{"id":42,"date":"2004-08-26T22:02:53","date_gmt":"2004-08-26T10:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/?p=42"},"modified":"2025-03-20T16:45:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T03:45:41","slug":"thursday_night_curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/2004\/08\/26\/thursday_night_curry\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Night Curry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I went to dinner with the Thursday Night Curry in Auckland<\/a><\/em> group tonight. It’s only taken me three months since I was first invited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to the IT background of (most) of the participants I was expecting it to be quite geeky. I would now like to confirm that I am only a borderline geek; I didn’t understand some of the things they were talking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All said, I had an enjoyable evening and will do it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went to dinner with the Thursday Night Curry in Auckland group tonight. It’s only taken me three months since I was first invited. Due to the IT background of (most) of the participants I was expecting it to be quite geeky. 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