Come to the Free Geek Fair tomorrow! (Platial News and Neogeography)

UPDATE ...Touche! http://platial.com/post/50888 Free Geek is at 1731 Southeast 10th Avenue, Portland, OR, 97214

Admit it, even in Portland there is nothing more fun than the annual Free Geek fair. Here's a taste- and also I'll be on a panel about the future of technology Free Geek style. So please come and heckle me, Brian Jamison from Open Sourcery and others!

Geek Fair is Free Geek's annual street fair celebrating our volunteers, staff, like-minded organizations, and reuse & recycling.

Music to cross-channel your capacitors to:
Loch Berlin - Punk / Experimental / Shoegaze @ 1pm The Scree - Rockin' awesome @ 2pm Tom Wunderlich - Folk / Acoustic @ 3pm Paper Cameras - New Wave / Garage / Punk @ 4:10pm 40 Hundred Thousand Locked Up Guns - Punk / Electro/ Indie @ 6pm

Extra exotic flavahs:
Geek Arena - Our annual game show of esoteric knowledge hosted by "The Dave" Haskins @ 2:40 and 3:40. Smashtacular - Hate techonology? So do we! But we love recycling. Take this opportunity to combine these feelings in an orgy of techno destruction! LAN Party - Backspace, the cool kids from Oldtown show off their high speed comptuers and games. Big screen vids Kazum! - Acrobalance and style mixed with feats of strength and more style! @ 5:20pm. Moe and Edweena's Magical Variety Show @ 5:10pm. Fashion show - Fashion divas have nothing on us, local designers are here to freek out with their geek out. @ 4:50pm Zoobomb mini bike mayhem - We've got the brains, they've got the brawn. Let's make lots of funny. Jugglers - Watch as they amaze the kids, and join in as they play with the pins. They're geeky jugglers, and they like to share. Food! - from Redwing Cafe, Veggielicious, burritos, and Staccato Gelato. Booths! - People's Food Co-Op, Scrap, Red and Black Cafe, Personal Telco, and more. Dunk Tank - It's hot. Help that nerd cool off. Bike-powered smoothies - People-powered and yummy. Comedy! - The bar will feed you beer from Full Sail and laughs from these fine folks. Starts @ 5pm. Tarot card readings - Need to communicate with a lost file? Connect with the spirits of term papers long gone? Linux clinic - Our geeks may be able to help you help yourself. Futurecast - a panel of industry professionals consider the future of technology, and its implications on society. Brian Jamison - Open Sourcery Founder and CEO Richard Seymour - The Man Behind the Curtin Di-Ann Eisnor - Platial Co-Founder with special nerderific mystery guest! Compact Disk toss - One part Ultimate frisbee, one part Disks of Tron. Hard Drive Shuffleboard - Who can most accuratly skid these massive quantities of data?

Extra exotic flavahs:

Geek Arena - Our annual game show of esoteric knowledge hosted by "The Dave" Haskins @ 2:40 and 3:40.
Smashtacular - Hate techonology? So do we! But we love recycling. Take this opportunity to combine these feelings in an orgy of techno destruction!
LAN Party - Backspace, the cool kids from Oldtown show off their high speed comptuers and games.
Big screen vids
Kazum! - Acrobalance and style mixed with feats of strength and more style! @ 5:20pm.
Moe and Edweena's Magical Variety Show @ 5:10pm.
Fashion show - Fashion divas have nothing on us, local designers are here to freek out with their geek out. @ 4:50pm
Zoobomb mini bike mayhem - We've got the brains, they've got the brawn. Let's make lots of funny.
Jugglers - Watch as they amaze the kids, and join in as they play with the pins. They're geeky jugglers, and they like to share.
Food! - from Redwing Cafe, Veggielicious, burritos, and Staccato Gelato.
Booths! - People's Food Co-Op, Scrap, Red and Black Cafe, Personal Telco, and more.
Dunk Tank - It's hot. Help that nerd cool off.
Bike-powered smoothies - People-powered and yummy.
Comedy! - The bar will feed you beer from Full Sail and laughs from these fine folks. Starts @ 5pm.
Tarot card readings - Need to communicate with a lost file? Connect with the spirits of term papers long gone?
Linux clinic - Our geeks may be able to help you help yourself.
Futurecast - a panel of industry professionals consider the future of technology, and its implications on society.
- Brian Jamison - Open Sourcery Founder and CEO
- Richard Seymour - The Man Behind the Curtin
- Di-Ann Eisnor - Platial Co-Founder
- with special nerderific mystery guest!
Compact Disk toss - One part Ultimate frisbee, one part Disks of Tron.
Hard Drive Shuffleboard - Who can most accuratly skid these massive quantities of data?