Nerd Nite SF #21: King Tides, Legos, and More!

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King tides foretelling global warming's global flooding! Grown-up Lego enthusiasts and the bricks they love! One other presentation to be announced! All these lectures and the pleasures of drink, music, and nerd fellowship await you at this month's Nerd Nite SF. Be there and be square!

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"Strange Waters: King Tides + Sea Level Rise, Rollin' up to a Coast Near You" by Taylor Nairn

Let's set aside for a moment whether one "believes" in dinosaurs, yetis, 2Pac still recording music - or climate change. The photographs speak for themselves. The California King Tide Initiative will showcase pics from you - yes, you provided the evidence! - of seasonal king tides (which are higher-than-normal high tides) to demonstrate what rising sea levels could look like along our coast. From Sutro Baths to Jack London Square, the Embarcadero to Sausalito, Taylor Nairn will discuss the community-based initiative to visualize the impact of rising waters, and win hearts and minds in the process.

Taylor Nairn works for the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. She calls her project partners The Sea Level Rise Sisters, which was cute only once.

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"LEGO® and Grown-Ups: Instructions Not Included" by Brendan Mauro

Remember raking through piles of bricks, searching for the precisely sized piece of injection-molded plastic to finish your masterpiece? The telltale rattle of a new set wrapped and under the Christmas tree? The click and snap and smooth perfection of two bits fitting together? For the subculture of grown-up Lego enthusiasts, these pleasures aren't just nostalgia. Brendan Mauro presents an insider's view on the quirks, talents, and habits of the adult Lego community, what it's like being the guy in the Lego store who's outlived the recommended ages on all the boxes, and what makes the brick - still considered a children's toy by most - so compelling as a hobby and artistic medium.

Brendan is lead artist at an independent game developer in San Francisco. He started playing with Lego bricks when he was five and never really stopped.

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Our third speaker had to cancel, so so there's one more speaker to be announced!


Plus: DJ Alpha Bravo selects vinyl cuts to illuminate our presenters' themes. Alpha Bravo is VP of left-field pop label, Radio Khartoum, and was one of the forces behind legendary SF pop-club nights, Anisette and Schokolade.

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