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Things I learned at the Nashville Geek Breakfast
More than sixty local techies shoehorned themselves into Noshville Thursday for the December Nashville Geek Breakfast, which is now officially celebrating one year in existence. This beloved gathering may still be in diapers, but it’s clearly taking off like gangbusters. Here are a few things I didn’t know before I darkened the door yesterday morning:
- You (apparently) can’t fry something enough for southerners’ tastes: They aren’t on the menu at Noshville, but culinary geniuses elsewhere have created deep-fried bacon and bacon burritos. (Yes, the bacon replaces the tortilla in the burrito. They really have thought of everything now.) Is there anything left to deep fry now?
- I knew Andy was a geek–and I mean that in a good way–before I arrived this morning, but now everyone else does, too.
- Justin maintains the many Web functions running at Upper Room Ministries, and he can walk to his office from Noshville. That means parking is much easier. Upper Room is an initiative of the United Methodist Publishing House.
- Jason is right: If you live in West Nashville and there’s a wreck on I-40, you’re not getting to downtown anytime soon. West End and Charlotte Avenue aren’t much help when everyone wants to use them as an alternate route.
- Jason also played cards by candlelight in Atlanta during Earth Hour last year, when practically the whole city went dark for 60 minutes in support of energy conservation. You may have already heard this, but Nashville is a flagship city for Earth Hour in 2009. (Ok, work hat off now. My employer is helping to promote this very worthy cause.)
- Sharon Cole’s company makes kickass table tennis robots that can shoot ping pong balls at you at 75 miles an hour. How long until they take over the world?
I’m astounded that it’s already been a year since the first Geek Breakfast. We’ve had a lot of fun during that time, as you can see from the photos, and now we’ve added a little philanthropy to the mix. Hope to see you at a geek breakfast in 2009.
Note: Wandering Knoxvillian Scott Maentz, who joined us for breakfast yesterday and is contemplating an East Tennessee version of our beloved gathering, has also weighed in on his experiences among us.
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Things I learned at today’s Nashville Geek Breakfast
An overflow crowd gathered for today’s Nashville Geek Breakfast. Here are a few things I didn’t know before I darkened the door at Noshville this morning:
- Lizzie Keiper is homeschooling her senior year of high school, working at the Apple Store in Green Hills and going to see the first screening of Twilight tonight. (I’m tired just reading that.) She’s a big fan of Entourage (me, too).
- Anne rallies well despite not being a morning person and loves hot tea. She may or may not be in Kate’s doghouse. Anne runs her own business and loves Californication (me, too).
- David now works with Dave Delaney at Griffin Technology and used to work at Best Buy with Lizzie.
- Paul and David are pretty sure every season of 24 involves a nuclear bomb. (Sounds about right.)
- Most of us watch way too much TV, thanks primarily to our DVRs.
- Mitch found out what happens when you arrive late at a Geek Breakfast, and it involves a shoe horn and close proximity to lots of attendees. (As the parent of a newborn, at least Mitch has a really good excuse.)
It was good to see everyone as usual. See you next time!
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Things I learned at the Nashville Geek Breakfast
Yesterday’s installment of the Nashville Geek Breakfast was another fun morning of tech talk. Though ringleader Dave Delaney was absent while caring for a sick child, the large and rowdy group carried on and made the best of it. (We missed you, Dave. Hope the Delaney family gets well soon.) Here are a few things I didn’t know before I darkened the door at Noshville 24 hours ago:
- Paul Van Hoesen has spent a lot of time in distant lands, such as Germany, Holland and rural Tennessee. Regarding the last of those locales, Paul’s company is dedicated to extending broadband access beyond urban areas to help reduce the digital divide.
- If you’re ready to dismiss that divide as insignificant, don’t. Would you believe that none of the students in a high school class Paul addressed recently in a rural Tennessee county knew what a podcast was? No one. Only four of them owned an iPod. Considering that we’re talking about a group of teenagers here, that’s startling.
- Dolphini Networks is the reason why Barcamp Nashville was able to use the Sommet Center for its site location last weekend. As a Preds sponsor (thanks, guys!), Dolphini is free to use the team’s logo and colors in its promotions, but not the faces of its players. Thank the NHLPA for that last part.
- Based on the location of her hometown in Pennsylvania, Julie Moore is practically Amish. Considering that she drove to Noshville for yesterday’s breakfast and that she works for Dolphini, though, she probably isn’t.
- Kate O’Neill can go to sleep at 2 a.m. and still attend a breakfast meeting at 7:30 the same morning. That’s impressive.
- Bill Seaver did not drive to Noshville in a car covered in its entirety with Post-It notes. But if he had, he knows what company would take credit for the idea.
It was good to see everyone as usual. See you next time!
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Things I learned at the Nashville Geek Breakfast
Another fourth Thursday, another fun Nashville Geek Breakfast. Here are a few things I didn’t know before I darkened the door at Noshville this morning:
- Marcus owns what appeared to be a vintage “Yo! MTV Raps” T-shirt. (Wow.)
- Mitch is a new dad. (Congrats!)
- Jackson’s Statzen made TechCrunch’s top 150 out of 1,000 competing startups. (Nice work.)
- Chuck and I run in the same online circles, but not in the same direction, until now.
- Paul’s resume is better suited for a Twitter update than a resume, or so he claims.
- One way to make the trip from Alabama to Tennessee is via Arkansas, Ireland and Los Angeles. (Welcome, Ben.)
- BarCamp Nashville’s Web site is up and running. (Go register.)
Check out the photos from today’s breakfast. It was good to see everyone. See y’all next time.
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