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I'm going to DisneyWorld!

So another FlashForward has come to an end.  I'm running off to a little reunion dinner now, so just a quick tale from the very end:

I was talking with Lynda about how people were impressed with my technical talk, and she asked a friend to take a photo of us together.  Then the friend asked me to take a photo of Lynda and her, and she handed me this strangely flat rubbery camera  Turns out it was an iPhone in a durable case! Well, I figured out that much on my own, but then I couldn't figure out how to point and shoot the thing.  I made the classic mistake of pointing the screen at them instead of the camera side and it took multiple tries for them to make me get it right.  Man, for a Mac user and someone who used to photo-blog from his Treo, I felt like a real tech-n00b!

So I guess the iPhone doesn't "just work" for everyone, eh?  Take THAT, Apple!  (along with a big freakin' video table).

So I won four days at DisneyWorld in the FlashForward raffle.  So now when people say "You've just finished speaking at FlashForward, what are you gonna do now?"  I have an answer!

18 hour party people

My day:

Got up at 7am, nervous about speaking at Flashforward.

Spoke at 9am.  Not a lot of laughs from the crowd.  Are my jokes too nerdy?  Are they hung over? Both?  Fortunately, they seem to love my code (which isn't even really mine, just the sum of my research into other peoples' work -- fully credited of course!) when I finally get to that part.

Whisked away for a podcast at 10:30am.  Talked way too long, but hopefully said something worthwhile.

New demo reel for Metaversal completed.  Watch it now. It rocks harder than I ever imagined it could.

Stuff like the new demo reel totally re-energizes me, realizing all we've managed to do in the last 3 years, even if it's been uphill all the way, and not the party we expected.

Speaking of which?  Disney throws a pretty great party.  Bowling, free drinks, lots of food.  Tomorrow they're having a job fair, and if anyone from Disney even looks at me with interest, I may have to submit a resume.  And then convince them to open a Boston office and adopt the Metaversaliens, since I can't very well leave them behind.

On a non-Disney note, BIG. EXCITING. MEETINGS!

Can't talk about them here yet, but just you wait!

Kathleen and I have vowed to attend every 9am session of FlashForward this year; we always sleep in at least one morning.  But now it is 1:30AM and I am still up, and K hasn't even gotten home yet, so we'll see how that goes!

another month gone by...

Today I'm speaking at FlashForward.

By now this site was supposed to be reorganized in to my techie blog and my personal blog.

But nooooooo.

So as with everything else in my life right now, I can only shout "under construction!" and pray none of my web development colleagues send wrecking balls my direction.

More updates as soon as this talk is over!