Yet another strange Bay Area subculture, one that unites the area's computer culture and the mushroom geeks, was also out in force.
Comic book geeks were also excited by the first trailer for Deadpool, the violent and racy new comic-book adaptation starring Ryan Reynolds as a foul-mouthed, wisecracking masked mercenary.
Black female geeks are also being celebrated on screen: the film Hidden Figures – about the African American mathematicians who played a vital role in the space race – was one of the biggest films at the box office in 2016.
This being Silicon Valley, the sexually inexperienced geek is also a big target market for both straight and gay providers.
How many uber-geeks were also elite athletes, hmm?
Worldwide more than 150m Android devices have been activated, a number that is growing by more than half a million every day.Yet the Android "ecosystem", as geeks call it, is also facing growing challenges.
Try Buzznet, Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Glogster, and anything related to whatever it is you're promoting, such as blogging, moms, geeks, greenies, etc. is also a good new one.
"For the Brick, we tend to get a lot of the same audience all the time, big theater geeks," said Ms. Arber, who is also a writer and actress.
It might be the biggest geek-magnet around, but Lost is also as risky and radical a TV programme as there's ever been: one that provides no answers week after week, has no qualms about killing off major characters, takes huge liberties with narrative convention, and deals with spiritual and even political questions of our age, including fame, leadership and even the Iraq war.
