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Wednesday, November 07, 2007 Me, Me, Me, Other people who write, Web/Tech

Sort of a “Life” theme here, no? We’ll get over it soon. We’re just jealous of those who have one. *cymbals*

Well, later this morning I’ll be shipping Miss Scarlet Fever and Master Fever Blister off to Daddy’s so I can take off my hazmat suit, have a decontaminating shower, and head up to Sausalito to hang out with Doug McConnell of Bay Area Backroads and OpenRoad.tv to talk about what we Interwebnetizens do “outside the box.” That’s a very nice way of saying, “when off our asses.” (Manners count.)

The first to be interviewed in the series, and a tough act to follow, is David Pescovitz of BoingBoing.com. Carl Bidleman, a crew member of Life Outside the Box, introduces the series in today’s OpenRoad.tv blog post:

Doug and I are TV guys who started working in this web world over two years ago and I’m amazed at how much of my life I now spend in front of a computer.  10-11 hours a day, six days a week.  It seems way out of whack and I got to wondering how others who make their living in the virtual world get reconnected to the real one.  So today we’re launching a new video blog series we call Life Outside the Box.  In the coming days and weeks we’ll post conversations with Rhett Butler of Mongabay.com, David Allen Ibsen of 5 Blogs Before Lunch, Mindy Roberts of The Mommy Blog, Scott Beale of Laughing Squid and Natalie Zee Drieu of craftzine.com about places where they love to spend their precious time.  But we’re very pleased to inaugurate the series with a guy we’ve come to like very much, David Pescovitz.  David is an editor of Boing Boing, one of the most popular blogs on the internet that bills itself as “a directory of wonderful things.” The editors report on internet esoterica, anomalies, and curiosities across an insanely wide range of topics, from innovative technology and contemporary art to culture and weird science.  The only filter is “interestingness.” And interestingness is exactly what David shared with Doug at one of his favorite off-line places, the Musee Mecanique on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, home of the legendary Laughing Sal.  Have a look.

I’m sure glad they got Ole Laughing Sal over with, so I don’t have the only room-clearing laugh in the series. I really don’t know what we’ll focus on, but we’ll start with coffee and chat near the water, so I pretty much don’t care. I’ll be miles and miles away from Sick Bay. For the moment.