New Zealand.
After appearing on various televisions, he started appearing in the movies. His film career has many notable films that you might have known. Some of the well-known films of Ansari include Get Him of the Green, 30 Minutes or Less, and many similar movies.
Other than movies, he also did various tours for stand-up comedy shows. One of his tours became a special show for Comedy Central. It was when Ansari was on the Glow in the Dark tour which was for one of his stand-up comedies.
Being a geek, he didn’t stop after that. His standup comedy was all about his life experience. He said the same thing in one of the interviews. He shared his personal experiences in stand-up comedy. That was the reason why all of his stand-up comedy shows were unique and original. People always love listening to him about his experiences.
Along with this, his writing was also quite good. His book got a lot of appreciation from many famous people. It was written with Eric Klinenberg and was all about dating in the current modern world.
Ge started performing in the Theatre. At first, he was Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. He was there in the weekly shows including Invite Them Up. After a little struggle, he got in Rolling Stone’s Hot List. The list was about the comedians.
His early career was also as a stand-up comedian. His first comedy special was Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening. In the same way, he also wrote his book “Modern Romance: an Investigation”. It was way after his first show. The book was released in 2005. Due to all these, he was added to the most influential people in the 2016 list by Time 100.
These were some of the best days of his life. Did we mention that he was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album? His comedy genre was liked y many people whereas some people didn’t like it. He won the jury award for the best Standup. This was in HBO back in 2006 before he was nominated for the Grammy.
Throughout his career, he got nominated for various awards. He won many of them. In 2014, he won the Variety Power of Comedy Award. In the next year, he got nominations in some of them but didn’t win any. However, in the next 2 years that is in 2016 and 2017, he won 5 awards. Recently, in 2020, he also got one of the nominations.
Most of the awards are for stand-up comedy and less for the films. However, we can’t say that there are no nominations for that. Ansari has a great grip when it comes to stand-up comedy.
Let’s talk about some of the things that make him the Geek of the Month.
He was the first Asian American guy who won the Golden Globe award for the best actor. It was in the comedy as we mentioned. He majored in marketing Unlike many other actors, he didn’t leave the college and completed the graduation before jumping into the comedy and film industry.
The next thing is all about comedy. The way he does comedy is very unique. Today, most comedians share the same theme. However, back in the time, few comedians uniquely shared their personal life as Ansari does.
He was brought up as a Muslim. However, as per his Twitter bio, he isn’t religious.
Many people didn’t like the blue comedy he did. However, as it was his passion, he continued to do so.
While we are talking about the geek of the month, let’s have a sneak peek into the personal life of Aziz Ansari.
Like we mentioned earlier, he is not a religious guy. He is a feminist. According to him, his girlfriend influenced him a lot in being that. He even mentioned the same thing in one of the episodes of Master of None.
He likes eating food but hates the word “foodie”. Aziz with his two friends Eric and Jason have formed “The Food Club”. They even rewarded restaurants with plaques of “Food Club”. However, he still doesn't like the word “foodie”. This is the reason why Aziz is an amazing geek.
Aziz also did a music video with Jay Z and Kayne West. The song's name was “Otis”.
Who doesn’t know Jeff Bezos, he is the CEO of the biggest eCommerce giant – Amazon. He is an American billionaire entrepreneur and a philanthropist. Jeff created Amazon in 1994 intending to sell books. Now, it’s one of the largest eCommerce companies in the world.
Geek’s life is always amazing, let’s have a sneak peek inside the life and see how the Amazon was created.
Jeff was born on January 12th, 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His real name is Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen. Jorgensen was his last name as he was born to Ted Jorgensen and Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen. Ted was a bike shop owner whereas his mother was just a high school girl (yes, you read it right). Did you know his mother was a 17-year old girl when she gave birth to Jeff? She got married earlier than that.
