Monthly Archives: April 2007

The Only Picture of Me from MinneBar

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 22, 2007

Courtesy of this site. That’s a sexy back of the head shot…

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MinneBar Conference Report

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 21, 2007

My stream-of-consciousness memoir on MinneBar. Had a blast at MinneBar. The space was a bit small and I think turnout was much higher than anyone anticipated, and it way hot (in the thermal sense), but it succeeded with flying colors at creating “something exciting by being in close proximity to lots of smart people”. Got [...]

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Sean Penn vs. Stephen Colbert

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 21, 2007

Sean Penn was on Stephen Colbert — it was awesome. They did a “Metaphor-Off“. It was seriously the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time.

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Why I Love My Current Gig

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 18, 2007

Back in the day, I was told to celebrate the small successes — if you’re at work, and you do something good, have a little party as a reward. Because of that, I have a tendency to literally throw my hands in the air when I accomplish something difficult at work. Normally, people ignore this [...]

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Some Highlights from the Upcoming unConference

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 18, 2007

Check out MinneBar’s schedule. The opening remarks are “A Highly Kinetic Semi Dangerous Exposition”, and they booked “Socializing, Nintendo Wii-playin’, and Nintendo DS Meetup” opposite “Rails web framework creator Interview/Q&A” (apparently they only want the hardcore in the Q&A). Lots of stuff for business types (“Marketing Your Technology Startup”), designer types (“Design 2.0: What’s a [...]

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