Dan will be talking about networks & transactions in the next installment of the Nerd Nite series in Boston. 9pm, Saturday May 3, at the Midway Cafe. The 8pm talk is about Old Testament justice and sounds awesome. (With apologies to: The Secret Life of Machines.)

Complete invite:

Hey Nerdnite-ers:

The next Nerdnite will be Saturday May 3 at the Midway.
3496 Washington St. in Jamica Plain, Boston.
Doors open at 7...talks begin at 8. Here's the lineup:

8pm:  Alyson Dame: Payback's a Bitch
Before turn the other cheek, there was eye for an eye.  In the Hebrew
Scriptures (formally and sometimes still known as the Old Testament),
justice churned in your stomach and smarted your loins.  Heads rolled,
bodies burned and foreskins fell. In this talk, Harvard Divinity
School student Alyson Dame recaps the goriest highlights of revenge
from her favorite testament.  Prepare to meet thy God!!

9pm: Dan Michaelson, "A Secret Life of Machines."
Dan is at the forefront of bringing nerdiness to the normally hip
world of art and design.  He teaches the Networks & Transactions
course in the graduate graphic design program at Yale University's
School of Art, where he's been on the faculty the past three years.
He is also a half of the graphic design partnership Linked by Air.
Since Dan comes at the technology stuff from an artistic perspective,
I'm guessing this will be a less-than-completely-literal look at his
topic, which he describes as follows:

"A secret life of machines: What goes on when you request a web page":
When you type an address into your web browser, a series of invisible
requests and responses ping across the internet, so that your page can
be constructed and presented to you. Much of this hidden conversation
between machines takes place in English even though you never see or
hear it. In this talk we'll request a web page and then we'll listen
in to the network as machines build it for us step by step.

10pm: Music!  Featuring the CD release party for Conservative Man.

See you May 3,

nerdnite

be there and be square

saturday, May 3
the midway cafe
3496 washington st., jamaica plain, boston
www.midwaycafe.com
www.nerdnite.com