Some thoughts I had on my way home from WordCamp Grand Rapids 2012:
- A long car ride is better shared
- Even better: a long car is best shared by a fellow geek who you can learn lots from
- Pre-conference speaker parties are the best type of party
- Grand Rapids is full of breweries
- These breweries contain lots of good food
- Don't leave your brand new macbook air box sitting on your car seat parked in a parking lot
- If you decide to ignore the previous rule then don't be surprised when someone has broken into your car and stolen your laptop
- Brian Richards (@rzen) knows how to make a brilliant conference badge/book
- Ryan Imel (@ryanimel) puts on a hell of show
- Brian Richards also knows how to organize one hell of a conference
- #bathroomnirvana is a thing
- I should really time out my speech a little better so I don't finish at the 13 minute mark
- Free hoodies and shirts are really awesome
- Mark Jaquith is really tall!
- I think @jjj & @jaquith were literally the giants on who's shoulders we stand on
- @theandystratton is a really nice guy (you know underneath the hard exterior)
- Constant stomache butterflies is not a fun way to spend 5+ days
- meeting my peers in the WP community is such an inspiring experience
- I continue to be impressed by how much utility there is in twitter
- Most especially at a gathering of people (like at a conference)
- To be so closely tied to people digitally and for that to be completely irrelevant to physical proximity is a wonder that my brain is still trying to decipher
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ConferencesWordCamps are insanely amazing!