How did I miss this spectacular display of geekery in September from the POTUS?
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That Obama decided he wanted to fence against Olympic fencer Tim Morehouse would've been enough to endear him to me -- because I love the sport. But that he did it with a toy lightsaber cements his place in my heart as a fellow member of the Geek Tribe.
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In other news, the annual fall busy season at Saltmine U. continues apace. Things should ease up around Thanksgiving, which will give me a chance to breathe. (Which I'm not doing particularly well at today -- turns out that if you mess up the proportions of yew and wormwood in incense, it aggravates your lungs something fierce. Go me.)
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This weekend, almost all my media devices went on strike. Xbox 360 gave me the Red Ring of Death; my DVD player has decided to suddenly stop playing back discs; and my old iPod will not mount, play back music, or turn on. I suspect some strange electronic conspiracy. I'm hoping a new AV cable for the Xbox will fix the problem, but we'll see.
Maybe our Nerd-in-Chief will hold Microsoft down and force them to make hardware that isn't a bunch of junk.
I can hope, right?