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January 30, 2006
Copenhagen Geek Dinner 2.0
And so to the Metrobar, site of the Copenhagen Geek Dinner 2.0 this past Friday (27th January 2006). There were some familiar faces from last time, some new (to me at least), and some from CGD 1.0 who were absent this time. Situated opposite the Metro station at Forum in Fredericksberg, the Metro Bar is a cosy, small bar which takes its name from its proximity to the Metro station : it used to be known as Cafe Sius. There's a separate dining section with seating for up to 40 people, where we sat for the two course dinner. We were served a very tender and tasty veal carpaccio on a bed of spinach for starters. The main course was a roll of lamb, flavoured with cumin, served with a salad of beans and sundried tomatoes and Dauphinoise potatoes, also very tasty. Drinks were on our own account after the Great Missing Cash debacle of CGD 1.0 in October. There's a fair selection of cocktails and bottled beers (that old 80's stalwart, Sol, and GB's FinAle) in addition to the usual Tuborg Green and Classic, and coffee. Unfortunately, not all the bottled beers were in stock, and I think the Hoegaarden got pretty depleted, too. Perhaps the only criticisms of the Metro Bar was the slightly uneven heating - there was a small gas heater in the dining section that was in binary mode : either 6,000K or off - and the poor selection of whiskies - no Lagavulin or Laphroaig (or similar) ... never mind.
I spent much of the dinner conversation talking to Thomas K of Toothless Tiger about some ideas for mobile social software that Johannes and I have. After dinner, people started to mingle a bit, and a few stragglers turned up, including Daniel Karpantschof. Once again, I didn't have a chance to talk to everyone before people started leaving, which was a bit frustrating. I did manage to chat to film-maker André from Malmö, who, due to his (by his own admission) poor navigation skills, had been quite surprised to find the place at all. André is a graduate of the Zen school of driving, apparently, because his car trips consist of a never-ending series of surprising incidental discoveries and rarely involve anything as mundane as actually arriving at the place he was headed for. I had a short chat with Michael from Odense, currently an intern in Copenhagen, with Camilla, a student originally from Bornholm (or was it Greenland?) who has just finished a project on corporate blogging, and is in the process of getting her own blog, and with Jesper, one of the e-mediators, about ... well, just stuff really. I was also rather insulting to Jacob Bøtter, but apparently I was very English about it, so that's OK. Drinking and frivolity ensued, including the rather surprising spectacle of mixed body parts (many of them apparently belonging to Daniel) being signed with a purple Letraset marker. I talked with him a bit and it turns out that he also works in the film industry, for Zentropa, I believe.
Around midnight our numbers had thinned sufficiently that we could adjourn to the main bar without swamping it completely, where we stayed the rest of the evening. I left around 3am, but the bar itself had closed, so I can't imagine that the five hard-boiled barflies I left behind stayed there for much longer ...
Photos here.
Once again, many thanks to Henri for organizational chutzpah. CGD 3.0 is already in the offing.
Posted by daen at January 30, 2006 01:26 AM