I’m booked to go to Portland for RailsConf in May. Though I wasn’t able to arrange to travel by train, which would have made it that much better (both because I enjoy traveling behind a locomotive and for the silly pun), I am looking forward immensely to the opportunity to meet a couple of people who I have known only through the Internet: Mark, with whom I’ve sparred, corresponded, and cultivated a friendship over the past half decade, and [Seth->], for whom I used to work at Macrobyte Resources and with whom I’ve also enjoyed a long, varied and fruitful correspondence over a similar span.

If any of the rest of you are going to be in Portland or know of anything I should make a point of not missing while I’m there, please drop a note!