A geek dinner
Posted in News on: Wednesday, February 1, 2006 by Paul Boag
Well after desperately trying to avoid being called a geek for years, it looks like I am going to have to embrace the title, as Ian Forrester from geekdinners.co.uk throws a bash in honour of boagworld.com. Please come along, and save me from being a sad guy in a pub by myself.
If you haven’t heard of geek dinners before then make sure you check out their website. Basically every once in a while Ian arranges a get together for a well known geek and invites loads of other like minded techies along. Previous VIP guests include the likes of Molly, Dave Shea (founder of Zen Gardens) and Tim O’reilly so I am feeling very much out of my league. For some bizarre reason Ian is of the opinion that boagworld.com is popular enough to attract a crowd! How little he knows. Nevertheless, the ego boost of being invited was too tempting to turn down and so I have rashly accepted the invite.
It is on Thursday 23rd February between 7pm and midnight at The Polar Bear just off of London’s Leicester Square.
Since agreeing to go I have had reoccurring nightmares of sitting in a big empty room with only Marcus to keep me company (I don’t seem to be able to get rid of the guy). Please don’t let my nightmare come true! If you live in the UK (or are such a fan of boagworld that you’re willing to fly over!) then please come along. There is food, alcohol and I promise not to talk too much. Best of all it’s a cheap night out, so there is really no excuse not to come.
It is on Thursday 23rd February between 7pm and midnight at The Polar Bear just off of London’s Leicester Square.
If you want to come, just pop along to geekdinners and leave a comment saying you’ll be there. Alternatively if you are after more details drop Ian an email.
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Oi… I could leave you to sit there on your own :)
I hope you get a big crowd, it sounds like fun. Sadly I’m not enough of a rich jetsetter to pop over so someone will have to put up photos on Flickr so I don’t fell all sad and left out :o)
Hmmm, well I am up in Lancaster, UK for the next six months and I am a big fan of your site. Perhaps I could figure out a way to stop by!
Well that is a bit of a journey Scott but it would be great to see you.
I WISH I could go, but alas, I am in CT in the USA. Oh well, have fun and I’ll be with you in spirit.
Don’t worry Paul, you won’t be alone. Expect a nice friendly crowd of people to ask you questions and talk about webdesign with you. I’ll certainly have some questions for you after listening to the latest podcast.
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Please leave a comment on Geek Dinner to let us know who’s coming ;)
Now you are making me nervous Ian lol… what did I say in my last podcast that has left you with questions? Was I making stuff up again! lol
don’t worry, it was just a question about flash
Anyone from the Portsmouth area going? I’d like to go but the train situation is not good.
Well, I managed to get there by train in the end, and it wasn’t too bad (though I had to change trains at one station as the horn had frozen!)
…the return journey fortunately didn’t take 6 hours as it possibly could have done, which is good.
Everyone was really friendly there. The night had such a good atmosphere.
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