Manilapalooza

Pix from Manilapalooza!

Dave Winer up front, discussing various and sundry and showing off Pike

Most of these pictures I took during the break.

here's Bob and Kate

Manila Grrls:

Julie, Susan, Sheila, Kate:

Here's Julie and Sheila, sharing a laugh over wacky and irreverent comments made by the photographer, and learned by the photographer from her mother:

And hey! you know who else was there? Dan Gillmor.. whom I met, and who consented to stand next to me while I poked my digital camera at us both:

Kate and I did the same thing.

Near the meeting room where we were, there was a fountain on the campus of De Anza College:

It's looking like the beginning buds of spring are showing up on some of the trees on campus

Back inside the meeting room, Matt Neuberg showed off his very own Frontier tee shirt

All the above pictures I processed in Photoshop during the second half. So, when things came to an end, I hopped it down to the front of the room to see if there was a spare ethernet connection I could use to upload them.

Andre restarted his powerbook again so that he could give me the IP number he'd used.

Next, time to go from De Anza to a place called La Fiesta in Mountain View. It so happened to be the gorgeous twilight time of day. Here we are, driving toward the sunset.

Once in the restaurant, drinking, eating, storytelling and picture-taking ensued.

We were so many in number that we ended up forming a second table.

During dinner, I came to learn a bit of what Dave referrs to as "Biermania"!

I imagine that he's got a similar picture of me, camera in hand. Bob, please post it! : ) (Later: he did!)

More pictures. Here I am with Dave Winer.

And here is Sheila, Bob "Biermania" Bierman, Moi, Dave

We later adjourned outside, where more margaritas were consumed, thanks to Ken Dow and his continual pitcher-pouring.

The area was lit by red floodlights....

Here's Brent, the birthday boy! Happy Birthday, Brent!

Dave and Andre:

Andre and Brent:

Check out the interesting highlights on Brent's glass. Here's a detail view:

Sheila, lit in red:

The two of us:

Finally, the whole group of us, standing around, reluctant to leave one another's fine company....

A lovely time! Let's do a gathering in L.A.! :D

Oh, and if you want to link to this page, you can use this URL:

http://2020Hindsight.org/manilapalooza

Comments

[Jake Savin]

Cool pictures! Thanks for posting them. I've got some more over here...

-J

[Robert Bierman]

The counterpart picture is at http://march25.editthispage.com/discuss/msgReader$299 .

[Stan Krute]

What a lovely set of pictures !

Especially lovely for those of us
who weren't able to be there.

Thanks Susan for this and all the rest
of your excellent communal glue.

[Karl Martino]

I need to throw in a me too! Me too!

Thanks for the pics!