So I’ve been a little slow to write this, mainly due to the fact that I’ve been having trouble catching up on sleep. But two weekends ago, I had an amazing weekend, because I spent the weekend at PAX in Seattle. Now I should have cool and interesting reveiw of PAX, but now two weeks later it doesnt look like it’s gonna happen. Why? because I have NADD.

here are some good reviews though:

PAX at Slashdot

Tycho + Gabe on PAX

Ars Technica’s Post 

I’ll post some pictures eventually too.

Hasta

/Nat

p.s. read the article I linked to on Nerd Attention Deficit Disorder (NADD). It describes me so well it’s scary.

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I attended BarCampBlock this weekend. I only attended on Saturday, and for what I attended, it was amazing.

For those of you who are lost on what BarCampBlock is, I’ll give you a quick once over. BCB is a BarCamp, which came in response to FooCamp, an invite only event held at O’Reilly’s Sebastopol offices. The concept of both conferences is basically take a normal conference and cover it in web2.0 and chaos. The web2.0 because the attendees are the ones giving speeches. Everyone is expected to give some sort of talk, or at least contribute to the discussions. The chaos comes from the fact that the schedule is as the attendees make it. You show up, put your topic in a time period and go. But somehow it all works out, and everyone learns a lot. As Tara Hunt said at the opening of BarCampBlock, BarCamps are what you make them.

So, what did I do at this little shindig with over 900 people in a little corner of Palo Alto? Well I showed up around nine am on Saturday with Andrew Yates, originally planning on helping out at the front desk. The help didn’t seem to be needed, so we grabbed a cup of coffee and then helped put the infamous grid together.

Then there was a little opening ceremony and the gates were figuratively opened and the grid was bum rushed as people went to get their topics up on the gird. Mass chaos ensued. It was awesome. :) (more…)

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You know what I love? Hot Coffee. You know why I love Hot Coffee? Because thanks to the whole lawsuit thing, Hot Coffee doesn’t remind me of the wonderfully delicious drink, instead it reminds me of coding and the nerd culture as a whole.

This weekend I attended SuperHappyDevHouse 19, known affectionately as shdh19. Shdh, is at it’s core a place for geek, nerds, designers, and developers of all kinds to meet, greet, and possibly even get a few personal projects pounded out in code. This time, shdh was located in Los Gatos, which was awesome because it was near my house. I originally went with the goal of programming, but ended up spending more time meeting people, which was better for me, I think, because I really don’t know a ton of people in the area with the same interests as me. This of course is due to the fact that I haven’t attended more of these events, not because they don’t exist. Because in all honesty, finding computer “enthusiasts” in Silicon Valley is like finding people with bad teeth in fifteen century Britain. (more…)

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