Lynn Bender at GeekAustin (aka @linearb to many other circles) is a phenomenal piano player. He heard about my sister Debby’s financial strife while trying to overcome graft-vs-host disease, and decided he’d like to play to help her raise some money to cover her expenses. Right now her health insurance is over $700 […]

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I have known Lynn for some time now. Lynn totally saved my life (truth), so it makes me happy when the GeekAustin parties are successful.
Yesterday proved no exception. It was a great format. The people who wanted to discuss the semantic web could, while others who just wanted to socialize could do […]

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Lynn, Whurley and I would like to thank everyone who came out to the February Dorkbot/GeekAustin Happy Hour. Much thanks to David Nunez and the crew for the crazy cool animation going on in the mix.
Unfortunately, the date of February 12th was just too appealing and Austin on Rails and Refresh Austin people had […]

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Ok, so our next party is at JBlack’s on February 12th. This will not involve buying flowers or candy, or calling around to restaurants trying to find the one place that isn’t booked. Will you meet the future Mr. or Ms. (insert your last name here) at the February Geek Austin party? […]

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What, you didn’t see us? We were all there. Uh yeah…
As much as Lynn, Whurley and I wanted to go to BarCamp Texas, the gods were against us this year. Between Whurley’s crazy whiteboard/server/skateboard accident, Lynn’s GotSocialMedia cold, and Michelle’s trek to find a bridesmaid dress to make her best […]

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OK, Lynn, Whurley and I really hope you all had a great time at JBlack’s tonight. No arrests were made and I don’t think there was any geek loving going on in the bathroom. Just fun times with a great bunch of people, a concerned Time Warner Cable guy, and a bunch of […]

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