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.
Fungi.
Get it?
Hahahaha!
I slay me sometimes 🙂
From this morning on my walk in to work
Calvin and Jared have started working towards setting up a BarCamp in Charleston.
BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event.
BarCamp is all about the participants. It’s the participants that give talks and presentations on stuff they know about. It’s about sharing the stuff you know with others who have similar interests or want to find out about what you’re talking about. If you’ve ever watched a large group of people, you’ll inevitably see small groups of people form together. Typically those in the groups are connected by a common factor (friends, interests, etc). Others are just joining in on the conversation. That’s more or less what a BarCamp is, only with a little more (but not much) structure and organization. It can be organized around a theme or particular topic, or just one big free-for-all. Most importantly,
Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join. When you come, be prepared to share with barcampers. When you leave, be prepared to share it with the world.
There’s a meeting tomorrow (July 22) at the Muddy Waters West Ashley for the initial planning meeting. Come along if you’re intersted in helping to organize Charleston’s first Barcamp! You can also keep up with what’s happening with the BarCamp on Twitter and Facebook.
Organizing a photowalk can be a lot of work. Yesterday was the Worldwide Photowalk, with photowalks organized in 900 locations. I helped put together the Charleston, SC photowalk which turned out to be a resounding success. Had about 45 people show up for the photowalk, and I think we even picked up a few people along the way. Had a great time wandering around the peninsula taking pictures and meeting fellow photography enthusiasts.
The day started off pretty nice, but started to get pretty warm towards the end of the walk. I finished off the day with close to 150 photos that I eventually culled down to 111 which I posted in my photo gallery.
This one turned out to be one of my favourites. At Elliot St and Bedon’s Alley, there’s a shell of an old building that now serves as a parking lot. I was in there looking around and saw this through one of the windows.
The top of the Cumberland parkade offered some pretty good views as well.
Quite happy with the way the photowalk turned out. I’ll have to try to find some time to organize more of them.
Today’s LowcountryBBQ meatup at Hickory Hawg was pretty well attended and turned out to be a big family affair. I got there a little after 6 thinking I’d be early, but everybody was there already.
Unlike the last few BBQ places, Hickory Hawg isn’t a buffet style place. You walk up to the counter, pick something from the menu (and they’re pretty flexible about letting you pick and choose) and when it’s ready they’ll bring your food out to you.
I ordered the Hickory Hawg platter for $8 and change, which is a big heaping serving of BBQ pork and two sides (I got the hash and baked beans).
The pork was pretty tasty; really good all by itself, but made even better with a little of their sauce, a slightly vinegary tomato based sauce. You can even buy some of their sauce to take home with you.
The platter is just a bigger version of a plate, and is a pretty substantial amount of food. If you’re really, really hungry, the platter is the way to go. Otherwise you might want to stick with the plate version for $5 and change. Regardless of which one you get, the prices at Hickory Hawg make the place a terrific value.
I’ll have to go back another day and try out the ribs. They looked pretty good too.
