Toronto Meetup

Here we go again!

We have such a stellar bunch of people coming up for Call for Help next week we really thought we should do a meetup.

Meet me in Toronto

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Tuesday, October 3, we'll be recording Inside the Net live from the downstairs dining room at No Regrets in Liberty Village, T.O. The festivities and no-host food and drink start at 6:30p. Come by to meet:

• Amber MacArthur
• Cali Lewis and Neal Campbell of GeekBrief.tv
• Merlin Mann of 43 Folders (I think he's coming up just to buy the new Sloan record)
• The Podcast Person of the Year (me!)

and I bet we can talk some other Call for Helpers into stopping by.

RSVP at Upcoming.org - you'll find directions and maps there, too. See you there!

Friends, Austinites, Countrymen...

We had a good time in Austin. People were very friendly, as usual. And my ill-prepared speech on the Future of the Internet went well enough that I think I'll continue to develop it for the repetoire. I didn't do any Powerpoint slides and I was a little nervous about doing a speech with no visual aids at all (that's probably my TV brainwashing talking) but people didn't seem bored by it. I still think I'll add some slides. On Saturday night we had an incredible barbecue banquet at Hill Country Barbecue. Thanks to Gus, the Pit Master there, and a TechTV fan! Jessica swears she ate a whole chicken. I had ribs (beef and pork), brisket, cole slaw, potato salad, beans, their incredible fresh baked honey bread, and peach cobbler and ice cream for dessert. Mmmmmmm. Thanks to all the folks who came from as far as El Paso (10 hours by car!) to be part of the show. It was a great success.

Pat and Leo head to Joisey

Finally the details are in on where Patrick and I are appearing on Father's day. We're at Clarion Hotel & Conference Center on Route 70 East in Cherry Hill doing two technology seminars. Pat does The Wired House of 2005 at 11am and I'll be guessing at The Future of the Internet at 1:30pm. The speeches are free but you do have to pre-register on the TechLive web site. I hope we'll see you there!

I'm Flying!

I'm flying tomorrow for the first time since 9/11. It's a little nerve wracking, I admit. The effects of the attacks are so widespread and long lasting, even among people who weren't directly affected. I hold my breath every day when I drive over the Golden Gate Bridge. I guess we're all suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. It's a 7am flight to Seattle for our appearance at EMP on Saturday. I'll have to get up at 3am to get to the airport in time to get through security. Ugh. But I guess it's worth it. I'll be flying a lot in the next three months. I'm tentatively booked to do Regis in NYC October 25, then an appearance in VA November 3/4. I'm MCing a cable dinner in Raleigh, NC November 25, then flying to St Louis for a December 15 appearance. Pant pant! That's almost 30,000 air miles. Yikes! I'm not all that nervous about it, but I might be when I get there. I'm actually looking forward to going to New York in a week. I was born there and have always loved the City. I feel a need to go pay my respects.

Seattle XP

We had a great time in Seattle. I flew in on Friday, taped a piece on Tacoma, the self-proclaimed "America's Number 1 Wired City." Then we did a show to tape on Saturday. The edited show will air on Friday, 10/19 and through the weekend. Uncle Paul's museum, Experience Music Project, looked great. Wait til you see how Microsoft's XBox looks on the wall sized screen behind us. We had a capacity live audience of about 300, pretty good considering that the Mariners were playing at the same time. It was so fun doing the show with a live audience. I would love to do it that way every night. Thanks to everyone who came to the show. The weather was awful. At the end of the piece I did in Tacoma there's rain dripping off my nose and the lettering on my microphone is starting to run. It was cold too. All the natives said that we had just missed beautiful weather. Yeah right. They probably say that to all the geeks. I flew back right after the show, so I didn't have any time to see more of Seattle. But I have a feeling we'll be back. Next week I'm flying to NYC to do Live with Regis and Kelly. They're doing a technology week. Bill Gates is on on Thursday 10/25 (XP day) and I'll be on the next day, Friday 10/26. I'm going to show Regis a bunch of tech gadgets. Should be fun.