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Geeks for DinnerGeeks for DinnerGeeks for Dinner 12/29/2003 01:17 AM A Silicon Valley Geek Dinner hosted by Robert Scoble is on tomorrow night at the Cheesecake Factory in Palo Alto.... This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)Geeks for DinnerGrok Headline matches for Geeks for DinnerI eat my dinner from an old tin can...I eat my dinner from an old tin can... 04/14/2004 10:31 PM A great old animation (5.4MB quicktime) set to a wonderful song Old Tin Can. Dinner for OneDinner for One 03/22/2005 04:40 PM
« A shrine to candle wax in the restaurant Kynsilaukka, the Finnish equivalent to the Stinking Rose. » I've begun to notice that restaurants and just about any place that offers food and tables almost always have newspapers and magazines for their patrons. These are, I presume, for those who are alone and want something to read while eating instead of staring at the walls. Given that a large percentage of the population in Finland lives alone, it makes a certain amount of sense, but I still find it odd to gaze upon a sea of tables occupied by people trying to read and stuff their mouth at the same time, something I find quite difficult to do. I don't remember too many places in the US, other than diners or breakfast houses, that would offer newspapers for the patrons. I always used to get take-away whenever I had no companion to dine with as I viewed restaurants as a place to be social and would feel very awkward were I alone. Sometimes I would take a book with me to a local pub where I would sit at the bar, order a beer and a burger, and read a little bit until someone would ask about the book or about work or whatever just to start a conversation. I suppose I admire the wherewithal it takes to take yourself out to eat, but there's something incredibly lonely about it, too. Finns likely don't even notice the silent ones in the corner munching away over the paper and even if they did they'd likely think they want to be left alone. I suppose they have to believe that. Going to NYC. Dinner, anyone?Going to NYC. Dinner, anyone? 11/13/2003 12:44 AM Next Wednesday I'm flying to New York to spend Thursday at the Yahoo! Hot Jobs office in Manhattan. I fly back home on Friday morning unless I can't get everything done on Thursday. Then I'll push back a few hours, I guess. Amusingly, the hotel room costs more than the flight does. Yeay! for cheap air fares on the SJC to JFK route. Anyway... Are there any New Yorkers reading my blog who want to meet up for dinner on... Dinner with DocDinner with Doc 06/30/2004 07:40 AM Doc came over for dinner a couple of nights ago. We came up with a killer plan for spam, found a way to enable file sharing while ensuring fair compensation for artists, and whiteboarded the single epithet that ensures the defeat of Bush in 2004. Unfortunately, the dinner was off-blog, so you'll just have to take my word for it. Doc on the verge of Solving All Problems... SFP: Dinner with DanSFP: Dinner with Dan 06/17/2005 03:28 PM Geeks and the SunGeeks and the Sun 07/20/2004 03:05 AM Heard today at work, as I arrived to a meeting late: "Hey, you got some sun this weekend." "I get sun every weekend." It was only later that I realized how un-computer-geeky I've been this summer. I've spent every weekend I can outside and away from the computer. And, if the day is going well, I'm often 3,000 - 9,000 feet in the air. Sometimes more. It's good to have a hobby that gets me out of the house. As... Six GeeksSix Geeks 02/17/2004 11:45 PM Last week at the ETCON, James Duncan Davidson posted this picture which captures so many different themes to me. ... We're All Geeks NowWe're All Geeks Now 07/22/2004 03:13 PM We've complained before about how the tech industry is way too focused on "jargon," but it appears that now that tech is going so mainstream, lots of people are picking up the jargon, even if they don't realize it. New Media Zero has an amusing anecdote about a focus group on a new digital video recorder advertising effort where there was a woman in the "over 70" age group who admitted she wasn't technically literate at all. However, when the ad system was being described to her, she apparently stated: "So it's a bit like the difference between streaming and downloading content over a broadband connection." Apparently, the woman who claimed she wasn't technically literate at all had picked up more than she realized -- she just assumed that everyone else knew more about tech than she did, because they always seemed to before. In other words, perhaps technolog y is making us all into geeks these days. The writer also points to the number of people (in the UK, where this is more common than the US) who use more advanced features on their mobile phones (and know all the terminology associated with it), saying that ten years ago, most of those people would insist they would never use such features. This doesn't mean that tech lingo is still good for marketing purposes, but it does suggest learning the lingo isn't as big a hurdle as some make it out to be. PCs for non-geeksPCs for non-geeks 10/29/2003 01:14 AM A couple of interesting links about the security problems faced by the vast majority of the home PC using public, who don't know how to install security updates (or even what they are) and don't have a corporate IT department to bail