how was foo camp, you ask?
since i have a lot of people asking me "how was foo camp?" i decided it would just be best to talk briefly about the experience here!
well...it was great - what a great change of pace. by choice, i mostly do "business" stuff these days, but this was a great chance to sit back and "geek out" for awhile.
things like ...
- sitting in on a very enlightening conversation about greasemonkey between aaron boodman(google) and mark pilgrim (dive into *, looking for opps).
- meeting and talking to the creators of some of the great scripting languages of our time larry wall (perl) and guido van rossum (python). i actually stepped on larry wall's foot which is how i got to talking with him.
- reminiscing over my days of quake addiction with squirrel eiserloh (counterstrike, currently working on quake 4) and don macaskill (smugmug.com) - where don told me about the night he intoduced thresh to john romero (thresh later won one of romero's ferraris from him) - and how "romero's [virtual] feet never touched the ground. thresh would bounce a rocket launcher to his feet, jump and spin, switching weapons in mid-air and gib him before he hit the ground." i was starting to see CTF levels in my head all over again.
- and many, many, more...
unfortunately, i wasn't able to stay the whole weekend, so i'm sure i missed out on more, but rael - thanks for the experience!
