Opaque Lucidity

Cali-For-Ni-Yay

Kelli and I arrived safe and sound on the other side of the continent after a series of delays that became, after a while, maddening. We finally got to our hotel room at 3:30 AM this morning, then turned around and got up 7AM so we could go hear the two keynote addresses at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo.

The first keynote speaker was Leo Laporte of TechTV fame, who is now a very successful podcaster. The second keynote was given by Ronald Moore, the producer of Battlestar Galactica and a podcaster himself. Nothing new in either speech, but it's nice to hear them in real life.

Then I had something happen to me that has never happened before: total strangers looked at my name tag and knew who I was. In truth, most of them are NOT total strangers in that we have spoken via e-mail or I subscribe to their podcasts. But it felt odd to see that "light of recognition" on someone's face as they say, "So YOU'RE Matt Dattilo." Pictures of me are fairly rare on the web, so I wonder if they are surprised by what they see.

That's one question I don't ask.