tickling the ivories

tickling the ivories
Originally uploaded by jduty

Definitely doesn't get his musical ability from Dad, must be Mom.

A2Geeks.org

Being a geek and technology professional in the Ann Arbor area, it benefits me in multiple ways to have lots of people like me in the area. In an effort to try and create a society for geeks and people who want to employ geeks in this area a bunch of us have started A2Geeks.org. Please go check it out. If you are part of a professional group please register it and if you want to help we absolutely welcome it! We are currently planning 2 events I'm pretty excited about, both of which should be free. For both of them we are looking for speakers, organizers, sponsors, you name it.


The first is the annual ArbCamp 2008 on December 18.
http://www.a2geeks.org/display/geek/ArbCamp+08

ArbCamp is a spin off the famous "Bar Camp" idea, which is an "unconference". Its less about formal speakers and sessions and more about getting people interested in talking about various topics together. It will be at the fantiastic Spark Central, which should lend it self well to a nightly overflow to various bars in the area. Please go register yourself and your ideas.

The second is the first ever A2geek spring conference hopefully sometime in March of 2009.

http://www.a2geeks.org/display/geek/a2geeks+conference

This event is still very much in the planning phases so if you have ideas please help! We are hoping to secure big sponsors with big name speakers and some very well thoughtout sessions spanning many topics. Should be a great way to see what Ann Arbor has to offer professionally and geek wise.

Also, if your creative side is just itching to get out, partipicate in our logo design contest:

http://www.a2geeks.org/display/geek/a2geeks+logo+design+challenge

Rembering the warmer times

Sunday evening it started snowing and its been in the 30's ever sense. Not that its a bad thing, but as we start our 6 month winter, remember the good times ;)

Leader and his army

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Originally uploaded by jduty.

Halloween was great. Joshua got all dressed up and even let us put face paint on him. One of the many things we absolutely love about our neighborhood is the family involvement. All the families were outside and one of our neighbors even had a party, which was a lot of fun. Here is Joshua with two of his best friends, Katie and Alex (they are goth and rocker girls).