The Only Time I See My Portland Geek Buddies Is At Conferences
I’m at Gnomedex. Russ is here. We split the cost of a hotel room. Found a deal for $156 per night at the Warwick Hotel. Pretty good rate for a holiday weekend here in Seattle.
Seeing a bunch of old friends. I feel like my Dad. I remember him talking about all his buddies he’d see at conferences.
But Josh Bancroft said something tonight at the Gnomedex opening reception that made me pause.
He said how come us Portland geeks only see each other at conferences? Greg Hughes was there with us. He agreed. We should meet up more often in Portland.
And it looks like it may happen! We’re going to do a monthly geek dinner! Josh wrote a bit about it tonight. Yippee. Can’t wait. We’ll post about the first one, soon.
By the way, everyone is welcome at a geek dinner. Are we not at all geeks at heart? :-).
Portland has already had a nerd/geek dinner for a few years now… Rich Claussen is the man coordinating it… http://richhubbins.theclaussens.com/default.aspx