Scott Slalom Shin Guards
It’s been a long time since my high school alpine ski racing days, but it seems like I get a chance to bash some gates every now and then. I always regret it though when my shins/knees get bruised up, and my snow pants get torn sometimes. This past Friday, I found a pair of “like new” Scott shin guards at Value Village on Centennial Blvd.. Only cost me $5! They aren’t brand new, show some signs of being packed around or possibly worn, but they don’t look like they’ve hit a gate yet.
Can’t wait to get the chance to break them in… I love bashing slalom gates!
This past weekend (Sept 19-20) and Portland, Oregon were the setting for the likes of
- Matt Mullenweg and Jane Wells of Automattic
- Scott Porad from the icancheezburger network
- Tyler Sticka, designer at Waggener Edstrom
- Will Norris, one of the core developers of Shibboleth and author of the OpenID plugin for WordPress
- viper007bond, one of the most prolific WordPress plugin developers
- Aaron Hockley, founder of the Portland WordPress Users Group
- Justin Kistner, senior manager of social media at WebTrends (and designer of some of the sites I currently manage)
- Rick Turoczy, from Silicon Florist, a blog about web startups in the Portland area
- and countless others
These folks and others, along with awesome food from Whiffies Pies, Windmer Beer, Zupans, Resers, Coconut Bliss ice cream, Cup Cake Jones— and the awesome folks at WebTrends for providing the venue for the event— made for an AMAZING WordCamp.
Also a big thanks to my buddy Tristan for letting me crash at his apartment Saturday night and helping me find my way around town. Tristan’s former roommate from Eugene, Aaron was also there. They both live and do freelance web development in Portland, so it was also a great networking opportunity for them.
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Kind of a placeholder post for now, I’ll try to do a write up after this thing wraps up.
