Geek Dinner - Manchester UK
Tonight I went for dinner with several people I know in and around the Manchester area whom are all involved in the .NET community, the attendees were Mike Taulty, Dave Verwer, Andrew Stopford and Tony Whitter.
We went to a particular favorite of mine - Shimla Pinks in Manchester, it's an Indian pleace but is very tendy, lots of neon and black marble ;-)
A most interesting night, some highlights: -
Andrew Stopford appears to know what "getting maced" is like, I stopped short of asking if he knew what personal attack alarms sounded like.
Tony Whitter proved to us all that over many years of abuse the taste buds along his tongue have been rendered completly and utterly useless by eating the hottest and most deadly curry he could find and then asking for some raw chilies to give it that extra kick. Nutter! Also Tony was right, the car park did punish me for parking there for a few hours - £12.80 !
Dave Verwer is a DIRTY MAC USER AND SHOULD DIE FOR HIS SINS. Apparently he has already heard all of the jokes I tried to come up with about Macs.
All in all I think a good night was had by all - and we didn't even talk about Tony's hedgehogs.