Nerdnite - April

Saturday was April's monthly Nerd Nite at DC9 so we got there at 6:30 sharp, ordered some awesome, heavy on the garlic, french fries, and a couple of drinks and went upstairs. The evening's roster started with a stream biologist who talked about how government ecological enforcement agencies can use the count of insects in the water to measure the health of streams. The speaker had great stage presence and was pretty funny. He was also a member of the band that played between speakers, which also had three entomolygists, and played bluegrass. Pretty good as well. I was pleasantly supplied by their female vocalist who really had some pipes. THe next speaker was an older guy with long silver hair, a former student at Berkley who talked about the life and works of R Buckminster Fuller. This is especially interesting as apparently he is connected to the performance at the Arena Stage that we have tickets for later next month. He was also handing out discount coupons which we could not take advantage of because we had already bought our tix. Boo. Last was a kooky, blond afro-ed, french canadian dentist with a funny accent. He talked about the potential of stem cells to regenerate teeth. I just got a kick out of watching him because he reminded me of the lead in Mel Brooks Dr Frankenstein.