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Nerd Fun and Tea 101

Wednesday, 27 May 2009 15:17

as posted on Nerdabout.com

 

Nerd Fun and Tea 101

May 26, 2009

Back in March, Boston blogger-at-large Heather showed us all that was happening in the Beantown nerd scene. Now she's back with a report on enjoying a cuppa in the land of the Boston Tea Party.

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By Heather Classen

Since the last time I checked in with Nerdabout my meetup group, Nerd Fun Boston, has been nerding all about Beantown. The Cambridge Science Festival brought us countless events, Galileo's 400th anniversary brought us more, and there's the regular local events like Maple Sugaring, WGBH talks, the Museum of Science, and all that MIT and Harvard have to offer the community. All quintessential nerd fun.

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Nerdabout Story

Monday, 02 March 2009 12:19

from the Nerdabout website:

Boston Nerds Sound Off!

March 02, 2009

Heather Classen recently wrote us about the geek scene in Boston, and we agreed that the world needed to hear more. So voila! Please welcome our Boston Correspondent Heather Classen.

What's going on in your city? Write us here and be featured on our site.

Hearing about NerdAbout via a Facebook link, I saw that Nerdabout covers Austin TX, Portland OR, and NYC ... no Boston. what up? Boston is the central nerd hatchery as far as I'm concerned... the nerd "Hub", if you will. You can't close your eyes and toss your iPhone without hitting another adventurous knowledge loving brainiac... and here's how I know.

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"Crap, I Got Governor"

Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:30
Here's the basic problem with politics: anyone that actually wants to be a politician is exactly the kind of person you do not want in charge ... of anything. Simply put, wanting to be a politician should disqualify you from being one.
From both sides of the fence, liberals and conservatives, who would want to go through all the baloney a person has to go through to get themselves elected? Clearly a person would have to be mental ... or a narcissist, as evident in 95% of our political offices.
So here's my solution: we get people for political office the same way we get people for jury duty.
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My Communist Summer

Sunday, 16 April 2006 23:01

This piece was a finalist in The 2006 Travel Writing Contest at gather.com.

 

I waited on the Vienna-Bratislava train as it crossed the border. I sat alone in a seating compartment meant for six, the train itself was quiet. I started this eastward journey in Geneva, Switzerland, watching out the window as my train rolled toward Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, the neat industrially-groomed farmland of the West turned into the old fashioned hay bales of the Eastern Bloc. Clean sharp bright cities turn into cities covered in coal soot that smelled like burnt carbon. Perhaps it was my imagination, but the air and sky turned gloomy.

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