Thanks JAWs.
Posted on 09/23/2012 4:53:44 PM PDT by JAWs
You’re a new nerd in town. You want to roll some dice, cast some spells, kill some orcs. Or you want to leverage your fandom for good, not evil, in the so-called “real world,” whatever that is.
Let it be known, verily and forsooth, that Our Fair City and its environs is a kingdom replete with every variety of nerdery known to man, woman, halfling, and beast. Boston is the undisputed center of the nerdverse — a mothership for dweebs, techies, trekkers, weirdos, and gamers.
“Our mainstream is geeky,” said Kevin Harrington, who runs an annual comedy festival called Geek Week. Because most audiences in Boston understand obscure pop culture references like “natural 20” (a Dungeons & Dragons reference) or “these aren’t the droids you’re looking for” (from “Star Wars”), he can “inject geek” into his shows.
The number of area colleges and universities, the many centers for research and technology, and their annual influx of new blood doesn’t hurt.
“Boston geeks are today’s Boston Brahmins,” said Tim Loew, executive director of MassDiGI, a center that supports video game development in the Commonwealth. “We are a brains and innovation city and geeks rule the brains and innovation world.”
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Go Boston....a geek place could be Fun!
It’s a great place to go if you like to see Revolutionary War stuff (when the sign sez, “through these doors the Revolutionaries left the meeting to go to the Boston Tea Party”, it means, these are the very doors), or if you like to be jostled. It’s a great jostling town.
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