BIL, beach and hot sauce

A few of you have noticed that I'm a little darker skinned than I was previously (see photo to left). Well, the explanation is simple, it's a recent photo and I was at the beach getting my ultra-tan on. I happened to be at the BIL Conference, and was in Monterey where the beaches are. BIL was cool; the proactive social evangelism by the people behind it seemed to work pretty well. Out of the 200 people there was only one super-freak who parasitized everyone's attention (you know who I'm talking about if you were there). I met two bloggers, Lexi Bright and Shannon Clark; we bonded over our interests in small-world networks. Speaking of blogs, about 20 people there seemed to know me from the blog. My face is pretty distinctive I guess.The nerd-quotient was out of control. There was always someone somewhere deriving a proof on a napkin ...