I sit here, music blaring in the background... it is some local band with a singer that sounds like a cross between Shawna Colvin and Sarah Mclaughlin, but the music... something from Sugar Ray perhaps? Just returned from Dave & Buster's at a mall that holds 4 stories of shops. To see so many people all dressed up and a lot of them in their late 20's is sort of strange, but fun at the same time. Spending so much time in Blacksburg has really taken me away from a lot of that.
The day has been long and the music plays in the background as I am attending a 'networking' event. But since I am blogging, I'm not really 'networking' at the moment. Networking at these things is really pretty strange for me. I am a people person through and through, but there is something about computer conferences that makes me think everyone just wants to talk about programming and the systems they built. Kind of boring to be honest. Though I did get a spark last night while listening to a man named Hal Helms. He's one of those people I have run into that when he speaks I just want to listen. It is almost as if wisdom just flows from his mouth in the way of experience in (of all things) programming. Just the way he thinks, with his mind more about some of the abstract problem solving practices, interests me. He pushes the drug that technologies come and go and I find myself willing to take the pill. That problem solving, (and I think this is what gets me) thinking or training yourself to think in a different way is necessary for the younger generation of software engineers to not only set themselves out but to almost better themselves. Either way, he makes me think and not just about code and that is something I like.
With that I will go, there are 3 guys here that are up for some fun and I don't know why they have found me???
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