Nerd Nite East Bay #16: Movie Explosions, Coffee Roasting, and
Hypervelocity Travel
Now streaming live on the interwebs...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mFLIvDCgnk
Feed is live now, audio/talks will kick in at 8p, updates and such on
twitters https://twitter.com/NerdNiteEB
We plan to experiment with our first live stream this month. The live event
is at:
The New Parkway, 474 24th St, Oakland
(less than half-a-mile from the 19th St BART)
EXPLOSIONS, BACKDRAFTS, AND SPRINKLERS: HOW HOLLYWOOD …
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WRONG by Joel Sipe
Fires and explosions are key elements in most Hollywood blockbusters, yet
they are often absurdly misrepresented, much to the chagrin of fire
scientists (yes, fire scientists are a real thing). The movie Backdraft is
notoriously inaccurate, but finding films with correct portrayals of fires,
explosions, or fire protection systems is surprisingly difficult. Spoiler
alert: car gas tanks don't really explode when you shoot them with a
handgun. Come learn about the real fire science behind some common
Hollywood goofs.
Joel Sipe, Ph.D, is a Senior Engineer at Exponent Failure Analysis Inc.
where he investigates fires, explosions, and thermal issues related to
consumer product fire safety and skin burns. From an early age, Joel had an
obsession with all things having to do with fire. His friends think it's
more than a little suspicious that he always knows where the fire started...
HOME COFFEE ROASTING: ON THE CHEAP WITH TOOLS YOU PROBABLY ALREADY HAVE by
Byron Dote
Learn about where coffee comes from and the stages it goes through before
it ends as a hot beverage. We will show you how simple the roasting process
can be and discuss the different methods used for home roasting. Get up
close and personal with a live demonstration of roasting coffee with an
electric popcorn popper.
Sweet Maria's Coffee is an online information and retail source for home
coffee roasting. We are based out of West Oakland, and enjoy sharing our
passion with Bay Area coffee lovers.
Byron Dote is the marketing guy and merchandise buyer at Sweet Maria's
Coffee. He's been with the company for 3 years. Before that, he worked in
the photo marketing and film production industries. Byron loves living in
Oakland, hanging out with his dogs, listening to good music, eating ice
cream, yelping Mexican restaurants and drinking excellent coffee.
HYPERVELOCITY LAUNCHERS: HOW TO LAUNCH A PROJECTILE AT 10 MILES/SECOND?
(THAT'S RIGHT, PER SECOND) by Vincent Tanguay
>From bows and arrows to rail guns, man has been perfecting tools to launch
projectiles at ever greater speeds for tens of thousands of years.
Launching projectiles at hypervelocity is routine today and these launchers
are very useful for science. While they have enabled major breakthroughs
(think access to space), scientists always need more speed! We'll discuss
what hypervelocity is, its applications, and the various technologies that
make it possible. Of course, we'll talk about their limitations and how to
push the frontier of possibilities. Somehow, we'll manage to include some
explosions in there -- hopefully we get it right!
Vincent Tanguay, Ph.D., has a background in explosives and detonations and
formerly worked as a scientist for a Canadian National Lab. When not busy
blowing stuff up, he was developing an explosive-driven hypervelocity
launcher.
--
ThanX,
;+)
nburl.net/fort <https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Fort>
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https://www.facebook.com/events/213919932142576/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcom…
Saturday, March 1, 2014
7:00pm until 9:00pm
Chance of Rain 61°F / 48°F
Potluck supper, hoe down music, home-grown garden seeds, and the company of fantastic local gardeners! Come learn about seed saving classes and the Library. BASIL is a project of the Ecology Center.
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Location: Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave, near Dwight Way, Berkeley.
Cost: food and seeds to share or $10 …
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Info: 510-548-2220 x233, basil(a)ecologycenter.org, http://www.ecologycenter.org/basil/.
Wheelchair accessible.
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In case you're interested, this event starts tomorrow evening (Friday Feb
21) to Sunday Feb 23.
http://oaklandedu.startupweekend.org/
If you're available to host a table for Sudo Room, or other related
projects, please let me know ASAP. Otherwise, you can use promotional code:
*sudoroom* to register at $15 or register for free if you ask me I guess?
Or just show up and socially engineer the situation?
Startup Weekend Education is coming to
Oakland<http://oaklandedu.startupweekend.org/>.…
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Have an idea for improving education? This is the place to meet a team that
will help validate your idea and bring it to prototype over the course of
54 hours. Great opportunity to meet passionate folks from around Oakland
and you'll feel better on Mondaymorning knowing that you didn't binge watch
a TV series.
Video: What is Startup Weekend Education? <http://youtu.be/jjgg63cGRLY>
*Sudo Room Developers/Designers Attend For $15 With Promo Code: sudoroom*
*Register Before It's Sold Out <http://oaklandedu.startupweekend.org/>!*
Great reasons to attend:
- SXSWedu <http://sxswedu.com/> badges for the winning team
- Special challenge from Oakland Teachers <http://youtu.be/kdXDCBp7cF8>
- Meet outstanding education and edtech leaders in the Bay Area (see
website<http://oaklandedu.startupweekend.org/> for
listing)
- Free courses by Dev Bootcamp <http://devbootcamp.com/> and General
Assembly
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Hey y'all,
The surveillance awareness event tonight at Sudo Room at 7pm will be
livestreamed in case you can't make it.
The url to watch the live stream will be pasted into the event listing at
Sudo room as soon as it comes online - here is the (twitterable) shortlink
to the calendar event listing:
http://bit.ly/1n73dGS
Thanks & hope ta see ya there!
David