Later on, his parents got divorced and his mother married Miguel aka Mike Bezos (who was a Cuban immigrant). That’s when his surname was changed to Bezos. At that time, Jeff was only 4 years old. This solves the mysterious question that many people had in their mind – Is Jeff Bezos adopted? His faster (Mike) adopted his mother's first child (Jeff).
He did his schooling in River Oaks Elementary school which was in Houston. After sixth grade, he shifted to Miami palmetto high school. He got his electrical engineering degree and computer science from Princeton University. He got his degree in 1986. Unlike most of the billionaires, Jeff was not a college dropout. Instead, he has a very good GPA in college life. He was also a member of the Quadrangle Club in Princeton. Before that, he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Right after he got his degree, he got many job offers. Some of the well-known companies that wanted to hire Jeff include Intel, Bell Labs, as well as Andersen Consulting. Not to mention, there were many other companies. Jeff chose to work with Fitel start-up instead of others. It was a fintech telecommunication company. The main role of Jeff was to build a network for international trade. He was good at this. That’s where he got promoted.
However, he shifted to Bankers Trust where he was a product manager. The year when he started working at Bankers Trust was 1988 and he continued to work there for two years straight.
Of course, you guess it right. He changed his job after that. There was a new Hedge fund which had a very strong fundamental. Therefore, Jeff joined it. The fund was D.E. Shaw and Company. He worked here for 4 years. He was good at this work too. Therefore, by the time he was 30 (4 years at work), he became 4th Senior vice president.
Thereafter, he did exactly what a crazy entrepreneur does. Yes, he left the job. A year before leaving the D.E Shaw, he had a thought of creating an online book store. That’s when he left the job and thought of creating Amazon. That’s where the real Geek life begins.
After college, he also worked at wall street. While growing up, he used to work on his grandfather’s ranch repairing Caterpillar tractors.
If you are thinking that he got the name Amazon from the forest or the river, then you are right. He named his company Amazon after the Amazon River in South America.
Want to hear one more fact? Amazon was NOT the initial name of the company. Before changing the name to Amazon, Jeff had earlier named his startup Cadabra. As you might have guessed, it was taken from the magical phrase “Abra Cadabra”. He kept it because the initial of the company was the first letter of Alphabet. The company was founded in a garage in Seattle. The date was July 5th, 1994.
He got the initial funding from his parents which was roughly $300,000. Later on, there were many investors in the company. Jeff told all the investors that there was a flat 70% chance that the company would fail or simply go bankrupt. Despite the warning, many of them stayed there.
This is how Amazon started as an online book store. The founder always thought of expanding the business to other products along with books. So, this was always in the mind.
After running it for 3 years, Jeff was all set to launch the IPO. Unfortunately, he got many backlashes from Fortune, Barron’s, and many others. However, they were eventually provided wrong. After 1 year of IPO, Jeff included music and videos.
Later on, Jeff started scaling up the eCommerce giant. What this, popularity also started increasing.
Today, it is one of the largest eCommerce websites out there. According to a survey, 89% of people will prefer Amazon over any other platform. There are more than 150 Million Prime users (we are not even taking new users and regular users into consideration). It all started with books. Today, more than 44% of Americans have purchased electronic items from Amazon. Currently, he owns an 11.1% stake in Amazon.
Amazon now offers its services to various countries and in some products, international shipping is also available.
There are many subsidiaries owned by Amazon. Amazon is now spread in every possible industry. Starting from cloud services (AWS) to the app market (Amazon App Store). Amazon is still expanding the business in every possible way they can. The prime access allows you to access many of these premium services. Whereas, half of the services work as an individual subsidiary.
Amazon started as an online book store and now it has many subsidiaries that are compiled based on books. For example, they have got Audible which is an audiobook platform and they also have Kindle (and Kindle store) which is for eBooks. In the same way, they also own Goodreads which is a community for book lovers. There are more than 40 subsidiaries of Amazon.
