Do we have wormsign?
At the 2009 Radio and TV Correspondents Dinner, John Hodgman spoke on the age-old war between jocks and nerds.
He poses the questions: Is Barack Obama truly nerdcore, or just pretending? Are those prosthetic ears?
Obama responds with the Vulcan salute.
It warms my vestigial heart to hear Dune jokes. And for the poor illiterates among us, the answers are Shai Hulud, thumper, and the water of life.
Hodgman proceeds to ask: Is Barack Obama the Kwisatz Haderach?
Can he be in many places at once? Can he see all possible futures?
We’ll be watching.
Thanks to Fenring for the alert. I was just having a discussion via text with Andy on my personal campaign to turn chosen targets into geeks. ‘When the two wealthiest people are genuine geeks and the ‘leader of the free world’ has geeky ears and swats flies on camera, you know geekiness has set in for sure,’ he said. ‘It’s going mainstream.’
Andy, Andy, Andy, you are obviously not a geek. You have not been through the wars with us. You have always been friends with the jocks, you are one of the popular people. The true geeks know that we may be ascendant today because the world needs us, and it may even be fashionable to be a geek for now hence the bizarre sight of the ‘cool people’ adopting our manners, but a time will come when people will turn against us. It has happened throughout history and it will happen again. For now we enjoy public acceptance and even admiration, but we know how things turn out. We live in the future.
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June 22nd, 2009 at 02:18
Which somewhat makes me think…what would possibly happen if there was an anime adaptation of Frank Herbert’s core Dune sextet??? (I don’t consider the prequels/sequels written by his son and a collaborator as canon)
June 22nd, 2009 at 02:20
…continuing with that, there was an episode of the Cartoon Network series “The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy” where the Mandy of the far future becomes something like Leto II…half-human, half-worm
July 6th, 2009 at 17:22
they have it wrong… Barack Obama is not the Kwisatz Haderach, but Michelle Obama will disobey the order of her superiors and give birth to a son… you know how it goes