May LunchGeeks was fun!
Had a great lunch at La Fiesta (man, Grandma’s Sauce, or enjococado, is amazing) with some fellow geeks yesterday. We talked about all sorts of stuff, from Cambrian House, to Wordpress, branding and naming new companies, PHP vs Ruby on Rails, etc. Once again, we had someone who was just starting a brand-new company, this time related to building a market for services, which was really cool. I love hearing about new stuff.
We got to play with an awesome new pocket camera, too, an Olympus Stylus 770 SW. The thing is waterproof (to 33ft!), and shockproof (the owner had dropped it on hard cement, no problems). It has digital image stabilization, which I’m always leery of (I prefer optical), but the rest of the camera was so cool, I definitely need to play with one more. We’ve been so focused on SLRs here at the office lately (our latest favorite? The Fuji S5 paired up with a Nikon 18-200mm VR lens) that I’ve gotten behind on small cameras. We took some photos with it, but since the camera isn’t mine, I don’t know where they’ll end up. I’ll link them if I find out.
Oh, and one girl had a great Darth Vader t-shirt I’d love to get my hands on. Unfortunately, I’m so bad with names, I’ve forgotten it already. If you’re reading this, can you email me or comment where you got it?
I’ll pick a date for the June one ASAP so people have a little more time to prepare. Sorry for the late notice last time. ![]()
May 28th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Don,
Sounded great. I was in SF for Facebook, but here was my contribution to PHP vs. Ruby on Rails.
May 28th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Oh yeah, The Fuji S5 Pro and image stabilization.
June 3rd, 2007 at 10:44 am
hey there! Good to be twitter friends, I see
It was me, (jessica mah) and my darth vader t-shirt friend Laura Byrne. Feel free to email her - adoris@gmail.com
The shirt came from threadless.com - oOo gotta love threadless!
June 7th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Hey Don! grandma’s sauce was awesome.
Great to hear from you. The picture of us four is up on flickr.
I wish the camera was waterproof up to 33 feet, but it’s only waterproof till 10 feet. It’s still greatly useful. For me the biggest advantage of that camera is its tiny size, people sometimes don’t even notice when they’re being photographed!
Hope you’re doing well.
June 12th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
You guys planning on anything for June? I’ll take a couple of people with me.