#NerdNite

[evienchantress]

Hey all, DRINKING & DRAGONS IS BACK!! Come join us on June 4th at the Brewyard Beer Co. for fun battles and good brews!

If you're a seasoned player or a newbie to D&D, ALL ARE WELCOME to join in and have fun with me as the DM🙌 and your fellow players as we go through an exciting adventure. It's going to be a blast, so come on down!

Tickets and more details are available in the NerdNite website and in their bio on Instagram!

Hope to see you there, ADVENTURERS💪⚔️🍻!

[hexjulia]

kind of enjoy that you can read this url as my just really really hating someone called julia and going so far as to encourage others to bewitch her.

[hawaiicalendar]

Monday, April 4 at Anna O'Brien's: Nerd Nite! Caffeine Dependency in Graduate Researchers, Real Monsters, and The Pacific Crest Trail and the Fun Scale. 

[nicksayers]

I’m nerdy for interactive art, allegedly. Thanks to Brighton #NerdNite for inviting me back for their alumni party at @EagleLabs the other night. Great food, drink... and 3D printers! (at Eagle Labs Brighton)

[knowyourchicken]

Last year I gave a talk about the glorious strangeness of David Lynch’s Dune at Nerd Nite NYC that was filmed at Littlefield in Brooklyn. You can watch it above, and yes, #DunePugForever.

[waywardkindredanthology]

Last night was Nerd Nite at the Tranzac Club in beautiful Toronto, wherein lead editor @allisonmotoole spoke about that most Frankensteinian of books... Frankenstein. The love is real and it runs deep. Happy 200th birthday to a novel that changed the world! . . . #frankenstein #tranzac #nerdnite #fangasm

[preytaxidermy]

Tonight! Come see me talk about the Victorian obsession with taxidermy tonight at Nerd Nite. You’ll even get the inside scoop on an upcoming 1851 recreation I’m working on! Tonight at Busby’s East - tickets at La.NerdNite.com.

[latinotoons]

Latino Toons Nerd Nite Talk

What we do at Latino Toons: talk by NAVA for Nerd Nite ATX!

4:00 #EduardoVillacis

5:00 @galamot #pixeldeath #mictlan #pixelart 14:00 #RaynnerGil

15:30 #Eyejack,  @yalakid @sutueatsflies

18:00 #Ducci 

22:30 @mrglaubitz 

24:30 #trumptoons

25:00 #villaridesagain #badhombre

THANK YOU AUSTIN, AND THANK YOU @nerdniteatx!

[nimbusesarenaughty]

#jackboxtv at #microsoftnyc #gamingevent #nyc #trivia #freeevent #gaming #gamingteam #gamer #nerdnite #casualgaming #liveevents #murdertriviaparty #stream #twitch #supportsmallstreamers #supportlocals (at Microsoft Store NYC Flagship)

[yourbiggestfangirl]

Every night is ”Nerd Nite” if you ask us, but for more opportunities to nerd out in your community, Kristen’s blog gives you all the tips on how to fangirl locally! Link in bio to read! #nerdnite #unc #uncchapelhill #chapelhill #tbt #nerdingout #yourbiggestfangirlblog #ybfgblog #yourbiggestfangirl #yourbiggestfangirlpodcast #ybfgpodcast #ybfg #fandom #fangirl #podcast (at Chapel Hill, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpXdf6bBGbj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1us2cqe138s7x

[cyberdoc84]

Yards Atmosbeeric on tap while waiting for #NerdNite to start... Yes, I am that #nerdy #ilovephilly #citylife #fishtown_philly (at Frankford Hall)

[evienchantress]

Super excited to announce that I'll be DMing this next installment of Drinking & Dragons for @nerdnitela!! Come and join us for magic and mayhem (and me doing a ton of silly voices😆😉👍)!

