27 – a geek fest of note!
I attended my first 27 dinner last night. I was quite intrigued. Largely because the last time I saw such a large congregation of geeks was at a LAN party when I still used to have these really el8 and phj33rs0m3 quake skillz and more so because there were a fair amount of not bad looking geeky babes. The only things that were missing were stormtrooper outfits and Magic the Gathering cards.
In all fairness, these were the smart geeks that I believe I’ll find myself interacting with more and more.
I had to unfortunately leave early for another dinner but did manage to catch Colin & Eric’s talks and I got to take home a pair of braai tongs??
Oh yeah! and a cool limited edition Afrigator T shirt entrusted to me by Mr Justin Hartman who happens to be quite a smart dude.
I attended the dinner to network a bit and in the hopes of finding smeone who I could collaborate some ideas with and turns out myself and Justin are definitely on the same wavelength so I reckon we going to work on something on the side, something fun and something that we’ll keep to ourselves until some time later.
Overall I enjoyed myself, met a few people, heard some cool things and saw some faces I hadn’t seen in a while and promised myself that when I do see Tyler again, to give him a sharp smack around the ear for not pitching.
I’ll definitely be at the next one in 2 months time and as soon as the wiki is updated for the next dinner, my name’s going on asap.
oh yeah and Mike should not give up his dayjob to be an MC.
It was great to meet you too man! Looking forward to chatting further about those groovy ideas you had!
hahaha Paul!! damn bru, hope Mike doesn’t read that
I’m so sorry that I missed this one :-/
Hartman is a geniusfellow for sure & I’m particularly bummed about missing out on connecting with him..
and why the HELL have I not bumped in2 you before if you’ve worked with Vinny & you know lots of crew?!
congrats on the times blog gig!!
love from the muthacity, the ex-jozi geekgirl
Yes Max. Imagine my disappointment when I didn’t see your gorgeous face at 27 especially after we made a deal – remember?
Oh well, I guess I’ll have to wait another 2 months…..
Thanks Max
I know Vinny from when we both used to work for Osiris, same with Eric, Tyler I know for a few years, he is a member of another site I run, Colin I work with, Gregor I don’t know but after last night I think we’ll get to know each other, and Carly works somewhere in this building and I don’t know her very well at all either, but today she gave me a warm wink and a friendly, traffic stopping smile so I figured that hanging out with geeks for 1 evening every 2 months has its advantages.
Vince asked me howcome we have never met either and my honest answer is that I have no idea but anyone who read PCFormat will know that I wrote articles for them and co-owned Mars Mlodzinski’s website and co-founded The Kinetiq Web Movement which owns Blogmad.net
I’m not a media ho, but I have been around the blog
Oh and the blog gig is a side thing, I’m supposed to be a systems analyst working on SEO for The Times.
So close but no cigar…
I was sick
yeah yeah FADER!
a traffic stopping smile
So I should chill on the roadrage then 
ok.. it might have been a traffic stopping scowl ?
hehehehehehehe – will smile more then!