Category: Fun stuff

Random fun things

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Charleston’s emerging tech community

Not emerging in the sense of new, but emerging in the sense of not being hidden away anymore, individuals coming out of isolation and discovering that “Yes, there are more of us here!”

Did I miss any?

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Thanksgiving on the beach

On the beach at Surf City, NC

A giant of a turkey from Keegan-Filion Farm in Walterboro. At 12 kg (27lb), one of the biggest turkeys I’ve ever roasted. This bad boy was in the oven 5 hours before it was done.

Apparently it was too cold for everybody else. While everybody ate inside, I was enjoying my Thanksgiving dinner out on the balcony overlooking the beach. It was pretty nice out there.

The dogs couldn’t join in the festivities at the beach house, but I made sure they all had a good time

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Canadian meetup

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.

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BarcampCHS 2 success!

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!

BarcampCHS robot

(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.

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Pizza in Charleston Trip on Gowalla

Explore some of the local pizza joints with my Pizza in Charleston trip on Gowalla.

Thanks to Chrys for the idea.