Despite its disturbingly Christian iconography, we like PAX East, the massive video game that we visited twice. But in every bushel of apples, you'll find a few bad ones, and that goes double when that bushel is made up of nerds instead of apples. Being a good nerd means being friendly and contented with your socially outcast lot. Being a bad nerd means stealing video game code.
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As one attendee put it, nerd is in the air. Last weekend may have brought us Vericon, but this weekend the nerdiness heats up at PAX East! As we said before, if you know what it is, you're probably going; if you don't know, you probably don't care. And it's sold out now, anyway, so you won't be able to go. Alas.
MIT's dirty student newspaper , which gave out sex toys scant weeks ago, just released the results of its campuswide sex survey, and let's just say that if you need a virgin to sacrifice during your satanic ritual, Memorial Drive wouldn't be a bad place to cruise.
Say, do you want to go to PAX East? Do you even know what PAX East is? If yes, you probably want to go; if no, you probably don't. For the PAXers, there are just days left to get a discount early-bird registration to the event ($45 for three days: not bad!). For the non-PAXers, brace for a nerd influx at the end of March.
Ah, xkcd. It's adept pointing out the geekiness of geeks, and the uselessness of both business and academia. A few months back, xkcd published a book, to the delight of those who choose sedately consuming over anything else, and perhaps to the delight of others as well.
So March * 3 = (200)9, making today a Square Root Day (both the number of the month and the day are the square root of the last two digits of the year). We just won't know this sort of happiness again until April 4, 2016, unless you count Pi Day, which is coming up on March 14. March is just filled with math goodness! According to the Facebook group and Wikipedia, "One suggested way of celebrating the holiday is by eating square radishes, or other root vegetables cut into shapes with square cross sections." Enjoy that.
In a city packed with top colleges and brilliant thinkers, the word "nerd" is bound to strike a nerve. "Nerd" and "Geek" are commonly considered insults, but many Bostonians have shrugged off the label and are either enjoying success or are on their way to success in scholarly pursuits. So-called nerds live here in a fairly safe haven.
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