newVideoPlayer("Encyclopedia_gawker.flv", 475, 376); “Hardly any of this stuff can really help me with my schoolwork,” he says, feet up on a computer desk complete with printer and VHS camcorder. Then the Encyclopaedia Brittanica kid, late 80s/early 90s geek poster boy, explains why books rule and computers drool.

In a moment of extreme nostalgia we grabbed this clip from VH1…also finding it amusing that the actor now uses computers on a daily basis, as he’s a webmaster for a porn site.