IT’S OUR ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY, ALLAMARAINE!!
August 8th, 2024 doors 6pm, show 7pm at River Arts District Brewing Co.
Pre-sale tickets $10, door $15 (cash preferred, Venmo etc. available). Get your pre-sale tickets here: https://events.humanitix.com/nerd-nite-asheville-august
Meet your presenters for August’s Nerd Nite:
Jared Rennie
Communicating Extreme Heat in Asheville
Even though Asheville is in the mountains of North Carolina, we still experience extreme heat in the summertime. It might not get as hot as Charlotte or Atlanta, but it gets warm enough to cause problems, especially for our underserved communities. Come and learn about the latest research on heat and what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is (or isn’t) doing when talking about heat in Western North Carolina.
Jared Rennie (he/him) is a research meteorologist for NOAA who sits on a treasure trove of data. Originally from Boston, he moved to Asheville in 2010 to perform climate research, primarily focusing on heat waves. Recently, he has shifted efforts towards science communication, bridging the gap between climate extremes and vulnerable communities. Threads: @jjrenniewx. BlueSky/Twitter: @jjrennie
Lee Johnson
It’s About Vacuum Tubes!
This tubular presentation will give an introduction to vacuum tubes and their pivotal role in launching the electronic age of radios, televisions, and computers. The presentation will cover how these remarkable devices work, their various applications, and the ways they revolutionized communication and entertainment. Samples of different types of vacuum tubes will be passed around, allowing participants to see and touch these historic components firsthand. And some eager participants will even have the chance to take home a vacuum tube as a souvenir!
Professor Johnson is retired from IBM (20 years) and retired from teaching at A-B Tech and UNCA (20+ years) teaching computer science. He is an officer in the Asheville Radio Museum (https://www.avlradiomuseum.org/) and is active in ham radio there. Lee loves photography using film cameras and practices Zen regularly.
Colonel Panic
Malwars
While Microsoft rules enterprise computing, linux runs the Internet. The nature of the internet and the connectivity it offers provides a large attack surface for malicious actors. In this presentation we explore what real malware looks like in the wild and the motivations behind the threat actors that disseminate it.
Colonel Panic is a hacker, musician, malware researcher, and a robotics and iot developer working as a lead threat researcher in the cybersecurity industry. His interests are transhumanism, futurism, biohacking, ai, tech, malware, philosplophy, physics, sci-fi mythology, music, art, and the ineffable spirit of the hacker mindset.
With your host, Von
Von’s Star Trek mini feature:
Celebrating Nerd Nite Asheville’s One Year Anniversary
What do cartoon voices, superpowers, beer, cryptids, Moana, telescope lenses and genital piercings have in common? Nerd Nite Asheville! Take a look back on our wild first year as we celebrate our anniversary.
Von (they/them) is a local performer known for their radioactive style, political commentary, and inability to shut up about Star Trek. A lifelong nerd of both science and theater, they were an avid lover of Nerd Nite in Los Angeles before moving to Asheville and starting the local Nerd Nite Chapter.
Von claims this show for the Romulan Empire. (IG: @von.infinity)