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Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Make it so, number one:
As some of you may know (either because you know me in real life or because you read my about page), I am a career computer geek and work primarily with Lotus/IBM software. Every year, Lotus has a conference in Orlando called Lotusphere, where, you guessed it, a bunch of geeks get together and talk about Lotus software. It's going on right now, as a matter of fact.
I really wanted to go this year, because I just started getting into the speaking circuit via another Lotus-centric conference last year, and it would be a good networking opportunity for me to be there, not to mention that nearly everyone I know in the industry is there right now. I know at least half a dozen of the speakers and at least another dozen attendees, and I think that in addition to all of the valuable technical content I would have obtained at the conference, I would've had a blast hanging out with my peeps, because I rarely get to see them all in one place. However, until yesterday I'd just chalked it up to another conference that I'd be missing and figured I'd get the tech info and gossip from my friends when they returned.
Then I got a call from one of them. Telling me who the guest speaker was.
Patrick.
Freakin'.
Stewart.
That's right. Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Professor Charles Xavier. Ebenezer Scrooge. Sterling. Davies. Shakespearean characters galore. My future husband. That Patrick Stewart.
I have never regretted missing a technical conference more in my ENTIRE LIFE.
We will now return to your regularly scheduled programming, which does not include inappropriate crushes on celebrities who are more than twice my age.
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