Victoria meetup at Smith's Pub

We had a great impromptu meet up at Smith's Pub last night. First verdict is that Smith's Pub has great food (deluxe mini lamb burger's for $2 each during happy hour, complete with brie and spring greens) and a great beer selection. Unfortunately they were out of Howe Sound Hang Dog Hefeweizen in the 1L bottles, so I had to make do with some Belgium and Dutch beers that were there.

Other merry makers included:

• Rob Ellis - tags: Drupal, FreeBSD, Regex, etc. (winner, most powerful tag: regex)
• Gord Christmas - tags: Drupal, WebApps, SEO, Design, Print, School (Gord is training lots of people at North Studio and is looking to perhaps start some training and work in Vancouver; I say -- yes!)
• Todd Bailey - tags: Nuclear Cool (Todd was a non-Drupal geek friend of mine who made the excellent Smith's Pub suggestion, and also happens to be an expert beer rater at http://www.ratebeer.com)
• Evan Leeson - tags: photo, writing, dad, passion, better world now (Evan is a fantastic photographer, we learned he's writing a near future novel, and someone who can legitimately say they smashed their Blackberry to pieces with a giant log)
• Kris Krug - tags: Social Media, Art, Photography, Community (from KK: I am whatever you say I am)
• Heather Libby - tags: webdesign/interactive, writer, badass shoe rocker -- (quote: "walk in them? Dude, I iron in them...")
• Jane Milner

Pictures to be posted to Flickr a bit later after I get home (finally!). Was great to see everyone, we'll have to make it a bigger event next time. Hmmm...DemoCampVictoria? I'll leave it up to Lllllloyd to organize that one (we missed you, buddy!).