Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Random fun things
Got to do something I don’t get to do a lot of here in Charleston: meet other Canadians!
Thanks to the new Canadians in the South meetup group, I got to meet a few more of my people this evening. The meetup was supposed to take place at Moe’s Crosstown Tavern, but apparently they’re closed for renovations, so we ended up meeting at Charleston Beer Works instead. Had a good time meeting and talking to people. There were 7 people so it wasn’t a huge group.
Looking forward to future meetups.
It looks like Barcamp Charleston was another resounding success. Lots of hard work was put in by the organizers and there were lots of happy people everywhere I went today. Learned lots of things, met lots of people and put more faces to Twitter names.
Thanks to Baked for providing all the delicious breakfast noms!
(This is not Baked breakfast noms. This is BarcampCHS robot)
There were something like 60 proposed sessions, all of which I think got scheduled.
All the sessions I went to were pretty good. Probably the most interesting one was the Google Q&A session where a couple folks from Google’s Berkley County data center answered a bunch of Google related questions.
The ham radio session I went to was really interesting too. Learned a lot about what it takes to get into ham radio.
BarcampCHS was yet another awesome learning experience. Charleston could use more events like this to give people more chances to get their geek on and meet other people to do that with.
Explore some of the local pizza joints with my Pizza in Charleston trip on Gowalla.
Thanks to Chrys for the idea.
I decided to sign up for the fall Ambrose Farms CSA and made my first pick up today (after lunching on a very delicious crab cake platter at the cafe).
CSA pick-up at the Stono Market turns out to be a pretty simple process. All the items are laid out for you, and coloured tags tell you how many of each item you can pick based on the share size you purchased.
This was today’s haul
Seems like a pretty good haul for a 1 person share. There’s zucchini and yellow squash, eggplant, a couple of sweet potatoes, a couple of jalapeno peppers, acorn, patty pan and delicati squashes, a pumpkin and popcorn on the cob. I even got a re-usable bag to carry away all my stuff in.
The zucchini and yellow squash are pretty huge. Mutant huge, at least compared to what I’m used to. I just happened to have a zucchini from Publix in the fridge that I hadn’t used yet.
The Ambrose Farms zucchini is on the top. The bottom one is (obviously) the Publix zucchini.
It’s going to be fun figuring out what to do with all this stuff.
My latest order of Geek Soap arrived today!
The d20 massage soap is my favourite. There’s Android soap, Trek soap, arc reactor soap, and a wee little game cartridge soap.
Thanks Lesley!