them out when they run in to problems. Joe Average User Is In Trouble is a column by a security expert bemoaning the scale of the problem. Do we all need a personal system administrator? is a call for advice from Steve Garrity for tips on minimising the support calls he gets from his parents, and includes an excellent response from Matt Haughey in the comments. I've been called to a less-geeky friend's PC before to find it so infested with malware that it had slowed to a crawl. Most security breaches seem to come from Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, so Matt's advice to replace them with Firebird and Thunderbird seems like a particularly good idea. Placing PCs behind a hardware router is a great idea as well as it at least prevents nasty traffic from the internet from probing the computer - although as Adam Kalsey points out such a set up won't prevent malicious software that has already snuck its way on to a PC from calling home. Where do geeks go to die?Where do geeks go to die? 02/13/2004 01:13 PM Answer: The Apple Store. A bunch of us decided to do a pilgrimage to the nearest Apple sales point, and unfortunately nobody got out unharmed. I survived with only some scratches (a couple of games and a TV adapter), but one of the guys who came "just to browse" ended up buying a 15" Powerbook, and a French guy could not resist buying a 23" Cinema Display. The question is not whether we are still sane, but whether the French guy can fit the display in his carry-on baggage... ETech is NOT a good place to be if you have ever wondered about buying a Mac, because everyone there is such an Mac überuser. You just cannot help but be sucked in after seeing how cool it is to edit documents with SubEthaEdit and chat with everyone in the same Rendezvous circle. Using a Mac is not about speed or the latest 3D games. It is about the aesthetic experience of completeness and satisfaction. Paris dinnerParis dinner 08/27/2004 01:47 PM Loic has set up reservations at a place called WINE BAR L'EVASION. Dîner avec Marc Canter le Vendredi 27 Aout à Paris.heure: 20hplace/lieu WINE BAR L'EVASION Menu: Tout compris plats + vin: 47 euros My dinner with SontagMy dinner with Sontag 01/04/2005 10:41 AM I crossed chopsticks with America's most ferocious intellectual -- and the sushi turned to ashes in my mouth. Geek Dinner, etc.Geek Dinner, etc. 12/30/2004 07:42 PM Tonight's plan: Geek Dinner and Geek Dinner Afterparty. That's assuming the traffic and weather are in my favor, of course. See you there?... Tempura DinnerTempura Dinner 01/09/2004 09:44 PM It's great to see Furukawa-san, the CEO of Nifty using their newly launched (it launched on December 2) Cocolog service powered by TypePad to keep his own weblog - it's a testament to his belief in weblogs and TypePad and... My (non) Dinner with the Republicans...My (non) Dinner with the Republicans... 06/24/2004 09:46 AM As Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Republican Small Business Council (damn, I can't get that name straight), I received a personal taped call just now from Rep. Tom Reynolds. ...More here... Longhorn: It's What For DinnerLonghorn: It's What For Dinner 08/29/2004 05:12 AM Longhorn is starting to look less like Tiger than another Apple OS effort: Copland, the ill-starred mid-'90s development campaign that let Windows 95 seize the marketing initiative. Is it time to turn the tables? By Matthew Rothenberg, Ziff Davis (via MyAppleMenu) Spam for dinnerSpam for dinner 01/22/2004 03:02 AM I'm at a dinner where we're talking about spam. There are high level execs from many of the companies involved in email. One person said that he thought we've seen the worst of spam and that it's getting better. It's too bad I can't quote people with attribution, because I think this is a totally unreasonable position. We've now moved on to Internet governance and as usual, I haven't heard a single opinion that convinces me that email isn't broken and that it isn't just getting worse. We talked about pay to send, better filters, re-inventing smtp, regulations... all of the usual. Yet another fruitless discussion about spam. (yafudas). 17% of legitimate email is not delivered. 81% of people in a recent survey are afraid of false positives. BlogOn DinnerBlogOn Dinner 07/19/2004 06:45 PM Looking forward to BlogOn later this week in Berkeley. There is an open blogger dinner Friday night you can sign up for, should be a blast. Here's a nice article on Social Media as a Wave that interviews Mary Hodder... Dinner with AndroidDinner with Android 01/19/2004 02:53 AM Here is a conversation from the near future:
