If you live in Salt Lake then you have nothing better to do this weekend, don’t lie and pretend you do, we know you don’t. SLC Nerd 2013 is only 3 days away, 3 days until a cacophony of dweeb to educate your youngsters and tickle your nerd.
We here at Big Shiny Robot will be manning our booth full of swag for you to purchase, games for you to play, and of course bots for you to meet. You can finally come get friendly and social with your local robots who generally hide behind anything we can to avoid human contact. Our booth will feature a FREE Street Fighter 4 tournament, legendary prizes being awarded. You can register for that HERE.
If hanging out with us all day just isn’t enough for you after you buy a shot glass and some pins you can head out to the different panels and speeches that the lovely organizers have in store for you.
The Vox Nerd:
The VoxNerd is a series of 10 to 15 minute presentations by certified SLC Nerds about the things that they are most passionate about. They range in type from serious to funny and on to the business that is being a geek.
The line-up of talks, which will be presented in the Grand Room at the Complex on April 20th during SLC Nerd 2013 are:
■Undead Rights: The Fall of America by Craig Nybo
■H.E.R.O.I.C. Inc – The Fun Stuff by Heidi Mason and Dan Stephensen
■The Secret History of Table Top Gaming by Nathan Cunningham
■Live Action Roleplay: When One World Just Isn’t Enough by Jessica Zarnofsky of Living Adventures
■Getting Darker with the Black Monday Society by David Montgomery
■Random Thoughts From An Environmental Scarecrow by Brady Canfield
■The Geek’s Guide to Raising Geeky Children (not to be confused with normal children, normal parents, or anything normal) by Jaleta Clegg
■Tolkein vs Jackson: Why one Author thinks Movies are Better Than Books by James Wymore
■Cosplay On A Shoestring by Eric Allan Hall
■A Postmodern Tour of New York by Patrick Murphy
■The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited by Eric Swedin
■Becoming A Dragonslayer (Good Career Move or The Dumbest Thing You’ve Ever Done?) by Paul Genesse
■How To Make and Manage a Golem (without Destroying Your Life) by Brooks Lyn Briggs
■Comics As A Digital Industry by Benjamin Bailey
■Imperial Espionage in the Context of the Galactic Civil War (Many Bothans died to bring us this presentation…) by Bryan Young
■Why We Love Zombies (or the Apocalypse is the best thing to ever happen) by Ted Raimi
Artist’s Alley
It won’t be so much an alley with artists as it will be a room full of artists hanging out and sharing their work while appreciating the work of others. Come join in with the gang.
Jess Smart Smiley
Tyler Kirkham
Brian Young
Paul Genesse
Heather Ackley
Heidi Evans
Fear Factory
Gary Bratner
Ryan Hudson
Chris Miller
Megan Mitchell
Wendy LeMaster
Jonathon Baker
Quinn Johnson
Steven Crowe
Westercon 67
Christopher Stuart
Tasha Hickman
Tracy Hickman
Curiosity Quills Press
Buxom Bitch Horns
Baby Ghosts
UROC – The Utah High Powered Rocketry Club
Wussy Wear
Wandering Wizards
And more!
The moral of the story is you need to be at the Complex in SLC this weekend from 9 am on. It will be a phenomenal day with yours truly, and anyone who’s nerdy… I mean anyone, will be there.