Sol Young

Today’s video, shot on the way in to work at the falls behind the Philadelphia Art Museum. It’s one of the more beautiful locations in the city.
Geek Dinner:

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Today we went for some property tours close to Center City in the Callowhill area (between Spring Garden and the Vine Street Expressway and between Broad and Columbus).
If you think rents and purchase prices are tumbling everywhere, you might be mistaken. Philadelphia is still a good buy and has great rent vs. buy ratios (coming [...]

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Last night was the first Philadelphia Geek Dinner. I went in with no expectations and would have labeled it a success if two people joined for a good meal and intelligent conversation.
But there were ten of us at our table. We shared in good drink, good food, intellectually stimulating conversation, and all of us were [...]

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A reminder to those with short memories - tomorrow is the Philly Geek Dinner. Look forward to good food and good drinks while meeting up with Philly’s tech community.
Put your name in on the Upcoming or Facebook group.
7pm at National Mechanics: 22 South 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106

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If you haven’t been to National Mechanics, you need to go. In fact, you should go this Thursday at 7:00pm so you can join the Philadelphia Geek Dinner first meetup (RSVP on Upcoming). I got to spend some time hanging with Jason, an owner of the place, and I’m stoked this is the kick-off location.
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Had an awesome day - time to share!

12seconds.tv/channels/solyoung
First 12second introduction
TechCrunch link
WCU post

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Alvin Ashcraft (@alashcraft) put out the idea to create a Facebook group around the geek dinner concept; so I ran with it. The Facebook group is Philly Geek Dinner. Sign up there (or here, here, or just show up here).
A quick additional tidbit. Jason Hill from National Mechanics dropped me a DM and they’re looking [...]

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