May 13th – 19th

Happy Mother’s Day to all! We are lucky to have a very good mom who has always been someone we try to emulate. We can only hope that we’ll be as capable and as accomplished as she is over the course of our lives.

July 10th – 16th

The Valley Nerd Watch! Spider-Man: Homecoming was a movie we really liked a lot, and we think we can recommend it pretty wholeheartedly. Dragged a bit in places, but overall our favorite take on Peter Parker as Spider-Man pretty much period in a long time. We also had the absolutely positive addition of a young […]

Rise Up: The Game of People & Power – Locals Create Board Game About Organizing for Change!

Rise Up is a cooperative boardgame about organizing for change, and it sounds neat. We remember hearing about the Kickstarter a ways back, and probably pointing folks toward it. It looks like the result is a pretty delightful looking game! Here’s their pitch in their own words: At the start of each game, players come […]

Protect Net Neutrality – July 12th Day of Action

Hello there! We at the Nerd Watch are very tiny site that hopefully you enjoy. In part because we’re super tiny, Net Neutrality is important to us! We’re a local-interest community organization that cannot possibly exist if the internet becomes a place where you pay monopolies in order to be accessible to other people. Because […]

March 6th – March 12th

The Valley Nerd Watch! So hey here’s a thing we just found out about recently despite ostensibly being a news source: due to a variety of circumstances both unforeseen and ultraforeseen the lovably local game shop co-op Worlds Apart Games is going to cease to exist soon. Like, by the end of March. So that’s […]

October 3rd – October 9th

The Valley Nerd Watch! Happy Halloween Month! Indulge your cosplay desires in this, the month we all agree it’s acceptable for everyone to dress in a neat costume all hours of every day including the work day because we as a society understand how to make life a bit more decent and are capable of […]