Deadblogging SF…
March 6th, 2006I got back Friday from an anti-spam conference in San Francisco. Some highlights:
- Sharing the second leg of my flight out with a certain infamous (supposedly ex-) spammer. I first recognised one of his employees, who could be played by Rob Schneider if they ever make “SPAM: the Movie.” They were, of course, going to the same conference as I was, but were much less well-received.
- Staying in room number 1906. In San Francisco. I would have thought this room would be silently left off the floor plan, like they used to do with floor #13.
- Feeling the need to say good things about the CIA, just in case there was a listening device in that thing.
- Walking from Nob Hill to Lower Haight in search of beer, and finding that beer’s probably the least intoxicating substance served around there.
- Meeting someone I’d chatted with and read on multiple online forums for about 10 years. I forget exactly what I said (something like: “oh… I’ve seen you around”), but I need to figure out the proper ettiqute for these situations. He reacted like I had produced his Stasi file…
- Coming back home with a head full of ideas, somewhat depressed that 90% of them will probably never come to fruition, and taking a break as the plane descended into a cloud-covered MSP. So beautiful, so serene, so fractal. I was reminded of some of the imagery in Solaris (the book, certainly not the OS, and I really didn’t care for either movie…)