Foo sign-up frenzy

I took these pics on friday evening and saturday morning. The smaller one is the frenzy of people signing up to present. It' s completely free form so you can present on anything that strikes your fancy, and as you can see from the larger pic there were a lot of fancies...

While I attended some great presentations (and missed many more), the one where I had the most fun was "Improvisation with Ask A Ninja." We went through some improvisational comedy techniques such as storytelling as a group (each person can say one word) and watching/listening to what zany stories bubble to the surface. I think in one retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Goldy was being chased by a wolf while eating a house.

setting up camp

I finally made it through the North 101 traffic to arrive at Foo Camp 2007 in Sebastapol, CA. I figured that foo came from fubar, but didn't realize that it was a play on the previously held "bar" camps. Sebastapol is a mid-size town and since I only brought a sleeping bag thought I'd look around for somewhere to buy an air mattress to make my sleeping environment a bit softer. In luck I found a Rite-Aid with a $2.00 bright green mattress. Sweet. Took a while to get checked in, get the swag and ran into Chad Fowler while looking a bit lost. He helped me out directionally, we chatted a bit and then off to find some camping space. The campus is spread out with many areas off limits to camping. Lot's of people are camping outside in tents, but I'm not sure I trust either the bugs or late night partiers not to bite, sting, attack, trip over or spill known or unknown liquids upon, so I opt for inside. Many places are already spoken for, but I find a room off a hallway, barely more than a closet and set up camp. Woo hoo. I'm in. Not the Westin St Francis where I stayed last night, but it is somewhere to crash.

Off to fight the foo.