Nerd Nite #17: Curve Balls, Cursive and The Eccentricity Curve

Nerd Nite goes part biology, part philosophy and part Moby Dick with lessons on cultivating your own unique obsession and eccentricity. From the firetruck-chasing (and possibly insane) star athlete who become a huge media sensation in the early 1900s, to the navigator who dragged himself to the brink of death searching for the magnetic South Pole, to California's own expert on the obscure elongate benthic fishes, stories of living life at the edge of the Eccentricity Curve abound. Starting with his famous fish-centric walking tours that forage seafood in San Francisco Bay to books and a television series, Kirk Lombard has navigated his obsession with mudsuckers, blennies and toadfish into a full career. Learn about the fish, several famous eccentrics of the last century, and hear the (true!) story of the largest monkeyface eel every caught.