Sunday, 4 March 2012

Obama to boldly go where no geek has gone before

Get ready for the geek-in-chief.

President-elect Barack Obama used to collect comic books, can't part with his BlackBerry, and once flashed Leonard "Mr. Spock" Nimoy the Vulcan "Live Long and Prosper" sign.

That and other evidence has convinced some of Obama's nerdier fans that he'll be the first American president to show distinct signs of geekiness. And that's got them as excited as a Tribble around a Klingon.

If that last reference from Star Trek didn't make sense, it's because it's the kind of thing best understood by a geek, which in American slang usually refers to someone overly obsessed with intellectuality, science …

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