Making Boston Awesome, One Wall at a Time

There was a whole lot of Awesome in the submissions bag for the Boston chapter’s September 2011 Fellowship. One in particular stood out. Internationally known mural artist, Caleb Neelon, applied for spray paint and sandwich money to underwrite the transformation of a large wall for the Tobin School in Mission Hill. For those who love [...]

Announcing 2 New Boston Trustees! (Psst… we still need 1 more)

The summer has been mighty busy in Awesometonia. In Boston alone, we:

Had our TED stage debut with Christina Xu’s “The Importance of Being Awesome” at TEDxBoston.
Held our first (of hopefully many) Nerdy/Awesome collaborations by co-hosting Nerd Nite Boston on Monday, July 25th.
Are in the process of planning an open deliberation event for late September. (Stay [...]

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It's T-Minus sixteen days until the inaugural WordCamp Boston!
I've been looking forward to this event for a while.  My training regimen began in earnest on November 13, 2009 when I tuned in for the live stream of WordCamp Phoenix. (Thanks GoDaddy!)
I haven't found an outfit as comfortable as the jammies I donned for the Phoenix [...]

Invasion of the Pod Tweeple #pcb4

I never had the whole "Kumbaya" camp experience as a kid. There were two summers I was signed up for the town rec. department's "Summer Scene" day program. A few weeks in, they'd run out of gimp. I'd be out of the bracelet making biz, free to spend time with the devil's spawn little angels [...]

Mission: Plausible

Last year I had the good fortune to work with a great group of creative folks on a short film for the 48 Hour Film Project competition. There were 92 submissions for Boston. Only one person on our team had entered the competition before. No one in our group had collaborated previously [...]

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILsD4gNTOX8]Ralph Menconi leads a structured life. You can set your watch to his weekly routine, on military time no less. He doesn’t need a watch, or an alarm clock for that matter. Without fail, he wakes up at 5:20 am each morning. At this point consistency is ingrained, as much a part of his identity as his social security number. Perhaps even more illuminating about the man he has become than any information found by entering a string of numbers into a computer program.

The contents of his wallet are sparse, limited to: a bill fold, his V.A. card, and a medium sized keychain with a scratched up copper robot medallion (a birthday gift from his nephew Billy). His wardrobe: simple. A typical engineer’s uniform, if you will: blue button down shirt, khaki pants and brown belt. However, there is one unique touch: a 1941 centissimo pendant tied on with a worn piece of twine. It never comes off for any reason and probably never will.

Life wasn’t always so rigid for Ralph. As a young boy…