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[j3tset]

On way to dinner, we stumbled into the Real Ghostbusters Firehouse😱#chubbehbunnehs #ghostbusters #ghostbustersfirehouse #newyorkchristmas #geektour #newyorkcity (at Ghostbusters Agence) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br9UTyPBlSU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1c5e9hiyurh69

[a2geeks]

Geek Tour: Labadie Anarchist Collection

When: Thursday, May 26 at 4 PM Where: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library / University of Michigan Free Tickets: Eventbrite

A collection documenting the history of social protest movements and marginalized political communities from the 19th century to the present In the 1930s, the U-M Library’s Joseph A. Labadie Collection — the oldest publicly accessible archive of its kind in America — was called “probably the most complete record of the social unrest of our times that has ever been assembled." Since then, the collection has only grown, expanding from its original focus on anarchism to also encompass antheism and free thought, anti-colonialist movements, anti-war and pacifist movements, civil liberties and civil rights, labor and workers' rights, LGBTQ movements, prisons and prisoners, New Left, Spanish Civil War, youth and student protest, and many more.

[a2geeks]

Geek Tour at A2 Art Center Nov 7

Join the Ann Arbor Geeks as we go on a tour of the Art Lab at the fabulous Ann Arbor Art Center! The space is specially designed to align fine arts with technology and is holding some really cool classes...and we get a private tour! There may also be opportunities for us to make some things while we are there (claymation, stop-motion animations). Whatever we do, you know it will be GEEKtastic!

Nov 7 - 4pm

Please RSVP

[a2geektour]

GeekTour ReCellular this Saturday!

Meeting at 10am in Dexter.  To register (free) go to Eventbrite.

If you want to carpool you can coordinate that with this Duckshare.

Today, our firm based in Dexter, Michigan is the world's largest recycler and reseller of used cellular phones and accessories. ReCellular partnered with the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's (CTIA) Wireless Foundation on the original Donate a Phone charitable recycling program, and has since developed long-standing relationships with key industry players such as Verizon Wireless, Motorola, Sprint and Best Buy (to name a few).

[a2geektour]

GeekTour 3 - Arbor Brewing Company

Tuesday Jan 24th at 6pm - come tour the Arbor Brewing Company in Ann Arbor with head brewer Bill Gerds!  ABC brews onsite in downtown Ann Arbor and has a variety of beers in various stages of production.

Register at Eventbrite

Also, join us afterwards to celebrate A2Geeks receiving 501c3 nonprofit status!

[alexeckermann]

Geek Tour 2011

Some may know of my plans coming up in March. If not heres the info as well as some finer details of where and why.

The Trip

For the whole month of March, the 1st to 31st, I will be in the US. Why the US? Well where else on the planet is there Silicon Valley, Apple’s HQ and New York :) It was a decision either to get a car or go on this trip, I think I made the right decision. I will be travelling with a great mate in the US, Cody Christian (@codypchristian).

The idea has been thrown about for a while but back in late 2010 the decision was made that 2011 will be the year to turn ideas into reality. My new years resolution for 2010 was to be in New York’s Times Square for NYE 2011, after watching the Times Square NYE 2010 celebrations. Unfortunately, by the time I checked flights later in the year they were already a too pricy. So after a few long Skype calls we decided that March would be the best month. As for the length of the visit, hey why not the whole month?!

With both Cody and myself being pretty geeky we decided that most of our itinerary would be focussed around going to the places that our industry highlights as sacred ground. Places like Silicon Valley, several Headquarters of companies we love, the must visit US cities and Yosemite National Park to take some amazing photos.

Itinerary

March 1st: Leave Australia bound for LAX. Depart Adelaide at 9:30am local to go to SYD then LAX. Arrive at LAX around 10:00am local on the same day (only a 30 minute flight, apparently)! Then fly straight off to SFO. March 1st-8th: San Francisco. Explore Silicon Valley. March 9th-11th: Yosemite National Park. Pretty much all photography. March 12th-15th: Los Angeles. Hollywood and all that. March 16th-17th: Las Vegas. Somehow fit the Grand Canyon and Vegas into 2 days! March 18th-22nd: New York. See the sights, catch a cab. March 23rd-25th: Washington DC. Where all the serious stuff happens, apparently. March 26th-31st: Florida. Cody’s home state and also home to Disneyland :) March 31st – April 2nd: Begin >24 hour trek home. Somehow April the 1st just disappears, does not even happen.

Places of Interest

Twitter HQ

Facebook HQ

Apple Mothership (its true, they sell t-shirts that say that)

Googleplex

TWiT TV HQ

Revision3 (meeting with people like Hak5 Darren and the Diggnation guys?)

Mythbusters

White House

Capital Hill

Manhattan

Trying to catch up with Gary Vaynerchuk on his book tour

Meeting the many people (IRL) I have known only via the Internet for these many years

Geek Tour 2011 website

So with both of us being web developers how could we not resist. We are building a website where it will go out and automatically scrape all of our tweets, photo uploads, check-ins and Facebook updates into one site detailing our whole trip. Check out http://geektour2011.com closer to March.

More information will be on the GT11 website when its up and running.