Events that gather momentum, like some meditation retreats, like OSCON, don't then just dissipate to nothing immediately upon close. People radiate back into their lives, sharing vibes they picked up. Ripple effects.
I wandered Mt. Tabor with a friend, stumbling upon piano in the park. Ramona was there, and explained a little. One of the improvisors was her student. A duet.
We watched the sunset together and went our separate ways, me down the steep steps I'd come up, the recently upgraded flight from the lower to upper reservoirs.
Mt. Tabor's reservoirs are decorative and historic and make for cool lakes of Bull Run water, gravity fed to the city by some Uru technology, other-worldly, more Narnia than not.
As evidence of OSCON putting me in a trance, I rushed out to Best Buy for a bigger brighter monitor. I ripped through the TV stuff to get to my desktop where I watched documentaries about container shipping. I'm studying the trucking end of that business.
You'll be asking yourself what Open Source Convention has to do with "truckology" or container shipping. One answer is transportation is data intensive. Truckers use apps and GPS. Another answer is cloud architecture is all about "containers" these days, talking Docker and Kubernetes.
For those unsure of what I'm talking about: after the PC revolution (personal computers), then Free Software (Revolution OS), came Cloud Computing, which we're still exploring. One puts components together in new architectures. Microsoft is happy to let you spin up an instance of Ubuntu on Azure. That's the new world.
Missing from the picture was how to bring the cloud into the world of the work-study Global U student trucker, the coder behind the wheel. Code schools were springing up all over.
One could move from driving to programming, without necessarily changing knowledge domains. Keep thinking about trucking, just more from a back office angle. Or go the other direction, from a pod to a cab.