Jeff became a millionaire in 1997. That was the same year when Amazon raised money with the help of IPO (Initial Public Offering). By the end of 1999, he is net worth was 10.1 billion dollars. However, it declined over the next few years. In 2002, his net worth was only 1.5 billion dollars. That was a huge drop in 3 years. However, Jeff continued to work with the vision, and his net worth umped 66.6% in the next year itself.
According to Forbes, his current net worth (Nov 2020) is $183.8 Billion, and is the richest man in the world.
Most people only know Jeff Bezos for Amazon. However, he also owns an aerospace company. The name of the company is Blue Origin. The main aim of Blue Origin is to produce space vehicles affordably. They use reusable launch vehicle to achieve it. There are more than 2500 employees (as per 2019 reports).
The CEO of Blue Origin is Bob Smith and Jeff owns the company. The company was launched on 8th September 2020. In 2016, Amazon was doing very well. Bezos sold $1 Billion worth of Amazon stocks and invested that amount in Blue Origin. There are 20 Blue Origin Space vehicles.
Blue Origin works with NASA, ULA, and many other military agencies too. The name has a very interesting meaning. “Blue” is because Earth is a blue planet and the last word is because Earth is the origin of the planet.
There are many known vehicles in the company. However, the most popular one is New Shepard which is a suborbital rocket that can also carry passengers.
Jeff is one of the richest people in the world. As of Oct 2020, he is the richest person in the world with a net worth of $190 Billion which is 70 billion more than the second richest man.
Other than Amazon, Bezos also owns The Washington Post which is a newspaper company. Bezos face some accusation about controlling the content of the newspaper. However, they were dismissed soon. Later in 2016, Jeff changed the entire platform by enhancing the entire company to the online platform. That’s the reason behind the success of The Washington Post. He bought the company for $250 million in 2013. Before acquiring it, he even created a holding company which was known as Nash Holdings LLC.
Along with this, Jeff has already invested in many companies including Google, Unity Biotechnology, Grail, Juno, ZocDoc, and Therapeutics. He invested in Google right from the start. Jeff was one of the first shareholders in the tech giant. All the investments are made through his Venture Capital vehicle aka Bezos Expeditions.
There are many people with the “Philanthropist” tag in the world, Jeff is also one of them. He donated a lot of money to the people in need through various foundations and in uncountable ways.
Between 2009 to 2017, he donated a lot to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research center. In 2003, he pledged $500k to Worldreader. Many such donations are managed by the Bezos expeditions. He also created a separate fund for such a cause. In February 2020, he donated 10 Billion to combat climate change. Starting from college scholarships to energy funds, Bezos has donated a lot of money for all the cause.
During the global pandemic, he donated $100 Million to food banks with the help of Feeding America. Not to mention, Amazon also helped many sellers to sell online during the lockdown in many countries.
Of course, you might surely want to know about the personal life of the geek, right?
He is a self-made billionaire. Most of the wealth comes from Amazon. However, his investments and other companies are also his sources of income. According to Forbes, his Philanthropy score is 1 and the self-made is 8.
While he was working for D.E Shaw, he met MacKenzie Tuttle. She was a novelist, Bezos married her a year later. They had 4 children (three sons and one daughter who was adopted from China). However, the couple got divorced in 2019. His wife got 25% of the Amazon Stock. On the plus side, Bezos would have all the voting rights. Did you know the divorce was announced on Twitter?
In March 2003, he was traveling in a helicopter with only 3 passengers. Unfortunately, the helicopter crashed in West Texas. This was because the tail of the helicopter hit a tree. Luckily, Bezos only suffered a few minor injuries which were cured in the hospital on the same day itself.
We started the “Geek of the Month” section not only to tell you about the person but also because you can learn from these people.
Be stubborn and Flexible: Of course, you need to be stubborn and flexible whether it’s for business or life. Jeff added that the real part is to know when to be which.
So, these are some of the things that you need to learn from the Geek of the month – Jeff Bezos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos
https://www.forbes.com/profile/jeff-bezos/?sh=606f6dc71b23
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