THANK YOU MIKE!! Huge thanks to that force of nature: Stopforth wentforth and magicked up a brilliant evening for the Jozi geeks to map their network offline.
Big smiles and lots of surprised people, whose illusions/delusions of what geekery is,
have been soundly smashed. It rocked.
Mike & I are now veterans of the SA Geek Dinner scene, and give bountiful thanks to Graham Knox of Stormhoek Wines for starting the meme (you’re a legend dude!) along with the blogging behemoth Hugh MacLeod (Gaping Void) for making it sooo sexycool to get out from behind our screens and play realtime : where LOL actually has an associated sound component.
I was completely staggered by the fact that right at the moment I’d been waiting for all damn week - the Seth Godin surprise (the real Free Prize Inside of this event) - I went to pee.. charming. (thank you Mike for the replay mate.. and respect to Seth for potent inspiration that gave us renewed fire under our broeks!) Especially love Seth because of Small is the New Big meme - if you’ve ever met me you’ll know why :-P
Met so many bloody brilliant beings, and reconnected with buds that I haven’t seen in ages who I seriously digg: From dazzling mate Christof & his real sillybilly (yes I do mean boy-goat) story that celebrated South African quirkiness to the sobering strength of storyteller supremo Aiden; the incisive clarity of Gabi the sharp brutha (sorry I didn’t get to chat more to you, and Adriano); Roger the macgeek who introduced me to young visionary Thando, and assaulted by Jacques who tagged me a hippie (hahaha.. I only wish!); all too briefly pinged Heinrich; my bud Mark (who was 1 of the surprised fellows that we geeks don’t look like troglodytes); readjusted the Scott awhile by asserting the fact that I’m actually a girl version; blazed by Metacognitive Carl (you’re a keeper bru!); rapped about nanotech, RPG’s, math, arcane Egyptian philosophy and other scruptious brainsnacks with Andrew; am determined to discover more about leadership with George; got lots of love from the irrepressible Tumi; did the quick connect-in with the Missing Links who I think looked at the rest of us pretty disdainfully.. but went to their office next day and was blown away - you guys are too damn cool for school, especially Rich who may well be one of the scarysmartest peops I’ve met in a while (if you get a chance, wangle your way to their playspace you wont be disappointed)..
I missed my Cape Town geeks madly.. maybe we come up with a crazyass way to do this gig in the air next time. Thanks to all of you for making me feel so welcome back in gold-veined Jozi.. I loved it, and think I may actually have been well-behaved this time!
The beginning of many outstanding collaborative projects will emerge, like BarCamp, from this dinner. I’ve seen the power of loosly banding brilliant people with brave ideas together and allowing for freeplay; which is why my impassioned rant was heartfelt >> go explore beyond your boundaries and discover that there are many more wild ones out there to support your own crazy ideas than you ever imagined.
PS. hugest thanks to my mate Dee (fellow F8r, beautiful, brilliant friend and generally outstanding being) who marvelled at the bright jozigeek (jeek - thx Mike) mindsparkings (we’ll make a geek of her yet!)
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