As always, the most important question of Nerdstock is what nerdy desserts I am going to bring. It’s always hard to top the year 1 cupcake challenge, or the year 2 dragon, but I do try. There were the zombie cookies, which I liked a lot, but this year I decided to try for a […]
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Nerdstock IIII: The Death of Roman Numerals
Are you a nerd? Do you love board games, strategy games, social games, games of skill, games of chance, drinking too much, watching your friends drink too much, or getting injured? Then you would love Nerdstock. Now in its fourth year, this Mecca for local game geeks has inexplicably and accidentally moved away from roman […]
The Importance of Self-Care: Nerdstock 3.0
My life has been a little chaotic lately. It has been troubled and disturbed, like a pool of water with a dragonfly skimming over it as it darts back and forth. It is the same life, but it has a new surface. We have been told to get back to normal, and to deal with […]
Dragon Brownies, Super Laxatives, and Glow-in-the-Dark Sneakers: Nerdstock 2.0
Once a year my brother-in-law Cave gathers together a team of his nerdiest allies and sequesters them in a house somewhere in the mountains of Vermont for a weekend of games that has been dubbed “Nerdstock,” by virtue of popular vote. Last year was the inaugural test-run, for which you may recall I baked the […]
Nerdstock
Nerdstock. That’s what we voted to call our weekend. It beat out other suggested titles such as “Nerdvana,” “Nerdfest,” and “The Conclave of Nerds,” as well as many other titles not suitable for printing in a family publication such as this one. Like deer camp without hunting, like the Olympics without any sort of athletic […]