Reflections on the NYC Geek Dinner

As I write this, Peter and I are holed up, once again, in Mendy's Deli in New York City. The rain is coming down pretty heavily, so even though we finished with our meals a little while ago, we intend on staying until they throw us out. We enjoyed the food and atmosphere so much at last night's Geek Dinner, we thought we would come back for dinner tonight. Oh, and I must add, the Matzoh Ball soup is to die for, I absolutely love it!

At the dinner last night, I was fortunate to meet many interesting people. The first was Buzz Bruggeman, of Active Words. We had spoken via messenger and phone before about various techie things, from Vonage, to Audible, to Active Words. It was great to finally meet him in person. I also met DonXML. I'll be honest, I really didn't understand a lot of what he and Chris Hollander were talking about. However, I have to give them credit, they were incredibly nice to a mini-geek like myself. 

Oh, and of course there's Robert Scoble. I had heard all sorts of things about him. I expected there to be some type of shrine set up at the dinner, hee hee just kidding. Robert was really cool though and spoke about all sorts of things techie in ways that I understood about 47% of the time. Hey, I'm learning! Scoble's blog is really interesting, I plan on adding his Rss feed to my NewsGator, which should bring me to 11 subscriptions (see I WILL catch up to your 1400 at some point, Robert!).

I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot of other names and faces that I've met, but needless to say, I had a wonderful time at my first Geek dinner. I really thought that it was going to be a slightly uncomfortable social situation, given that a) I'm a baby geek and don't get much, and b) I'm female, and didn't think there would be too many of those there. But everyone was really nice, I learned a lot, and even saw a few women. I look forward to the next dinner...more east coast get togethers please!