The Digital Life expo this weekend was the fifth time in the last 5 years I’ve been to the Javits Convention Center, and the thing that always strikes me about the building is the giant glass-and-metal roof when you’re not in the convention hall.
I really like the way this photo came out, with minimal tweaking. There’s a 1600×1200 version on Flickr, of course.
There’s something about October in New York City that seems to make it particularly likely there’s an event you want to go to. Last year, we hit Paul Van Dyk, Neal Stephenson, John Lithgow, and Jamie Oliver.
As a reminder: tomorrow continues the juggernaut of October 2004, as Ricky Gervais invades the holiest of museums, the Museum Of Television And Radio. There’ll be a screening of The Office (Christmas) Special, and then a “conversation” with Ricky directly thereafter. While I doubt the entire event is going to be quite on the insanity level of the Anchorman premiere, it should be a fantastic time.
Making it potentially even more fantastic is something that I may get to meet a blogger I admire very much right beforehand; I’ll save that for another post, though.
As usual with MTR functions, I’ve posted event details on upcoming.org, just in case you’re in NYC and interested and I haven’t talked your ear off about this already and you missed the last post about it. Expect a long-winded starstruck post tomorrow night!
Yesterday, Alton Brown was doing a conversation and signing of his new baking book, “I’m Just Here For More Food”.
He struck me immediately as a quick witted smartass – which is fantastic in my eyes, since I try my damnedest to be the same way.
Up close and personal, though, he was really nice and generous, talking to everyone who was getting a book signed for a fair amount of time.
And the book is fantastic, by the way – truly a cookbook for geeks. High recommendations from me.
