Healthy Paranoia Show 2: Where No Nerd Has Gone Before

2 September 2012 by 2 Comments

It seems appropriate this Labor Day, a holiday that pays tribute to the American worker, to rediscover the lost talent of making stuff. So the Packetpushers pulled out their tricorders and went in search of the ultimate nerd haven, the hackerspace. If you aren’t familiar with the term, according to Urbandictionary.com, a hackerspace is:

A facility to incubate nerds and equip them with tools. Currently found in all major cities, hackerspaces exist to pool nerds’ resources together and enable them to build and invent ever newer and better things. Most hackerspaces are equipped with rapid prototyping machines (3D printers, laser cutters, CNCs), metal milling tools, welding, electronics, and millinery.

And in this Healthy Paranoia episode it’s a nerdy, geeky delight chatting with a few heroes from the hackerspace front: Travis Good, co-founder of NoVA Labs,  Ben Mendis of Project Byzantium and Brad Barr, president of HacDC. So fasten your seat belts, because this show is +1000 on the nerd meter!*

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*Special thanks to Coverville for allowing the use of samples from “Smooth Federation,” an instrumental jazz tribute album featuring covers of Star Trek music.

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About Mrs. Y

Mrs. Y is a recovering Unix engineer working in network security. Also the host of Healthy Paranoia and official nerd hunter. She likes long walks in hubsites, traveling to security conferences and spending time in the Bat Cave. Sincerely believes that every problem can be solved with a "for" loop. When not blogging or podcasting, can be found using up her 15 minutes in the Twittersphere or Google+ as @MrsYisWhy.

  • Ahmed

    AMAZING show Mrs. Y! This show has earned Healthy Paranoia a permanent spot at my podcast roundtable. Especially since I’ve lived in the NOVA area practically my whole life and had no idea something like this existed.

    I’m definitely interested in the meetups as well as the Elements of Computer Systems class/SICP class……

  • ktokash

    Excellent show. I’ve tried 2600 and Irvine Underground (like 2600 but more organized) but I’d never heard of any of these. For the record I’ve always thought that if you can’t replace “hacker” with “tinkerer” you’re saying it wrong.