A hot date with nerds

Last Friday Backbytes was in 2600 Broadway Street, Redwood City for a street party in honour of #NERDNEWYEAR. Well, we weren’t, but we visited the web page and followed the Twitter feed, which is how the nerds in question would have wanted it. It did mean, however, that we didn’t get to use the 22ft inflatable slide or take part in the Robot Hackathon – “making real robots that are beginner-friendly, customizable, motorizable and recyclable”.

For those of you who wonder what all the fuss is about, 11/11/11 is the last binary date for 88 years, by which time we’ll have invented a new calendar anyway. And for those of you who enjoy binary digit humour, we bring a quote from party organiser Adam Rifkin: “It is ON,” he said.