The drive to San Francisco went fast...half of it I listened to my first ever podcast, I'm not sure whether to be ashamed that I popped my podcast cherry, or that I did it so late. I listened to the Paul Di Filippo story Little Worker...which I found by chance in the 2 minutes I allotted to loading something interesting on my ipod. I found the link on boingboing.net

Then I picked up Aaron and we zipped down to Palo Alto. The drive from Palo Alto to drop Aaron off at close to midnight also went quick. Even the drive home went well, in spite of the nasty rain.

Some things were said...ideas expressed

"Sex is sex, peanut butter is what I enjoy" from Little Worker

"Teaching kids " (of refuges and conflict survivors) "is the single most effective thing you can do" - world changing speaker

"We can't keep doing what we are doing-it is toxic. We can't do more and more of what we have been doing." (my invert and subvert thought is that 'what we have been doing' _perhaps_ hasn't been just one thing. What we have been doing this last year differs from a decade ago. (it is a theory)

"Our future is currently unimaginable...once we can imagine it fighting for it is almost the easy part." "What is the kind of world we really want to live in"

What if the Golden Arches are all part of a world wide phased array antenna of some sort (my thought)

"I just think little girls should have RFID's for their ponies" Tamara (funnier with a rising little girl inflection at the end. Funny creepy, not totally funny haha )