GeekDinner

Late notice, but the next GeekDinner, Naughty Naartjie is coming up on Tuesday 26th May at Neighborhood in Long Street. Be there 6:30 for 7pm.

Please sign up on the wiki if you want to come, and remove your name if you can’t. This is a small venue and can only hold 60 people at the maximum.

If you haven’t already, mark your willingness to eat meat with a “Moo” on the wiki.

See you there!

Welcome to 2009! Only 347 sleeps until Christmas! I hope that everybody has made lots of New Years Resolutions that they will utterly fail to stick to, leading to an inevitable spiral of self-recrimination and depression, culminating in total loss of faith in oneself and expensive therapy for months.

Moving on, I have good news: after this month, the Cape Town GeekDinner will have been held every two months for two solid years! We held the first one at Barbarellas in Constantia, in March of 2007,
and we’ve been going ever since. To celebrate, we’re going to have a GeekDinner, and we’re going to have it on the 29th of January, at Yum in Vredehoek, starting at 6:30 for 7.

After some heated discussions involving lentils, and Cape Town’s alleged reputation for laziness, we decided to call the dinner “Lucky Litchi” – you can see all the other details on the wiki page, as
usual.

Please go sign up if you want to come, and remove your name if you can’t; the venue can only hold 50 people, so please make sure the list accurately reflects whether you can come or not. We’re also, as
ever, looking for speakers, so if you’ve got something you want to talk about, add it to the wiki!

Hope to see you there!

Announcing the tenth Cape Town GeekDinner. Funnily enough, even though September is the ninth month, the name is Latin for “seventh month” – the Romans named the actual seventh month after Julius Caesar. On the subject of names, we’ve decided to call this one “Jubilant Jujube”, which can refer both to those little chewy sweets, and to the Chinese date tree.

Here are the details:
Date: Monday, 29th September,
Time: 18:00 for 18:30,
Place: Asoka, on Kloof Street

See the wiki for more info.

Another GeekDinner has come and gone, and we want to thank everybody who came and made it the success that it was. We had a huge turnout, and we’re getting loads of new people coming – this is great, and it’s thanks to the community that makes these things happen.

Secondly, we’d like to thank Sloppy Sam’s for hosting us, and putting up with the rather special demands that GeekDinner imposes on a venue. Huge thanks also go out to Stormhoek for providing us with some excellent wine – it’s always nice to have you at a party!

Finally, of course, we want to thank all the speakers who volunteered their time and energy to speak to us about what they’re passionate about. Thanks to you all, and we hope to see you at the next dinner.