March 2006 Archives

SCENE: Tim Appnel walking the halls of ETech 2006 when Rich Gibson leaps into his view from off the floor.

Rich: Hey! Is Ben answering your email? Did you hear why Hammersley's isn't here? He's is getting a 3 foot tattoo down his side?

Tim: Really?!? I've heard from him a bit because of the big project he has going on. He got one down his back right before OSCON.

Rich: I know!

Tim: Three foot though?!? What is it this time?

Rich: I don't know, but that's what I'm hearing. I'll let you know if I hear anything else.

Tim and Rich part company.

SCENE: In another part of the hotel in another hall Tim spots the lovely Paula Le Dieu approaching.

Tim: Paula my dear! I have a question to ask you.

Paula: Wait. Wait. I know. Yes he did. It's a 3 foot long dragon down his side. He just got the outline today. It gets filled in 2 weeks from now. He also said it hurt like hell.

Tim smiles and shakes his head slowly trying to process what he just heard. Finally....

Tim: What a wild man!

It was true. Our favorite english gentleman was on his way to becoming a living canvas. Yesterday those two weeks were up.

I now present to you Ben's finished three foot dragon tattoo. More on Flickr here.

Oddly enough the Netflix DVD I had just watched was the night before was Enter The Dragon.

Posted on Mike Doughty's weblog:

I watch the American Idol.

It is the terrible awful show.

Watching it makes Jesus angry.

I'm out in San Diego for this year's Emerging Technology conference. It's great to be here again. Last year I got to attend a bunch of different conferences as both a speaker and observer. ETech stil remains my favorite because of the ecclectic mix of talented people who speak, attend and, most importantly, interact. This year is at larger location. It still sold out.

I'm doing some reporting from the scene for O'Reilly. My first post is up already. More to follow. Master of Mayhem Robert Kaye is also making posts there too. For more conference coverage look here.

If you are attending and see me in the halls be sure to say hello.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. -- Henry David Thoreau

This was in my (unconfigured) Gmail Web Clip display when I checked my mail this afternoon.