11 October 2003

Yesterday, the blue angels flew over San Francisco.

Jamie Zawinksi, pimpin’ it at the Metreon.

Foo Camp is awesome!

Driving to Sebastapol.

I arrived late last night, thanks largely to Doc letting me know which state to fly to.

Chris DiBona

The campsite is the main O’Reilly offices north of San Francisco; people spent the night sleeping in empty cubicles and offices, and those of us with fortitude of character setup camp on the lawn behind the building.

I’d picked up a tent and sleeping bag at the new REI in the city, so count me among the real men.

As a result, it’s a fairly photogenic conference. There are tents setup in hallways and sleeping bags under desks and you get to see (and photograph) what all these people look like just after they’ve woken up and crawled out of bed.

Last night, after a bottle of wine, I ran into and frenetically fanboyed Scott McCloud. When we started Ximian I bought about 30 copies of Understanding Comics — "the seminal work on semiotics" — for all our developers, at Andy Hertzfeld’s behest.

Fanboying Scott McCloud.

There are a lot of cool people here.

Sergey Brin.

And there are a couple of interesting talks going on today that I’m looking forward to attending. At the end of the day I’m going to do a small session on the work we did on dashboard over the summer.