[abmann]

Head like a kite in a thunderstorm

“Make sure you’re not made ‘Emperor,’ avoid that imperial stain. It can happen to you, so keep yourself simple, good, pure, saintly, plain, a friend of justice, god- fearing, gracious, affectionate, and strong for your proper work.” - Marcus Aurelius

What do you do when you succeed at something? Does it get to your head of do put your head down and get back to work? I recently presented about this Virtue Project at Nerd Nite Madison and it went really well. I typically have a low opinion and high expectation for public speaking and I feel like I absolutely nailed it despite spending the hours leading up to it feeling woefully, terribly, very obviously underprepared. But the stars aligned and I had the audience rapt - no one went to the bar to get a drink, it got quiet and intense, I got strong applause at the end. Magic. Head high in the clouds like a kite in a thunderstorm. I was feeling pretty powerful and awesome. So I started working on this piece, a piece to discuss how humility keeps us hungry.
 Hubris, conceit, pride are all the perverting of humility by great success that leads us down the path of self-destruction1. That may a little dramatic2. The moment that we let success stand between us and understanding the world, we calcify. Hardened to the outside world, we lose our curiosity, we lose focus, we lose sight of what it is *to be a person*. Curiosity of our environment is what brought us out of the trees, out of the savannah, out of darkness, and into the modern world3. Epictetus, one of the best known stoic philosophers, said it like this,

“It is impossible for a person to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

The best remedy to pride is approaching the world with humility, with the understanding that you only know what you know, not everything. As I started writing the talk, I pulled out so many things. All the great things. I went back to the book that started all this for me - Walter Isaacson’s biography of Ben Franklin - I went back to the most *comprehensive* biography by Leo Lemay and even reread from the collected works of Franklin published online at FranklinPapers.org. It was as if I was a neophyte. It reminded me that there are others who have studied longer and harder than I who knew more, will likely always know more. And it puts into perspective the way of understanding and knowledge. No person can ever, should ever, believe they are the sole bearer of knowledge and truth. There are always others to whom we can aspire. So, I spoke well and I knew my topic. And I *got there* despite having been reading and researching and practicing Franklin and his virtue project for *years* by approaching it like I had no idea what I was doing and that I was going to fail. Here’s an exercise for then next time you have a thing you’re working on you feel you know well. And,likely, is a good set of precepts for Humility if you have a knowledge focus in your own Virtues.

Ask yourself these questions:

What *don’t* I know about this topic?

Who out there knows *more* than I do?

How can be more like them and their expertise?

If you otherwise think naught but of your own expertise, all the things you do, know, and understand already, what could you possibly care about outside of that? Footnotes:

(Ominous music). ↩

It is.... ↩

Also, thumbs thumbs aren’t a virtue. ↩

[hawaiicalendar]

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3: The next @NerdNiteHNL event is a @BishopMuseum takeover! Talks include “Ocean Art, Science, and Stewardship” by Ethan Estess, “(Re)Generations: Challenging Racism, Connecting ʻOhana” by Kapalikū Maile, and “Digitization, Databases and Diversity: A Snail Story,” by Dr. Chandra Earl. https://www.hawaiical.com/event/nerd-nite-march-2021/ #nerdnite #nerdnitehnl https://www.instagram.com/p/CLxT7h9jjHR/?igshid=sd55d8tk5vwl

[nicksayers]

Nerding it up at @BrightonNerd last ...nite. It was an honour to talk at @RialtoTheatre with @KatyPetherick, @MahmoudBukar and @Goodsworthy (Partha Das). #nerdnite #nerdnitebrighton #brightonnerd #publictalk (at Rialto Theatre)

[aquanzacadogan]

Had a great time sharing the stage with these gentlemen. Thank you to the Nerd Night Orlando family and everyone who came out to listen. #aquanzacadogan #Repost @nerdniteorlando ・・・ Last night was so much fun. Thank you to our speakers Giovanni, Aquanza, and Professor Josh for 3 great presentations. We hope everyone learned something new, met someone cool, and had a good enough time to join us again next month on Sept. 14th for Nerd Nite. #nerdnite #nerdniteorlando (at The Geek Easy)