| GeekDinner: Karmic Kava |
[Nov. 28th, 2008|11:40 am] |
Last night I attended the most recent Cape Town GeekDinner, Karmic Kava. The venue was Adesso, who really went all out to make it a fantastic evening. The food was great, even though none of the choices on the menu were really to my taste.
I was the slideshow karaoke victim presenter this time around, and Vhata provided me with a presentation he stole from found on the internet. While it wasn't ideal karaoke material in that there was way too much verbiage, I knew the subject matter well enough to pick up a couple of keywords and wing it. The subject in question was Reiki, and my treatment of it would certainly have offended any true believers in the audience, but I'd had just enough sponsored wine by that point that I really didn't care. Most people seemed to enjoy it, though. I even mentioned Laser Reiki amongst the more grandiose claims.
After that, I spent the rest of the evening circulating and ended up in a corner discussing programming languages, editors and distributed systems with a guy whose name I either didn't catch or don't remember. Before I knew it, it was after midnight and time to head home and get some sleep. All in all, my best GeekDinner experience yet. |
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| Birthdays, wine and randomness |
[Apr. 1st, 2008|10:07 am] |
Last night was the Garrulous Grape GeekDinner, seventh in the series. A bunch of interesting people (mostly techies, but we had at least one hippie) met at Greens in Plattekloof for an evening of conversation, heckling, food, wine and generally being around like-minded people.
The food was marvelous, even better than I have come to expect from Greens. The wine was also really good (at least, the cab sav was -- I had half a bottle of that and didn't get to any of the others) and was, as is the case at all the geekdinners, free. This time, it was sponsored by Perdeberg who I had previously never heard of, but are now on my list of places to buy from.
Also noteworthy, today is the tenth birthday of the best mailing list on the tubes. I had heard of the Hivemind long before I joined, but didn't fully grok the depth of its usefulness and entertainment value until I caved in and joined. Since then I have mercilessly attacked the current copyright system, vehemently defended rationality and science against superstition and learned a lot about politics, economics and how to prod the Ivobot just so. |
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