The expression on Amanda's face is classic. Jen Wade on the right and Molly Zero is the one standing in the middle. You can see John Scalzi itching his eye to the left.
Caoimhe and Corina. Every time I
look at this, I roll.
I have no idea what they were discussing
but the expression captured in time is hilarious.
The real Carolyn Burke is not actually so blue in life but rather tall, slender and very contained. I spoke with her at various points but never for any length of time. She sat to the right of me when we went for that very first lunch when I arrived in Pittsburgh. We ate at Dingbats. One moment: when they brought the bill they had tallied all of us onto the same bill. The waiter handed it to Carolyn who looked at it and promptly handed it to me. And then I quickly passed it on down to Amanda and Ryan to figure out but her reason wasn't the same as mine for passing it up. She is CANADIAN and the bill was of course, in American dollars. I didn't want to figure it out because I was overly tired and not very mathematically inclined at the moment. That is my excuse.
I do have a photo of Diane standing and speaking at the first session but since she looks like the Devil's wife with that red eye, I didn't think I should use it.
A session that turned out to be great fun. Stephen Deken, standing, and Columbine gave a great talk. Not technical really at all but I asked about the pros and cons of php and what code to learn first and even though I don't hand code, it isn't that hard. HTML I mean.
Part of the unch menu from second day. I sat between Jeff Gilson and Amy Lester. Columbine and Lynda directly across from me. EXCELLENT lunch companions. I can't remember when I've enjoyed a lunch out with people I've never met, more. This place was in the same mall type thing as Dingbats but on the third floor. I think it was the third floor. People got confused and went up and down the escalators a few too many times.
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