Sad that I just posted about my fixed car and now I’m talking about it being broken! Yesterday I decided to take my little sister down to Philadelphia for the day and to meet some of my friends. Another friend of mine is in town visiting, so the plan was to swing by and pick […]
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Malls
May 24th, 2009 by pleia2
My sister’s flight finally came into PHL Friday night around 11:30, so by midnight we were taking 76 through the city to head back to my apartment. I had planned on pizza that evening, but arriving back around 1AM left us with the options of a local diner or Wawa. Wanting her to have the […]
Philadelphia Geeknic: Success!
April 20th, 2009 by pleia2
The first Geeknic, right here near Philadelphia, took place yesterday at Betzwood Park. We topped out at around 30 people, we invited folks from Ubuntu Pennsylvania, Ubuntu New Jersey, PLUG, PhillyGeek, PASUG, PACS, Temple ACM, a few other nearby LUGs and through advertising in the Freenode motd (yes, some people do read those!). We even […]
Upcoming Linux events near Philadelphia
April 18th, 2009 by pleia2
April 19, 2009: Philadelphia Geeknic 2009 @ Betzwood Park On March 31st PLUG member Jonathan Simpson and I had the following exchange: < JonathanD> pleia2: lets setup a geeknic < pleia2> geeknic? < JonathanD> geeknic < pleia2> define please < JonathanD> it’s a geeky picnic! < pleia2> oh :) The rest was history! I was […]
Philadelphia Flower Show
March 1st, 2009 by pleia2
Yesterday morning I met up with Stephen, Alisa and their mother to head over to the Members Preview day of the Philadelphia Flower Show. We hit Sam’s Coventry Diner prior for some breakfast and headed down to Philly around 11. I’d never been to the show before (which is billed as the biggest indoor flower […]
Philadelphia Bug Jam!
February 23rd, 2009 by pleia2
On Saturday the Philadelphia team of Ubuntu US Pennsylvania hosted our BugJam. PLUG member Art Alexion graciously offered us space at Resources for Human Development in great room with wired connections for the event, and access to a kitchen for our goodies. People started arriving around noon and we got things set up, retrieved the […]
UCP, US Teams, Ubuntu BugJam in Philly
February 7th, 2009 by pleia2
As many of my local friends can attest, I spent much of my January as a bit of a hermit. I made it out for a PLUG North meeting (great talk on zsh by Paul Snyder), but otherwise spent a lot of time hanging in. February is shaping up to be a more active month. […]
Going International!
January 24th, 2009 by pleia2
Every year the world seems smaller to me. Since I got online in ’98 I’ve had friends all over the world, but I think I’ve just gotten more involved with people worldwide, become more conscious of conferences I want to attend, things happening that I’d like to see and getting to know more people I’d […]
Valley Forge
January 10th, 2009 by pleia2
I drive past it several times a month, but the last (and first!) time I was actually at Valley Forge National Historical Park was in 2005 with Michael. I always say I’m going to go back, but it never happens. So last weekend I was coming back from Micro Center having just picked up my […]
Philadelphia Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Release Party! And how we almost got arrested
November 3rd, 2008 by pleia2
On Saturday the 1st the Philadelphia team of the Ubuntu Pennsylvania LoCo held our release party. Just like last year, we decided to celebrate the release with a Halloween influenced costume party at Drake Tavern in Jenkintown. Drake Tavern is quite the hospitable place for our events, it’s a pretty family-friendly environment (Zoe was our […]