Category Archives: Sexy Events

Being an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley

I attended a panel at a University of Illinois alumni dinner the other night and had the fortune of seeing Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) interview Max Levchin (Slide), Jawed Karim (YouTube) and Scott Banister (Zivity) about various entrepreneurial topics. I recorded about 30 minutes of it, but here are the first two questions summarized and the [...]

DEFCON 16 Report

Last weekend I stepped into a swirling vortex of geek. I went to my first DEFCON (Cyan’s 12th), which happened to be across the street from the Star Trek Convention.
I had no idea, really, what to expect at DEFCON 16. It is one of the largest conventions of hackers in the world, self-described as “underground.” [...]

Money for me, Databases for you.

Cianna and I both went to DEFCON 16 and we had a blast. I’ve been going to DEFCON for 12 years and my reasons change for going year to year based on what I’m doing for a living, but no matter what, I always have a good time. This year I didn’t attend any of [...]

Laughing Squid Lucky 13 Party

It is never too late to cover an event, right? Even if it is half a month late?
The Laughing Squid party was definitely the geek event of the month of May - at least in San Francisco. It was a celebration of 13 years of Laughing Squid - a blog/list of all things art, culture [...]

The girls of io9

In my ongoing quest to find newer and sexier geekdom, I attended a meet-up for the members of io9.com - the 6 month young science fiction themed blog from gawker Media. It was held at The Magician Bar on a Wednesday night.
I had not previously read io9, but was going to meet up with Editor [...]

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