Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Turned out to be a fantastic day for the First Flush Festival at the Charleston Tea Plantation. Met up with a few people from the photo meetup group and wandered around enjoying the festival and taking pictures.
This is what I came back with
A tin of green tea, two peach and two of the First Flush to resupply my stock from last year.
Hard to believe, but May 16 will make it 3 years now since the inaugural Lowcountry Bloggers meetup (yes Chuck, I know you and Joan and a couple others met up before that).
From that very first meetup at Toucan Reef (now called Harbor Grille), the Lowcountry blogging community has grown from a few dozen blogs to well over 400 that are being rounded up and aggregated at lowcountrybloggers.com and lowcountryblogroll.com. It’s a community that’s grown to encompass not just bloggers, but Twitter users and just about every other social web thing out there.
Doesn’t seem like it’s been only three years. I feel like I’ve known the people I’ve met through LCB a lot longer than three years. I’ve met a lot of really great people through their blogs (and tweets), and being able to meet them in person has been pretty awesome.
To celebrate the occasion, I’ve checked with Harbor Grille to make sure their patio will be available and they’ve said it should be no problem. So join me and a few others returning to the scene of the crimewhere Dan helped kick everything off.
Oh, and don’t feel like you have to be a blogger to join in. Come hang out with us even if you’re a non-blogger. We don’t bite (pretty sure most of us don’t anyway).
This is the Encore in Las Vegas. Seeing this reminded me of the dead pixel in Google Earth photo
There’s still time to register for Southeast LinuxFest. Space at the Comfort Inn, the offical SELF hotel, is running low but there are still rooms in the SELF block available.
The list of speakers includes notable names from Zenoss, Google, Redhat, Fedora, Digium and others. There will also be breakout sessions that will cover topics of interest to anybody involved in using open source. Whether you’re a hardcore Linux/Opensource geek or new to the whole opensource world, SELF will have something for you. Check out the exhibitors to find out more about them or meet other like-minded users and see what they’re doing with Linux/OSS.
SELF is free to attend, but if you register as a paid supporter, you’ll also get the spiffy SELF shirt.
Whew, GRE is over and done with now. Time to get back to everything else that I’m supposed to be doing.
The exam turned out to be not too bad, although my score on the verbal portion wasn’t quite as high as I expected. I’m pretty sure if I had put a little more effort into preparing, I could have done better. Fortunately I’m in a position where doing well on the GRE doesn’t really matter. If I ended up crashing and burning on the GRE and Clemson decided I didn’t meet their GRE standards, not the end of the world. I just continue on working and life goes on.
Glad it’s all over now. To celebrate, I think I’ll head out to the Terrace Hippodrome and catch Star Trek one more time. I’ll be there for the 8PM show if anybody wants to join me.