Archive for October, 2006

Liquefaction

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Feeling like a GeekSouth traitor, I spent my Tuesday evening in Asheville at Liquefaction, their Media Arts Project “mixer” with Meet the Geeks, the Asheville GeekChap. The drive over the hill was refreshing, gorgeous Fall colors everywhere and miles and miles of live, 3D panoramas. When I got out of the car in [...]

Directions to On 5th

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Hello everyone. Ryan emailed Ben and me today to let us know that he was having trouble finding directions to On 5th online. At first, I thought it could be due to some confusion that’s arisen about the spelling (it’s On 5th, with a five, not spelled out), but no, they just aren’t [...]

Too Cool - Just Out

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

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Geeks and Artists

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

What do you get when you put a bunch of geeks together in a restaurant with WIFI? Contrary to popular belief, geeks are social animals too! We just spout acronyms and URLs and have to have a net-connected laptop within arms-reach to show off our latest discoveries. If you haven’t experienced [...]

Free Wi-Fi Map

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

I added a map today to the blog in our quest to find free Wi-Fi. We now have a new map page that uses Community Walk to plot the locations on a Google Map. Below is a map that includes wireless hotspots in the Tri-Cities. If you know of any, please add them to the [...]

October Geeks

Friday, October 6th, 2006

The next geeksouth dinner will be October 24th at 7 pm at On Fifth in Bristol. Besides the usual birds-of-a-feather geek stuff we do, the focus is the 5 minute battle of the OS’s.

In a statement to the world press, GeekSouth founder Jose Castillo said: “Bring your pimped out operating system and take [...]