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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.
For [...]

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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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The kick-off Philly Geek Dinner will be at National Mechanics. I haven’t been there before, so looking forward to checking it out. Post on Upcoming or Eventful so we get a feel for the number of people.
National Mechanics - 22 South 3rd Street - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - www.nationalmechanics.com

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Having some fun with the iPod Nike+ and Nokia GPS at the same time while running down to the John Kelly statue along the Schuylkill. While stretching decided to shoot a quick video (didn’t Qik).
The results for the Nike+ are extremely accurate. Since the iPod measures pauses, I believe both devices were pretty much in [...]

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I picked up the Nokia N82 yesterday from Import GSM, a great hybrid brick-and-mortage / online store. Think Dynamism for phones. It was my first visit, right at closing, and despite trying to get stuff out the door for the evening shipment the guys helped out with descriptions and subtle nuances between the [...]

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