The New England Garrison of the 501st Legion will be making an appearance in Nashua on Saturday 10/8 at the Home Depot on Coliseum Drive to help celebrate Fire Safety Week.
If you haven't heard of the 501st yet, here is their group description posted on their site:
The New England Garrison is part of a Star Wars costuming fan club that currently holds a 4000+ membership in all 50 U.S. states and 25 countries worldwide. From Stormtroopers to Snowtroopers, Bounty Hunters to Sith Lords, the 501st is the premier Imperial Star Wars costuming fan club in the galaxy!
In addition to having fun in costume, we also enjoy helping our community. We have had the opportunity to participate in charity events, children's hospital visits, fundraisers, movie premieres, celebrity appearances and conventions.We can be seen in newspapers, the news, and all over the internet.
So come out, learn about fire safety, kill a few Jawas, and enjoy the day.
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We've been hard at work in our super-secret blogger cloning facility to bring you more voices on Live Geek Or Die. We're very happy to report that our first successful products, Subjects 523 and 776, are thankfully through the uncomfortable "adjustment" period and don't feel an ounce of guilt over all the other Subjects we had to.....erm..... "let go."
A long overdue welcome to Michael Murray, a.k.a. "Murph," who's already been hard at work bringing you all the Nintendo news that the rest of us slackers can't get to.
Our second addition, still with that new clone-tank smell, is Matthew Swenk, a.k.a "Matt" who got referred to us by Jared.
Welcome aboard, gentlemen.
For the fifth year, the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth is hosting the Formula Hybrid Challenge at New Hampshire Motor Speedway May 1-4. The competition features hybrid and electric racing cars built by undergraduate and graduate engineering students. Thanks to Granite State Geek for getting this story out.
Last night my wife Meredith and I attended Video Games Live (VGL) at the Captiol Center for the Arts in Concord NH. (Interestingly the CCA was where Meredith and I had our wedding reception, so it was a nice trip down memory lane for us.)
The concert is part of the Gile Concert Series, which is a series of free concerts sponsored by the William H Gile Legacy Fund. It was interesting that the Gile series chose VGL as one of its free concerts.
Overall I would rate this concert as a compelling experience and well worth seeing even if you have to spend money on tickets. Hearing the scores of some of our favorite games performed by a full orchestra and chorus combined with excellent visuals from the games really reinforces the depth of talent and artistry that has been put into developing video games over the past decades. Some of the more "symphonic" pieces have the ability to evoke goosebumps even though they have been heard hundreds of times before. My personal favorites were selections from the "Halo" and "Warcraft" series. There are funny video interstitials between the music pieces to allow the orchestra time to rest and change setups and as a result the concert flows very well overall.
The events keep rolling in.
Video Games Live, which presents well-known video game scores in a live setting with full orchestra and visuals from the games, will be coming to the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord NH on November 17th.
Although it is on a Wednesday night, tickets for the event are free!
While I have mixed feelings about group prank activities, I thought this tribute to "Lemmings" was cute.
The Perseid meteor showers are one of the most reliable meteor showers visible by the naked eye. They take place from mid-July through mid-August each year, with peak activity being between August 9-14. This year's peak activity will be on August 12.
To celebrate, the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium in Concord NH is featuring a Perseid and Pizza Party Thursday August 12. Pizza will be served from 8:00 - 9:30, there will be a presentation from 9:30-10:00 and then viewing will begin at 10:00.
Via Computerworld, I read of a plan by the federal government to provide training to prepare 50,000 IT workers for the electronic medical records (EMR) program.
The program is designed to train existing IT workers in the intricacies of health records, rather than train new workers with no IT experience. The government will provide $144M in grant money to 80 community colleges and universities. A large portion of the money is expected to be spent on rural hospitals that currently have very little EMR operation. The grant money may be used by some colleges to reduce tuition costs to students.