Firedog was launched in August 2006 to provide in-store, in-home, and online computer and home theatre technical support and installation services in competition with other retailers ' consumer and business technical services offerings such as Best Buy's Geek Squad and Staples EasyTech.

The Geek Squad is a subsidiary of the Best Buy Company and is based in Richfield, Minnesota.

The Geek Squad provides services in-store, on-site, and over the Internet via remote access, and also provides 24-hour telephone and emergency on-site support.

Geek Squad " precincts " exist in all Best Buy stores in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, China, Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Best Buy terminated its partnership with Office Depot in Orlando, Florida, where Geek Squad precincts were located in 10 Office Depot locations.

In October 2006, it was reported that Geek Squad would be launching in the United Kingdom in a joint 50-50 venture with Carphone Warehouse, where today it exists as both an onsite service and a remote repair service.

Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy's collaboration company, Best Buy Europe, that also own Phone House, ha ; s since also begun launching Geek Squad in Phone House stores.

In 2007, Geek Squad officially added Magnolia Home Theater installation teams as well as Best Buy Mobile Installers to the Geek Squad brand.

This change removed all " Magnolia Home Theater Installation " branding and was replaced by " Geek Squad Installation Units " instead.

This has now allowed Geek Squad to incorporate home theater installation as one of the in home services offered via telephone.

Geek Squad employees are known as Agents and are assigned titles similar to those used by intelligence agencies – Counter Intelligence Agent ( CIA ), Deputy of Counter Intelligence ( DCI ), Double Agent ( DA ), Special Agent ( SA ) and Deputy Field Marshal ( DFM ), to name a few.

Geek Squad Chevrolet Express in Vermont.

Geek Squad Ford E-Series | Ford E-350 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Agents are required to wear a black clip-on tie with the Geek Squad logo pin.

Male agents wear black trousers, white socks and black lace-up shoes with the Geek Squad logo on the sole.

White and black are the only colors allowed in Geek Squad uniforms ; other colors are not allowed.

These agents also have the option of wearing a grey Geek Squad hat and / or black Geeks Squad nylon jacket.

* Home Theater Geeks – 13: Plasma Geek Out ( audio podcast )

If the Geek gives a wrong answer, the contestant wins the challenge, scores points, and gets to wear the Geek's medal for the rest of the game.

Maria Schneider ( born August 18, 1968 ) is an American humorist, cartoonist and illustrator best known for her work with the satirical online newspaper The Onion and her comic strip Pathetic Geek Stories.

Since the birth of her son, Lien has retired from acting and voiceover work ; however, she was credited as executive producer on her husband's comedy film entitled Geek Mythology ( 2008 ).

Wil Wheaton, who briefly moved to Topeka to work for NewTek, called Montgomery " the soul of NewTek and the soul of Play " in his book Just a Geek.

In addition to his work with the Trolls, in 2004 Borg hosted " The Geek Show ," a thirteen episode TV series highlighting " the funniest gags, animation, and games of the Internet.

Lynne has appeared on the Oracle E-Business Network and was presented with their Geek of the Week award for her years of work in high-speed networking and operating systems design.

Zedd has directed several super-low-budget movies, including the feature length They Eat Scum and Geek Maggot Bingo, as well as numerous short films.

* Chez Geek, a card-game parody of Geek culture with many spinoffs and expansions:

* Interview with Aragonés on the Comic Geek Speak podcast ( January 2008 )

During an interview with Music Geek Media in May 2009, Debbi Peterson indicated that the album was in the early stages of production.

Farm, PrankStars, Jessie and Austin & Ally ) were also added to the lineup in 2011, along with six Disney Channel Original Movies ( The Suite Life Movie, Lemonade Mouth, Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure, Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension, Geek Charming and Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas !).

" On December 12, 2008, he returned to his role as Geek in Review editor, with his editorials being published every second Wednesday of the month.

The next line starts with the letter ( for Geek ) followed by the Geek's occupation ( s ): for a geek of music, then the geek code proper begins.

The Macworld Podcast began life on April 26, 2005 as the " Geek Factor Podcast ," but was upgraded into the official " Macworld Podcast " with its fifth installment, in August 2005.

* The World's Most Dangerous Geek ( Rolling Stone interview with Justin Frankel )

Blassie came up with his famous " pencil-neck geek " catchphrase early in his career to describe a fellow carnival performer known as " The Geek ", who bit the heads off chickens and snakes.

Some t-shirt designs include stick figure with detached buttocks, with " LMAO " as the caption, a ROFLCOPTER ( an ASCII drawing of a helicopter made of internet slang ), the Intel Pentium Processor logo replacing " Intel " with " Geek ", and a pixellated 1up Mushroom from the Super Mario Brothers games series.

** " The Geek " ( by Gordon Rennie, with pencils by Paul Marshall and inks by Lee Townsend, in Judge Dredd Megazine # 3. 69, 2000 )

The story has many parallels with Geek Love, having drawn heavy inspiration from Dunn's book.

Colloquially known as " Geek Week ", COMDEX evolved into a major technical convention, with the industry making major product announcements and releases there.

In an interview with Den of Geek, Nolan talked about living in Spain and becoming an artist.

He is also a member of the Sleek Geek Week tour along with Karl Kruszelnicki, as well as performing his own stand up comedy at events around the country.

He has other family member interviewers who show the same behavior, such as " Lyndon " ( which plays off wacky political figure Lyndon LaRouche ), " Geek ", " Giddy ", " Gip ," " Goon ", " Gawp ", and " Gawk ", along with females named " Gay ", " Grandma ", " Gab ", " Gin ", " Gidget ", and " Gal ".

He often helps with other science and education Triple J promotions, such as the Sleek Geek Week roadshow with Adam Spencer and Caroline Pegram.

Two reviews from Anime News Network have ranked it as a C, it received a C + review from MangaCast, a Den of Geek review gave it 3 / 5 stars, and an IGN review concluded it was " no better or worse many other shōnen titles " with " not much to separate it from the massive stock of shōnen series that are similar to it ".

** " The Geek " ( with pencils by Paul Marshall and inks by Lee Townsend, in Judge Dredd Megazine # 3. 69, 2000 )