Glenn Block

Reflections on ALT.NET Seattle, breakfast

What do you do before you head over to a day of grueling open-space sessions? Why head to Ruby's diner for breakfast of course.

Here's my table with Jeremy Miller, Jason Grundy and Jarod Ferguson.

We weren't the only ones who showed up. That's Roy Osherove in the corner (without a guitar), and Scott Reynolds doing what looks like tweeting. The side profile is ~~Dru Sellers~~.Dustin Campbell

Others showed up as well like Udi Dahan and Don Demsak though they escaped my cameras wrath :-) Anyway, after eating our "Wheaties", we headed over to Digipen for the opening session. with full bellies and eager minds.

Published May 05 2008, 12:12 AM by gblock

Filed under: ALT.NET

Comments

Doc said:

"grueling open-space sessions"? GRUELING? You WILL be punished! The lords of Open Space will have their vengeance upon you, heathen!

# May 5, 2008 8:52 AM

Chris Patterson said:

Not to mention the friendly and helpful waitstaff that managed to bring the food out quickly while it was hot.

And that's not dsellers in the bottom picture, I'm not sure who it is but I don't think he lets his hair get quite that long!

Good times, good times.

# May 5, 2008 9:51 AM

Dustin Campbell said:

And of course, the person sitting across from Scott is me. Couldn't you have taken a shot that didn't capture my bald spot? :-)

# May 5, 2008 11:19 AM

Mike Stockdale said:

Hey, there's me sitting across from Roy! (and looking quite surly - well, it was *early* ...) Next to me is John and Laurel from O'Reilly and next to Roy is Buck. My brain was too overloaded to remember any last names...

# May 5, 2008 5:49 PM

gblock said:

@Doc, here's the definition from Wikipedia "any trying or exhausting procedure or experience. ".

Maybe it wasn't exhausting for you, but for me open space sessions are much more brain intensive.

I see that as a good thing!

# May 5, 2008 7:52 PM

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Glenn Block is the Technical Product Planner for the Client UX program at patterns & practices. As Product Planner he is responsible for driving the vision and creation of p&p client deliverables including the Web Client and Smart Client software factories. Prior to joining Microsoft, Glenn has lived in various roles being "in the trenches" with developers, including being responsible for the overall architecture and technology direction. He has worked in both large and small organizations building enterprise systems for financial services, manufacturing, and print & mail on multiple platforms including .NET and Java. His technology passions are in software frameworks, architecture and systems integration. He resides with his wife and 3 year old daughter in Seattle (his other passion).