It was worth it, and even made me tear up a bit at the end. Good gravy, you’re a writer!

Later, dude!

Susan, I know what you mean. It was a tough story to tell, because you don’t want to bog down in the details but the details are what makes it powerful. It was fantastic to partner up on this with you. I was paying attention to how you organized so that maybe I can be more effective in these situations. Thanks for making this happen. It was great to reacquaint with you.

But! I’ll say this here. It was a COMPLETE and UTTER pleasure to turn all the podcasters on to the magic that is Woody’s BBQ. I had one of them “you’re trapped in here and we’ll feed you mediocre food and charge you an arm and a leg to do so” Ontario Convention Center meals (okay, so the roast beef sammich was okay, but $till….) so as the local person from 30 miles away, I I was just! so! happy! to be able to arrange some really good grub for many. ‘Specially after the “There’s no food in Ontario” complaints I’d been hearing. (heh. was fun, Bob Sample was there, owns two restaurants, so it’s great to bring in some food and have a foodie rave. Always nice, that)

And, even tho I’d thought of Woody’s going into the PME, the way that it turned out, all ad-hoc-like and everyone-pitch-in-ish, was beautiful, simply beautiful. The fact that we could have a party for 30+ while only driving one itty bitty Miata to pick it all up is, well, the Best, I tell you, the best.

And Dave, I gotta say, ’twas a blast to hang out and experience your Make Good Things Happen, Be the Change you Want to See in the World attitude in all of this. You’re One Class Act, dude.

Now, one of these days, I’ll post something to my own blog. heh.

What a stupid question. Big media is the REASON we are podcasting.

This is the very energy that fuels podcasting and most blogging-people doing something out of love, for the faint hope that maybe this will make things just “a little bit better” for someone else.

Dave Winer has pointed out recently, the true meaning of amateur, is “out of love.” So obviously you these other podcasters are bunch of “amateurs”.

-KHD

The BBQ was excellent. Kudos to Susan for being clued in and willing to help. Thanks Dave for actualizing the vision! – Steve

P.S. You can hear how much fun Dave was having it was if you listen to just the start of Tech Rag Tear Outs #038 (http://www.technewsradio.com/2005/11/tech_rag_tear_o.html). You have my permission to listen to the complete podcast if it floats your boat.