My Geek Dinner experience summed up
I have been to many of the 27 and Geek Dinners in both Cape Town and in the Garden Route, and let me tell you last night’s Geek Dinner rocked! They always do, but the Happy Habanero “Original Geek Dinner” was special!
Mel’s Village Kitchen proved to be an awesome venue. The food was great! Perdeberg also made sure that we had wine for the evening.
The talks were fantastic. Jonathan 1’s, Introduction to Game Theory (or, Why You Shouldn’t Push In On the N1) had me in giggles. I am now convinced that I should make a list and forward the theory to the culprits I know. Jonathan 2 summed up how to really live in 5 easy points. His presentation on Five ways to live like a Capetonian was inspiring. Ian made me more neurotic about the food I consume with his talk on Why greenies don’t like genetically modified food. Of course no Geek Dinner is complete without the Karaoke slideshow. A combination of Brad’s slides and Tim’s hilarious presentation thereof added to the jolly vibe.
Apart from sitting at the naughtiest table [blaming Henk]. I really enjoyed catching up with everybody. I am refraining from naming people this time round as I probably know more than half the room.
After most people had left “nine naughty ones” remained. We got up to mischief with much innuendo and debate. It was truly a laugh a minute! Due to true geekiness - nothing was documented via twitter.
Geek style – I have already signed up for the next one in July.
PS: One last scattered thought, could we spam people who add their names to the list but never arrive? A form of punishment or revenge. Essentially they hog the space somebody else could have taken - truly inconsiderate! Is Game Theory applicable to this scenario too?
31/05/2008 at 2:45 pm
I think you’re a bit confused, I wasn’t even there! Surely you mean Jonathan3 and Jonathan4!?
02/06/2008 at 9:22 am
Well, Jonathan C - Norms, conventions, rules or anything utterly average is definitely not my thing. I decided that numbering it in order of who I know better made far more sense [to me]. I thus numbered it MY WAY!
Apparently this is a rather sensitive subject, as sooooo many people have mentioned this to me. To avoid any further confusion [e.g. with your google alerts] I will ponder pet names for all of you.
Please feel free to submit your pet name preferences here, alternatively you could submit pet name recommendations for the other three.
PS Hope you well!!!
02/06/2008 at 6:19 pm
If possible I would like to be henceforth known as “Awesomeboy”.
Second and third choices would be “TotallyRadGuy” and “WitnessTheKiefnessDude” respectively.
ps. What do you call people who browse your site? Feisties?
02/06/2008 at 9:38 pm
I’d be content with Awesomeboy2 then.
03/06/2008 at 5:18 pm
After much thought and consideration I have decided on the alternative names. Here’s the plan:
Jonathan 4 - you are now the demanding but TotallyRadGuy.
Jonathan 2 - you are now allowed to add Awesomeboy to your Google Alerts.
Jonathan 3 - I think you can be the AwesomeSmartAss.
Settled?
PS Feisties… it just doesn’t have the same ring to it than the competition. Maybe the “The Curious Clan”? Once again your suggestions in this regard are most welcome. Are you calling your readers “arbitrary readers”?
03/06/2008 at 5:20 pm
Hmph. I didn’t ask for that.
03/06/2008 at 5:24 pm
Hmph - well it is one of feistyfemale’s complimentary blog services. Shall we just call you Sire?
03/06/2008 at 5:25 pm
Complementary, maybe, but certainly not complimentary.
As for Sire? Yes. We find this acceptable.
12/06/2008 at 6:31 am
Settled then Sire!
18/06/2008 at 10:01 pm
Wait.
So I come up with names and you assign them to other people?
What is this? Open Source?
j.
19/06/2008 at 2:46 pm
Ha ha ha ! Two words:
Ubuntu bru!