It made the once-scrappy upstart and weirdo the most powerful company in the tech world.

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"I wanted to act like a weirdo, and I'm a weirdo, " he says of his yesteryears.

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What has to be the most significant date for any weirdo - the millennium - is likely to provide some good material.

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They take easily to such characters as Jaws, Reggae and Weirdo.

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Graves, a regular customer at the studio, tried to brush off the incident by calling the woman "a weirdo" before walking out and throwing away the camcorder.

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Still, I thought Skylar got into a comfortable groove once the chorus kicked in, and she somehow managed to caress that keytar player's back for like 10 seconds without coming off as a weirdo.

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