PDC: Parties by geeks, for geeks

It's good to be with ones own kind

from JoeUser Forums

The night life of PDC is quite enjoyable. Picture a bunch of tech nerds being able to get together and talk shop without any spouse or significant other around to give them the "Would you QUIT talking about that stuff?" look.  I have pictures which I'll put up on the photo album soon enough.

Nate & Ed from Betanews, Mary Jo Foley from Microsoft-Watch, Robert Scoble, Scott from Tom's hardware, myself, and a few others had a good time talking shop at the press party.  I missed the PDC Underground party and while I did finally snag an invite to the very posh "Influencer's" party, I was too tired after the press party to get over there.

According to Scoble, tomorrow morning something very interesting about Virtual Earth will be announced.  Something very "newsworthy".  My prediction: Virtual Earth will be able to pinpoint where all my lost socks are (or the socks of whoever is logged in on it).  We'll see.

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Next time take me and I can attend those parties for you and report back.

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Sounds fun!

I seem to be one of the lucky few geeks whose wife is also a geek: I'm a sysadmin for a very large datacenter; she's an SA for a small web hosting company.

So most of our conversations end up being "shop talk" anyway. We just started a CCNA course together, which is fun. It's nice being married to the best lab partner you could find for the subject you're studying.

So... would I be allowed to bring my SO to an event like this?
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I visit channel 9 a lot, I wonder if I have already heard about the stuff to do with Virtual Earth. Its pretty neat all the stuff they are working on with it.