Last week, I went to an Israel21c happy hour hosting a group of techie bloggers from the Bay Area with What War Zone??? secret field correspondent "Melissa." The group was brought over by the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco, presumably to see life in Israel, our impressive hi-tech industry, and so on.
Upon entering, Melissa and I surveyed the premesis and after about five seconds, darted STRAIGHT for the fries. I ask you this, my loyal readers: at any point in life, does free food lose any of its luster? Are we too old to get excited by this? To be fair, we were both starving but the fact that it was on the house just added to the experience. (Did I mention the salad and bruschetta? Mmmmm.......)
If you stare at it long enough, you can actually see into heaven.
When shmoozing with a couple of people, one guy started to mention a couple of tech/media conferences he had recently been to: Com.Vention and Kinnernet. I wanted to say, "Umm…do you have a speech impediment?" Turns out...they're just clever names. Those tricky, tricky techies!
I managed to get a photo with one of the delegation participants. Anybody want to take a guess as to this man's identity?
Who's the guy on the left?
If he looks happy to be in this picture with me,
you might want to get your monitor looked at.
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I took a good hard look at those fries and suddenly I was swept into a daydream...Fritos used as edible spoons with the drippy, melty cheese that you can buy in a jar and heat up in the microwave. I have, on more than one occasion, referred to Fritos as "salty pieces of heaven". Which led to thoughts of handfulls of M&Ms--of course not organized by color because eaten by the handful it just doesn't matter (though, I can almost taste the difference between colors, can't you?). Which led to thoughts about Dreyer's Ice Cream--cookies and cream. Which, strangely enough, led to thoughts about crispy Garlic Dill Pickles, straight from the fridge.
Now I'm a little nauseous, but in a good way.
I hope that wasn't heaven because I think I should really elevate my standards... :-)
Is that Ilan Ziv, the filmmaker/blogger?
Nope...he's not Israeli. Everybody knows him by his first name only.
Based on your lues, I would guess he is a Bay-area blogger who is known by a single name... He doesn't look like Scoble (who uses his last, not first name) and I'm pretty sure Dan Lyons/FakeSteveJobs (Is Fake Steve considered a first name) is not in Israel. Arrgh -- now I really want to figure this out. Another hint please?
And Shabbat Shalom, of course.
The hint is in the subject of this post.
is that craig?
Mazal tov!
OMG! Mort's right -- It's TOTALLY Craig! SO COOL (and yes, clearly I am a nerd!)
what do i win?
(btw, your last few capchas have been really HARD!)
The first ever guest post?
Craig, eh?
Dannyslist. Hmm, my middle name is Craig, actually. Considering Israel's Craigslist is so weak, maybe I still have time to monopolize the Internet open house idea for the Israeli market.
Did you manage to meet my blogmama Deborah Schultz? She was one of the trip coordinators...
I didn't. I didn't get far past the free fries.
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