Join us for an evening of rad talks, beer and nerd-approved music. Be there and be square!
December 5
6:30 doors, 7:30 talks
$5 cover
LUCID Jazz Lounge
Printcasting: How Genre Can Save Books (Again)
Paul Constant
Like it or not, we’re in the middle of a titanic shift as the publishing industry struggles to embrace e-books. But from Amazon’s e-ink Kindle screens to the “realistic” wooden shelves and page turn animations of Apple’s iBooks, nobody seems to be thinking about the ways books can adapt to tablets and the internet. Stranger books editor Paul Constant will offer up a concept for a publishing platform that will borrow from the rich history of paper publishing—from the birth of science fiction to the dawn of the Marvel age of comics to the explosion of fanfic—while bringing books into the collaborative, multimedia-happy present. Constant has been documenting the slow, aggravating decline of the publishing industry for five years. His writing has also appeared in the Utne Reader, Newsweek, The Progressive, and in alternative weeklies around the country.
I’m sorry for your lossy
Ross Maddox
Lossy music compression, such as mp3, throws out bits of information from your music files. Some bits you never miss, and some you do. While attempting not to moralize too much, sound nerd Ross Maddox will explain how lossy compression works, why it’s such a cool technology, and why you should never listen to it. But do not despair, he will also explain the superior alternative: lossless compression. Ross is a researcher in the field of auditory neuroscience who knows a little bit of math that he applies as broadly as he can to problems in brains, the stock market, and music processing. He is also a co-boss of Nerd Nite Seattle.
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