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Amazing trip to San Francisco

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
by Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Just a quick post to bump my last one, as it’s been a while. Just got back from San Francisco after an amazing week of fun, work, and great conversation.  Met a TON of GREAT new people and made a lot of new friends. Here’s a quick list of amazing things I got to do while visiting friends and meeting new ones over the past week:

  • Streaming the iPhone launch from Apple Store on Stockton St.
  • Buying new iPod Touch, upgrading to 2.0, loading Pandora and other apps from the AppStore
  • Discovering my new addiction at the Blue Bottle Cafe. Siphon Pot coffee is unbelievable. Check out my Flickr pics.
  • Super secret meetings with some very big names that I can’t really talk about.
  • Rocked the Mechanicrawl, met Terry Lindell (uber-master of the Mark IV TDC).
  • Attended Gary Vaynerchuk’s party for taping of the WLTV 500th Episode  (insane energy and good vibes at that event). Ran into old friends like Scott Beale (@laughingsquid) and an old college buddy - Brad Murphy - who is VP at Revision 3. Got to meet/talk to Kevin Rose and many other notables in the local tech scene.
  • Attended the Freshbooks Tweetup at 21st Amendment. Geeked out with fellow iPhone/Touch enthusiasts. Drank 9.2% IPA that was out of this world.
  • Attended Social Media Camp San Francisco. Met some AMAZING people at this event. Met Erica O’Grady. Hung out with @danielbru and the Qik guys. Got to meet @Corvida and a lot of other awesome people.
  • Attended Mashable SummerMash San Francisco. Met Pete Cashmore, ran into lots of friends & met new ones. Met Steven Fruchter, CEO of Stickam. Discussed some ideas / opps for collaboration.
  • Dinner with Yeshi Govindas Friedland and drinks with Brad Murphy. What happens when you get together with 2 college buddies who haven’t seen each other together since around 1996? A late night that ended at 2:45am this morning.
  • Upgraded to First Class on Virgin America flight from SFO -> SEA and had the absolute pleasure of meeting and talking with Actor Peter Coyote (wikipedia him). Overhead voicemail on ride from SEATAC (he offered to share his driver) from Matthew Modine.

That about sums it up. Tomorrow I attend a day long course by one of my true idols, Mr. Edward Tufte.

I have a crapload of stuff to do between now and next Weds, when I fly to Albany, NY and head up into the Adirondack Mountains to a little area where there is still no mobile phone coverage. There I will continue work on one of my engines. This is a VERY exciting time for me right now.

Thanks to all my new friends, followers, and supporters!

Onward & Upward.

–Brian

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A time for exploration

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
by Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Welcome to the next phase in the exploration of some ideas that I and several others had just over a year ago. This is one of many new sites we will be bringing online in the coming weeks, and hopefully months. Hold on tight, things could get a little crazy again. We’re going to try and build a couple of the engines I’ve so desperately wanted to code up and deploy to the cloud.

Please do keep in mind that I am only able to devote a very limited amount of my precious time to exploring these ideas for now, as I have a full time job in the enterprise software industry where I work as a Senior Systems Engineer for Software AG Inc., and also own/manage Eastlake Associates LLC, a commercial property management business in Seattle, WA.

Major props to @kibmcz,  my stealth coding ninja from parts way up north for helping pull this stuff all together so quickly. Be sure to check out KComputer Zone for all the meta. Special thanks to Chris Pirillo for a truly stellar Wordpress theme. Well done! Bravo.

Now that I’ve got this nifty new Wordpress blog, I will be retiring (not deleting) my old blog which I recently changed from http://bdeseattle.blogspot.com to infinitelymeta.blogspot.com. Please also be sure to follow me on Friendfeed and Twitter, as they are where you can figure out all the other socnets I frequent.

And now the fun continues.

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