Angels and Kings
05 June 2008, 1900
Nerdnite = geeks, Power Point and beer
Nerds unite! And they unite en masse! Angels and Kings was absolutely packed with people seeking knowledge and a good buzz. Nerdnite was started up in Boston in 2003 by a guy who spent a few months every year studying parasitic birds. When he would return from his research trips and go to his local pub, he would have to tell his friends where he had been and what he had been doing. The bartenders got so sick of hearing the story over and over again, they told him that he should just arrange a night when all of his friends got together so that he could present his travels and research to them at one time. And thus, Nerdnite was born.
Tonight Mike Love presented, "Home Is Where Your Pig Is and Other Ancient Chinese Secrets." The presentation was great! Mike went through the etymology of written Chinese and ended with a rowdy section on why it is a bad idea to get a Chinese character tattoo (complete with an example of a young Canadian chap who got a tattoo which he thought meant "love, honor, cherish" but actually meant "this boy looks ugly in the dark" and another poor soul who had "eunuch" unknowingly inked on his arm).
There was a second presentation titled, "Some Like It Hop(py)"
by Adam Kavalier about the health benefits of hops, the main ingredient in beer which gives it its flavor and bite. I didn't stay for that one though because Angels and Kings had become so filled with geeks at that point that there was nowhere left to stand comfortably!
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