Dinner in Seattle was great

July 26, 2005 - 5:08pm — bmann

Well, Kris is mad at me because we're even farther behind in various projects, but I really wanted to fit this trip to Seattle in before going to OSCON in Portland next week.

Thanks to Chris for spending your Gnomie points on us at Chinoise, and happy birthday! I still don't get the term "pan asian"...

I keep thinking we should do more cross-border trips specifically to Seattle. Maybe Web 2.0 meetups every month, alternating between Seattle and Vancouver (and Bainbridge?).

After the jump, I'm just going to quote all of Scott Laird's post, since he nicely covered all the necessary links.

I’ll have to call this a personal first: I had dinner at Chinoise yesterday with a group of people that I’d never actually met in person before, all arranged at the last minute via blog trackbacks.

Besides finally meeting Boris, I got to meet Chris, Lee, Kris, Amanda, and a friend of Kris’s who’s name I’ve completely forgotten. Sorry. I’d never been to Chinoise before, but I’ll be back soon–great food, wonderful presented. The conversation was enjoyably geeky; Boris and I double-teamed Lee and Chris on the “you need a Nokia N91

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July 28, 2005 - 1:26am — Chris Pirillo (not verified)

Stuck with Verizon

Yeah, that's sexy... but I'm still a Verizon subscriber until next April. :P

July 29, 2005 - 12:54am — bmann

I'm tempted to do more GSM phone publicity

Something along the lines of "just say no to lock in". I've changed phones 3 times, and I still have the original SIM card and account.

Sure, there's the tricky little factor that in Canada, you can't yet switch your cell number between carriers, but there are actually aren't any other GSM providers, so I don't have to worry about it.

Still, at least no phone lock in....