Drink and Draw! (a twitter event and more)

On July 13, 2011, in Andy Romine, Art Nerd, Galen Dara, The Booze Nerd, by Galen Dara

I’ve asked Booze Nerd Andy Romine to assist me in writing this post as we gear up for a Functional Nerds Drink & Draw party.  Thank you Andy! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Functional Nerds twitter event: Drink & Draw! When: The evening of Friday July 15th. Where: tweeting from a computer/mobile device near you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Drink • and […]

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Limited Offer: The Booze Nerd Shirt

On March 29, 2011, in News, The Booze Nerd, by Patrick Hester

Introducing the Booze Nerd T-Shirt! Want people to know that yours is a sophisticated palette?  That you don’t mess around with just any old drink – you prefer your liquor mixed, blended – the classic cocktail is your raison detre. Well, now you can have your drink and advertise it too! The Limited Edition Booze […]

Episode 030 Jaym Gates and Erika Holt

On October 25, 2010, in Podcast, by Patrick Hester

030 The Functional Nerds In our 30th episode, John & I welcome Jaym Gates & Erika Holt as our latest recruits in the 3rd Nerd Army! Jaym & Erika share details of their new anthology, Rigor Amortis; a collection of stories about Romanace, Revenge, Risk & Raunch – with Zombies.  We also tackle topics like: […]

Episode 023

On August 27, 2010, in Podcast, by Patrick Hester

023 The Functional Nerds In the 23rd episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by returning 3rd Nerd Aidan Moher and our youngest recruit to date – Dan Goodman!  This week, we chat about NASA, crowdsourcing wake up music for astronauts, digital distribution, Stargate Atlantis, creative commons licensing, Cory Doctorow, […]

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Episode 020

On July 30, 2010, in Podcast, by Patrick Hester

020 The Functional Nerds In the 20th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by bestselling author Peter V. Brett!  This week we chat about writing a book on a Windows Mobile phone, writing to sell, making time to write, The Warded Man, good v. evil, magic symbolism, demons, moral […]

Episode 19

On July 23, 2010, in Podcast, by Patrick Hester

019 The Functional Nerds In the 19th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by bestselling TOR author L.E. Modesitt Jr.  This week we chat about MR. Modesitt’s career, his 56 books, how he became a writer, his time in the U.S. Navy as a pilot, as a poet, military […]

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Episode 18

On July 16, 2010, in Podcast, by Patrick Hester

018 The Functional Nerds In the 18th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the latest recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army, John DeNardo from SF Signal.com!  John D gives us a hand as we welcome legendary science fiction author and five time hugo winner Mike Resnick!  This week […]

Episode 17

On July 9, 2010, in Podcast, by Patrick Hester

017 The Functional Nerds In the 17th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the latest recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army, Curtis Silver from Wired.com’s Geek Dad!  In the show this week, we discuss, ramble and conversate upon such varied and wondrous topics as: the Apple App store […]

Episode 15

On June 25, 2010, in Podcast, by Patrick Hester

015 The Functional Nerds In the 15th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the latest recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army, 2001 and 2006 International Horror Guild Award winner for Best Artist, 2005 Chesley Award winner for best paperback cover & 2010 Hugo Award nominee & mega-artist John […]

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Episode 14

On June 18, 2010, in Podcast, by Patrick Hester

014 The Functional Nerds In the 14th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the latest recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army, blogger and mega science fiction and fantasy book reviewer from Grasping for the Wind: John Ottinger! This week we chat about: John Anealio’s inability to pronounce Thaumatrope, […]

Episode 12

On June 4, 2010, in Podcast, by Patrick Hester

012 The Functional Nerds In the Twelfth episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the latest recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army, Z from the Hipster Please/Radio Free Hipster podcast and Wired’s GeekDad HipTrax Podcast! This week, John Anealio tells us about his adventures at Balticon with author/podcaster Mur […]

Episode 004

On April 9, 2010, in Podcast, by Patrick Hester

004 The Functional Nerds In the fourth episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio chat about a proposed sequel to John’s George RR Martin is not your bitch called ‘George RR Lucas IS my bitch’, about: John Ottinger, grasping for the wind, R.E.M, Billy Joel, comic book creator copyrights, Marvel, DC, Image, […]

Episode 001

On March 20, 2010, in Podcast, by Patrick Hester

001 The Functional Nerds In the very first episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio chat about the new iPad from Apple, what it means to be a ‘functional nerd’, about: science fiction media, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, Felicia Day and The Guild, SciFi site SFSignal.com, the Atari 2600, […]

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