These are odd times for various nerds and geeks. Today, Gary Gygax passed away. Gygax brought all sorts of nerds and geeks together in the mid to late 1970s with Dungeons and Dragons. You have to be smart to play D&D because the game requires at least two or three books just to get started. The original game also required graph paper and a really good imagination. Gygax is as well known to gaming nerds as William F. Buckley is to conservative intellectual nerds.
I knew some nerds who played D&D in their early teens that transitioned into following Buckley's intellectual brand of conservative politics in their late teens and early twenties. Strangely enough, without weaving our way through Gygax's imaginary worlds, I am not sure our brains would have been developed enough to figure out what the heck Buckley was trying to tell us. Without Buckley, I feel sure that more intellectual nerds would have outright rejected Ronald Reagan which would have left Reagan's history solely in the hands of liberal historians. Left in the hands the liberals, we would all probably still be apologizing for being Ugly Americans. Gygax and Buckley will both be missed.
Brett Favre will also be missed in the NFL next season. Favre has become such an icon that he has quite a following of his own brand of geeks. I think they call themselves cheeseheads.
With so many bummed out geeks, we sure needed something positive to start to balance things out. Fortunately, Trekkies everywhere have something to cheer up geek nation. The most famous and best looking Borg: Seven-of-Nine, aka Jeri Ryan to non-Star Trek fans, just gave birth to a baby girl. I am sure some Trek fans, who long ago lost the ability to distinguish Star Trek from reality, wondered if Borgs or former Borgs were capable of having children. I am certain that many would have lined up to try and assist Seven-of-Nine in that final frontier.
