The Gadgets Page

The Gadgets Page sponsored a geek-together in Salt Lake City, called CodeAway. You can see the photos here:

We were able to try out the new MarioKart Wii. It turned out to be a fun game, even for people who had never played before and a challenging change for those old pros who had never played with the Wii Wheel.

A special thank you to Rocky Mountain Pizza for allowing us to invade their banquet room for four hours and play video games and eat lots of pizza!

NakedJen was so nice to come to the party. She’s a recent transplant to Utah from Santa Cruz. Kevin Fitzgerald just came to Utah from a small town near San Luis Obispo, so I sat him next to Jen so she could give him pointers on getting adjusted to Utah.

Here’s a self portrait of me with Jen.

Toward the end, we received a visit from our favorite tech recruiter, Robert Merrill!

Scott Lemon was streaming some of CodeAway live using his Nokia 75. It’s a great demonstration of Qik and the Nokia. The audio is kind of scratchy, but it gives you a good idea of the fun we were having:

Sheri took some photos as well. You can see them here:

• Flickr: designsimply’s CodeAway photos

This one is my favorite:

Left, go left! by designsimply from Flickr

In the end, I would like to thank all that attended (and spread around the Link Love):

• Lamont Peterson
• Sheri Bigelow
• Jason Alderman
• Scott Lemon (with Andrea and Sam)
• Jake and Melissa Spurlock
• Kevin Fitzgerald (He’s a digital radiology guy, so he doesn’t have a blog yet. Give us time!)
• NakedJen
• Robert Merrill
• Michael Moncur
• and me, Laura Moncur

If you live in the Utah area, you can find out about fun geeky events like this at CodeAway. It looks like the Gadgets Page is going to be sponsoring CodeAway for a while, so you can find out about all the fun after the party here!