Posts with keyword: dinner

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Hearing Alan Kay

Tue Feb 21 10:45:00 2006

Alan Kay is giving the Organick Lecture at the University of Utah on Thursday. It's actually two lectures, one in the afternoon on "computer science" and "software engineering" and on in the evening on the $100 laptop. I'm planning on going to both. If you're interested in riding with me, I've got four seats--first come, first serve. I'll be leaving BYU at 2:15. Since I'm planning on staying for both lectures, I won't be home until late. If you're already in Salt Lake, it would be fun to get some people together for dinner in between the lectures. Say
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Geek Dinner Tonight

Tue Jan 17 07:05:00 2006

There's a geek dinner tonight in Sandy. The discussion topic will be geek law. Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to make it.
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Geek Dinner Report and Pictures

Thu Dec 1 21:02:00 2005

December's Geek Dinner at Los Hermanos I have a few pictures from last night's geek dinner. My talk went pretty well, but the Internet was out just when I was talking (worked before and after), so some of the demos I wanted to show involved some handwaving. One of the hardest questions to answer on microformats is "why would I want to do that?" Reminds me of XML in 1998. The place was packed--well over 60 people. Phil Burns did a good job of running the dinner and keeping everything humming. Pete Ashdown was there and got a loud round
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