Who Said Geeks Can’t Dance?

You will have to excuse this moment of vapidity, but the moment was just too great not to comment on.  I don’t normally watch the cultural black hole that is Dancing With the Stars, but when I heard that Steve Wozniak, AKA The Woz was going to be on, I had to tune in to watch that.

For those of you who don’t know who The Woz is, he is co-founder of Apple computers with Steve Jobs, hacker extraordinaire, computer genius, creator and inventor of the Apple II, and multi billionaire.  With all that on his resume, you’d sort of expect him to be the kind of individual who has zero personality, but I found the opposite to be true, he giggled like a schoolgirl and grinned like a Cheshire cat throughout his entire performance, with a few off colour jokes to thrown in for good measure.  Unfortunately his dancing wasn’t as good as his stage presence, causing one judge to remark “It was like watching a Teletubby going mad in a gay pride parade”.  Ouch.

I can’t say that I’ll be a loyal viewer of this show in the future, but if I’m aimlessly flipping channels on a Monday evening with nothing better to watch, I may tune in for a while, or at least until The Woz gets voted out.  At least he won’t need to worry about finding a new job if his dancing career doesn’t take off.

Check out the magic yourself!  Watch the clip, the real dancing starts at around 1:45.