Ping Fu's globetrotting and hobnobbing continues.

In January, the CEO of Geomagic visited the Obamas at the White House and attended the President's State of the Union. Last month, she attended a tech conference in Lake Tahoe, where CNBC named Geomagic one of four tech companies to watch. This week, she hung out with late-night icon Jay Leno at his "Big Dog Garage" in Southern California.

Leno and NBC invited Fu and officials from several other tech companies to the garage, which holds his huge car collection. He's repairing a 1920s Dusenberg and wanted to show how technology can be used to fix classic cars, Fu said.

The latest issue of Time magazine has a cover story by TV critic James Poniewozik in which Poniewozik asserts that Jay Leno is the future of television.

He may very well be right, but God help us. Or God help me, at least. 

Ever since NBC announced that Leno would be taking his bland late night antics into primetime five nights a week, I've been stewing over the subsequent loss of 5 weekly hours of scripted dramas. To make room, NBC has already had to send two of their "Law & Order" shows to earlier timeslots (will the decidedly adult themes of the . . .