Saturday, March 6, 2010

03.2010 Langdon St Cafe presents GEEK WEEK 4.0!

Round up the data cowboys! Its time for Geek Week 4.0, the Langdon Street Cafe's week-long tribute to hackers, board gamerz, knob twiddlers, synth pimps, comic book nerds and hardware junkies!

GEEK WEEK 4.0 :: MASTER SCHEDULE
March 24-31, 2010 :: BE THERE AND BE SQUARE

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Wednesday March 24: CLIQUE TO LOAD
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cafe closed from 5:30 - 7.

7pm Opening ceremony
Ms. Pac Man tourney begins, Hacker Challenge, Bananagrams tournament, board game shelf revealed

8pm Matt Lorenz of Rusty Belle presents THE SUITCASE JUNKET
One-man band CD release party

9:30pm The CASIO project: Madmad Bicycle
The most confounding weirdness ever to enter your earness. Lots of little circuit bent Casio synths. Matt Lorenz, Max Adam and Ryan Nestor on knobs and buttons, projections, video distortion.

10:30pm Dance Party! with ERNIE RIVERS AND THE BORN-READYS
Late 50s inspired "Dirty Rock" in the vein of "Hang on Sloopy" LIVE

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Thursday March 25: GEEKS THROUGHOUT THE AGES
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7pm WORKSHOPS
- Modular Origami by Crispy
- Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition by Ben t. Matchstick

9pm DURIANS (electro-freakout)

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Friday March 26: FLASHBACK FLASHDANCE
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6-8 Happy Hour with Information Overload 80s edition
Live Trivia with Jen Dole (prizes!)

10pm the return of SPUTNIK
Featuring Anais Mitchell, Noah Hahn, Sara Grace, Jay Ekis and Ben t. Matchstick (80s dance party)

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Saturday March 27: HACK THE PLANET
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12noon ANARCHIST SOCCER
Montreal Anarchist Soccer collective -- Statehouse Lawn.

2pm Ethical Hackers Workshop with Grep
Cutting edge hacking techniques & countermeasures, including Metasploit, SSLstrip, and the Social Engineering Toolkit (SET). All aboard the Pwnie Express!

4pm WORKSHOPS:

- Hardware Hacking Workshop with N0izMaker: Circuit bending, microcontrollers, & ultrasonic sensors abound.

- Tapeloops with Nick Painter

- Live Mapping with Shane Watt

6pm BUTTERFLY STARPOWER(6 yr. old lead singer)

7pm James KochalkaSuperstar. 8 bit songs created on the GameBoy Advance.

9pm Beware! the Other Head of Science(Albany, NY punk)

11pm MATHEMATICIANS

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Sunday March 28: GAME ON!
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Geek Week Gaming Con.
1pm - 6pm

8pm Rory Raven, mentalist/spoonbender

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Monday March 29: SCHOOL NIGHT
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8pm Miss Wizard Anne Watson presents uber geek John Cohn, chief engineer of IBM

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Tues March 30: Capes and Tights and Slo-Mo Fights!
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Superhero Showdown!

7pm Workshops
- D&D 4th edition

9pm kufui

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Wednesday March 31: ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO QUIT?
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7pm Workshops

8pm VOLTAIC/HARMONIC
local, live electronica w/ host ROBO

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