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OpenWorld Manifest: Day 2

By Jake • October 13th, 2009 • View Comments

Wow, so it rained a bunch today, and it was windy. Like a tropical storm or something. Not the best weather for me, being umbrella-phobic and all. I nearly had my eye poked out a dozen times, not a good day to be anti-umbrella.

Anyway, here we go.

Tuesday, Day 2:

• Woke up to rain and wind.
• Looked out the hotel window to see Bay Bridge traffic backed up to Berkeley.
• Decided to catch the morning keynote on OpenWorld Live.
• Watched the keynote, stoked to be on the WebCenter team.
• Ventured out into the rain.
• Soaked through shirt and undershirt on the way to car.
• Sat in Bay Bridge maze for 45 minutes, recurring theme.
• Noticed how much angrier Bay Area drivers are compared to Portland drivers.
• Understood why.
• Felt bad for people who have to cross the Bay Bridge every day.
• Tweeted in traffic.
• Checked Google Maps traffic to confirm I was totally hosed.
• Felt nervous on the top deck of the Bay Bridge in 40 mph wind gusts.
• Made it to Moscone unscathed.
• Confronted fear of umbrellas.
• Ducked into Moscone West to avoid wet clothes contest.
• Stole Foursquare mayorship of Moscone West.
• Gloated to myself.
• Chatted with Bex in the OTN Lounge.
• Skipped a session to stay dry.
• Thought I lost my phone. Eek.
• Ran into Meg and Vivian.
• Felt bad for being discombobulated about my phone.
• Found my phone.
• Felt sheepish.
• Ran into Anthony.
• Convinced myself someone was blocking Brizzly and this blog to annoy me.
• Confirmed suspicions.
• Felt annoyed.
• Had lunch with Anthony and Dan.
• Learned from Dan that I couldn’t get an Exadata 2 instance to make Connect awesome-scary fast.
• Came to terms with that.
• Avoided umbrella eye-pokes.
• Returned to the OTN Lounge.
• Got the high hat from Floyd, again
• Attended a WebCenter Spaces demo.
• Learned some things.
• Plotted world domination with Matt, Dan, Paul, Floyd in the OTN Lounge.
• Went to a customer event.
• Went to the blogger meetup.
• Met a bunch of people.
• Caught up with people I know.
• Thanked Justin and Alex for paying and hosting.
• Hugged Floyd, Amy, Meg.
• Caught up with Floyd, finally.
• Wandered around SOMA a little.
• Blogged about it all.

Stay tuned for more tomorrow.

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