Startup Weekend Atlanta

…from Samantha Murphy.

She tunes, Andrew rallies the troops:  step away from the laptop.  Some of the guys don’t seem so interested in the female singer/songwriter from nowhere really (she doesn’t have a current address, but just forwards everything from one address to the next — currently she’s up to six, she says.)   She happens to be in Georgia, and she’s a big fan of Startup Weekend, and Andrew’s a big fan of hers, so it works out really well to be doing something other than whatever it is we’re doing currently.

It started in Boston, where one of the co-founders brought Samantha by.  She’s on Twitter and she gets tech.  Take this and chill out, Andrew says.

I’m only here because of the men-to-women ratio, she says before she starts strumming.

Most are reasonably raptly listing.  Except for the Dev team, who can code without missing a beat, her beat.

Some Assembly Required, she sings.

Samantha is here for a panel at Georgia Tech, and has an online radio show:  SMtv.  She confesses, “I’m a geek too.”

…we must learn to be silent and still, her next song concludes.  Good lesson for some, for most.

In the Laundromat:  Background:  when you live in New York, your apartment has to be close to the laundromat.  Moral of the story:  don’t let your clothes pile up, or a hot guy will hit on you at the laundromat when you’re not looking your best.

(At DCSW, we discussed the concept that the less time you’ve spent on your personal hygiene, the more likely it is you’ll have an opportunity to get lucky.  Why is that?)

She worries that her stuff is a little girl-focused, given that she’s singing to a room of exactly three women and dozens of guys.  It is a good men to women ratio — or a not-so-good one, depending on what’s important.

Samantha wins us over.  It was the nice break that Andrew promised.  Better than yoga even.