If you're going to somebody else's house or restaurant for Thanksgiving dinner, tomorrow's Providence Geek Dinner may be just what you need to entertain yourself while the rest of America rassles with raw turkey and rolls pie crust.

Providence Geeks co-founders Jack Templin and Brian Jepson set the date for the monthly gathering without reference to a calendar noting holidays, so this becomes the Thanksgiving Eve edition, separating the geek cooks and their helpers from those who merely show up at a plate.

If you're not partying in your own kitchen around then, the place is AS220, 115 Empire St., 5:30-9 p.m. Details at this link.

The featured geek demo is by Paul Badger, who teaches physical computing and electronic media at RISD, and owns the Modern Device Company.

I'm double-whammied: Not only is the Big Dinner at my house, my kitchen is being painted this week. The painter promises it will be finished Wednesday afternoon. While the geeks close in on the meaning of sentences such as, "Open-source hardware is something of a new concept without a clear definition at this point," I'll be trying to find my pots and pans. As they munch tacos standing up, I'll be exercising my inner kitchen geek: My lifetime collection of spices, all in boxes now, must once again range alphabetically down a wall of vertical shelves before fine cooking can resume.

On an earlier version of this item, the headline scrambled the calendar as well. We trust you know that tomorrow is Wednesday, not Tuesday.