Category: Weekly digest

Doxacon Seattle's weekly digests - posting Doxacon Seattle news and neat geek facts for the current week

Doxacon Seattle weekly digest (October 22-28)

A photo of an Edison incandescent light bulb enclosed in a cage (image courtesy Wikimedia Commons)

We’re here again with our weekly geek trivia tidbits. Some fun ones coming up over this week, some of which we include below, other’s that we simply couldn’t get to due to space limitations. If you haven’t bookmarked it already, check out a MUCH fuller weekly list that BoardGameGeek puts out – we review it …

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Doxacon Seattle weekly digest (October 15-21)

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Welcome to the weekly digest here at Doxacon Seattle! Below is this week’s collection of geeky daily tidbits and news from Doxacon Seattle. But before you jump into those, we want to let you know that tickets for Doxacon Seattle 2024 are available for purchase! There is a $10 discount for early bird purchasing. If …

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Doxacon Seattle weekly digest (October 8-14)

A drawing of Winnie the Pooh sitting on a log next to a a smoldering pile of logs (image courtesy Wikipedia)

Welcome to the weekly digest here at Doxacon Seattle! Below is this week’s collection of geeky daily tidbits and news from Doxacon Seattle. By the way, we uploaded another video from last years Doxacon Seattle – Tim Brown’s presentation Exploring Home: Here and There, Now and Then. Check it out at our YouTube channel! October …

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Doxacon Seattle weekly digest (October 1-7)

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Welcome to the weekly digest here at Doxacon Seattle! Below is this week’s collection of geeky daily tidbits and news from Doxacon Seattle. Remember that we’re going to be having our final Doxaday of 2024 – a meetup at GeekGirlCon 2023 (Saturday, October 7). Our plan is to get together at a restaurant outside of …

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Doxacon Seattle weekly digest (September 24 – September 30)

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Welcome to the weekly digest here at Doxacon Seattle! Below is this week’s collection of geeky daily tidbits and news from Doxacon Seattle. In case you missed it, we want to be sure you see last week’s call for presenters for Doxacon Seattle 2024. Our theme for 2024 is “At the End of All Things: …

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Doxacon Seattle weekly digest (September 17 – September 23)

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Welcome to the weekly digest here at Doxacon Seattle! Below is this week’s collection of geeky daily tidbits and news from Doxacon Seattle. A couple of bits of news before this week’s geekery. First off all, we’re starting to upload videos of the various presentations at Doxacon Seattle 2023. You can check out the first …

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Doxacon Seattle weekly digest (September 10 – September 16)

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Welcome to the weekly digest here at Doxacon Seattle! Below is this week’s collection of geeky daily tidbits and news from Doxacon Seattle. Though it may seem far away, we’re busy making plans for the Doxacon Seattle 2024 (Saturday, February 10, 2024 at the Brightwater Center). We want to highlight last week’s call for vendors for Doxacon …

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Doxacon Seattle weekly digest (September 3 – September 9)

Anne Frank's passport photo from 1942 (image courtesy Wikimedia Commons)

Welcome to the weekly digest here at Doxacon Seattle! Below is this week’s collection of geeky daily tidbits and news from Doxacon Seattle. Happy Labor Day to you all! We hope that you are enjoying a relaxing day with family & friends. Looking down the calendar, we’re looking forward to BrickCon 2023 – the Bellevue-based …

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Doxacon Seattle weekly digest (August 27 – September 2)

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Welcome to the weekly digest here at Doxacon Seattle! Below is this week’s collection of geeky daily tidbits and news from Doxacon Seattle. August 28 – Sixty years ago today (1963) Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I have a dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Though there is much work yet …

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Doxacon Seattle weekly digest (August 20 – August 26)

Tux, the penguin mascot for Linux (image courtesy Wikimedia Commons)

Welcome to the weekly digest here at Doxacon Seattle! Below is this week’s collection of geeky daily tidbits and news from Doxacon Seattle. We hope you’re enjoying the cooler weather! Summer is wonderful and all, but we’re hoping that the 90 degree temperatures are firmly behind us 😬Speaking of behind us, this last weekend was …

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