MONDAY 30 | Defined by urbandictionary.com as ‘one whose IQ exceeds his weight’, the nerd gains pleasure from amassing vast quantities of knowledge about subjects often too complicated for regular folk. Occasionally, the nerds those same folk will probably one day call ‘Boss’ deign to share that knowledge – perhaps nowhere more succinctly than at Nerd Nites. The format is simple: 20 slides, 20 seconds each. “It’s like the Discovery Channel… with beer!” say the US founders of a craze that has since burst America’s borders. Here in Phnom Penh, it has evolved into the rather more accurately spelt Nerd Nights. Previous topics have included everything from undercover sex signals to things you never knew about goats. Tonight: anyone’s guess. Mandatory dress code: thick-rimmed spectacles held together with sticky tape.
WHO: Nerds
WHAT: Stuff you never knew you needed to know
WHERE: The Village, #1 Street 360
WHEN: 7:30pm September 30
WHY: And God said: ‘The geek shall inherit the Earth’