On the surface, there seems to be nothing wrong. But notice the type of question being asked. With information at your fingertip, the need to ask for information from another person diminishes. So instead of asking about the book, Joe is asking about query terms. He could have also said “Could You?“ and Bob would have interpreted it as request to beam URL or search words. I don't know about you, but it seems like technology is eating away at the meat of everyday social life, leaving just the bare bones. In respect to blogging, I wonder how blogging affects a person's life. More opinionated? Less inquisitive about other people's opinions because they are already exposed to a wide range of opinions online? Nice chewy topic I think. Longhorn: Its Whats for DinnerLonghorn: Its Whats for Dinner 08/30/2004 02:55 AM Longhorn: It's What's for Dinner .. Is it time to turn the tables? blog.ziffdavis.com/rothenberg/archive/2004/08/28/1870.aspxtrack this site | 4 links cook your dinner on your PCcook your dinner on your PC 07/23/2004 09:27 AM Direct and Related Links for 'cook your dinner on your PC' I know it’s possible to cook on your car - but on your computer? Requires Flash….Dinner with BillDinner with Bill 07/30/2004 11:52 AM Jeff Maurone, an intern at Microsoft, shares his experience having dinner at Bill Gates' home. Further and further you descend, past what seems to be an annex library, as it was certainly not the primary librarian that houses the Leicester Codex (Bill's original DaVinci notebook, for which he paid approx $30.8 million). Elegantly non-intrusive but screaming geekhood were sparsely placed digital canvases that, ever so often, changed the artwork on the wall. We passed the movie theatre, rumored to be the most advanced movie theatre in the world. Finally, we reached the bottom level of the entertaining portion of the home. To the left was a room with a design so powerful that it could only exist in the home of the richest man in the world. After hearing about the security surrounding the house and the amount of work Bill does, it makes me appreciate the ability to sit on my back porch, eat a popsicle, and watch the sun set. Click here to comment on this entry Geek Dinner ThanksGeek Dinner Thanks 01/16/2004 10:59 AM Thanks much to the 20 or so geeks who came out to The House of Orient last night for the Geek Dinner. I snapped a few pics that didn't come out terribly well. Oh, and you'll see a few folks have already pinged the original post with TrackBacks to their write-ups too. As others have noted, most folks seemed to know fewer than 4 or 5 other people there, so there were a lot of interesting discussions. Several folks... Dinner with Joe GrandDinner with Joe Grand 02/05/2005 09:26 PM Mark Frauenfelder:  I had the pleasure of having hardware
hacker Joe Grand come to
my house for dinner last night. (He was in town to appear on G4 TechTV
to talk about his new book, Game Console Hacking.) He showed me a bunch of
his amazing electronic projects, which I'll be mentioning soon on Make's new blog.
Joe also told me about his cross country trip to relocate from Boston to San Diego, and he pointed me to his journal about the trip. It's a fun read, and I love this picture he took of a cool UFO house in Chattanooga, TN. Link The bl0gger who came to dinnerThe bl0gger who came to dinner 02/06/2005 01:09 AM If you were going to invite 10 bloggers for dinner, whom would you invite? John, of J-Walk Blog decided to start this new parlor game for bloggers. I tripped across it in the 1/31/05 post on Reality Carnival. It's a pretty good way to find the bloggers that the most fascinating bloggers find most fascinating. (Did that make sense?) The best bloggers define their own personal Best of the Web. [Warning- proceed only if you have several hours to kill!] The Gadget That Came to DinnerThe Gadget That Came to Dinner 06/17/2005 03:54 PM A small $49.95 egg-shaped gadget called Powerseed is designed to slow down eaters and improve eating patterns. Inbl0gger DinnerInbl0gger Dinner 06/01/2004 02:09 PM This week I'm attending and speaking at Inbox Event, all about email. There's a few bloggers attending, about about if we self-organize a blogger dinner? Thursday at 6pm, we'll walk from the San Jose Marriott to a reasonable place downtown.... Dinner and a MovieDinner and a Movie 03/13/2003 10:17 AM Only recently have I begun to truly realize that the King of Thai Noodle House near our house is really... Dinner with AdamDinner with Adam 05/04/2004 03:42 AM On my last night in Amsterdam for this trip, I had dinner with Adam Curry at a meat house that reminded me of a bar in Mazomanie, WI, many many years ago. We had meat and beer. So did everyone else. It's really interesting walking around Amsterdam with Adam, who is a very famous person here. People stare at him. Ask for his autograph. I get some of the reflected glory, who is that guy with the rock star? It's a pretty unusual thing for me. Anyway, we talked about next things to do. It was good to get some one-on-one time with Adam this trip. Now it's off the Schipol, the Amsterdam airport, to go back to Boston, and whatever adventures await me there. San Diego Dinner AnyoneSan Diego Dinner Anyone 11/18/2003 03:32 AM I will be in San Diego tomorrow/today Tuesday the 18th thru mid-day on the 20th and after the success of... My Dinner With FlickrMy Dinner With Flickr 03/22/2005 05:01 PM Xeni Jardin: 
Boing Boing reader Ranjit Bhatnagar loves the internet photo-sharing
service Flickr so much, he cooked up an homage in polenta. "I'd love
to say it's in honor of Flickr's acquisition (or consumption?) by
Yahoo, but unfortunately I was a day early," the chef says.
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ahoo! bought Flickr!,
Polenta Twinkie,
Scan, then blog each week's pick from the farmer's market Geeks Without BordersGeeks Without Borders 02/17/2003 01:19 PM The next time you see a strange street sign in your neighborhood, it might just be a prop in someone else's entertainment, and the next Google search results ... Geeks are not as outnumbered as they
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