Geekin' out
Saturday was the Girl Geek Regent Street shopping day. I had been really looking forward to it, but the day before the two girls I'd been planning on seeing there dropped out. And then on the day I was feeling really rough - the sore throat I'd had all week feeling like it'd developed into a cold.
But I went anyway.
And I'm so glad I did! We had a talk at the beginning of the day by Jess Greenwood on post-digital thinking (post digital cows!!) which was entertaining (faaabulous speaker) and engaging. Then it was off to Basecamp to collect vouchers with QR codes and a bag to store treasures in.
My first stop was to collect a Swarovski Crystal encrusted USB stick, then across the road to Liberties for the first of many goodie bags. Into Bose for a talk on 'lifestyle entertainment' (read: very VERY expensive soundsystem .. I soooo want!!) and another goodie bag. While there I managed to also collect another girl geek, and we set off down Regents St together with my iPhone's QR reader and the rest of the codes.
The QR reader wasn't essential, there was enough info on the cards to get to the next shop, but it was nice to scan in, have a bit more information, and walking directions.
My favourite discovery was the 'living wall' in Anthropologie. If you've not been in there, and you have the opportunity, I would thoroughly recommend. It's amazing - a vertical garden stretching the height of the store - self-watering through rainwater. Gorgeous.
The free lunch in veggie restaurant Tibits was fabulous - definitely going back there. Cocktails in the National Geographic store - who knew they did those?! Another repeat-visit required. And the Sky Bar (as in the thing above you, not the company) tucked away at the top of a hotel on Great Marlborough Street - another 'secret London' thing I love discovering. And by the time I got there, I'd collected another four girl geeks. Much wine was thusly consumed.
It was a wonderfully social day, the bags helped us gg's identify eachother. Everyone was really friendly. And we were all busily foursquaring and tweeting and adding and following.. very very cool. For once I was in company with my head down over my phone.
I apologise for the Facebook spam that resulted though .. I did try and delete most of it!
Fab, fab Saturday.
But I went anyway.
And I'm so glad I did! We had a talk at the beginning of the day by Jess Greenwood on post-digital thinking (post digital cows!!) which was entertaining (faaabulous speaker) and engaging. Then it was off to Basecamp to collect vouchers with QR codes and a bag to store treasures in.
My first stop was to collect a Swarovski Crystal encrusted USB stick, then across the road to Liberties for the first of many goodie bags. Into Bose for a talk on 'lifestyle entertainment' (read: very VERY expensive soundsystem .. I soooo want!!) and another goodie bag. While there I managed to also collect another girl geek, and we set off down Regents St together with my iPhone's QR reader and the rest of the codes.
The QR reader wasn't essential, there was enough info on the cards to get to the next shop, but it was nice to scan in, have a bit more information, and walking directions.
My favourite discovery was the 'living wall' in Anthropologie. If you've not been in there, and you have the opportunity, I would thoroughly recommend. It's amazing - a vertical garden stretching the height of the store - self-watering through rainwater. Gorgeous.
The free lunch in veggie restaurant Tibits was fabulous - definitely going back there. Cocktails in the National Geographic store - who knew they did those?! Another repeat-visit required. And the Sky Bar (as in the thing above you, not the company) tucked away at the top of a hotel on Great Marlborough Street - another 'secret London' thing I love discovering. And by the time I got there, I'd collected another four girl geeks. Much wine was thusly consumed.
It was a wonderfully social day, the bags helped us gg's identify eachother. Everyone was really friendly. And we were all busily foursquaring and tweeting and adding and following.. very very cool. For once I was in company with my head down over my phone.
I apologise for the Facebook spam that resulted though .. I did try and delete most of it!
Fab, fab Saturday.