After the disappointment of missing the Great Design Hurts talk (partly due to me getting carried away in writing the last news post) I decided to do all the writing and content upload when back in the UK, which is where I am now. In my Jim Jams feeling really spaced out.

So Saturday, after missing the talk, I headed back to the hotel got my shit together and decided to head off to the Google party. This party set the theme for the rest of the evening — queues. I got down to the venue and the queue to get in stretched quite a way. With Ben from Beef already inside I decided to join the line and see what gave. Eventually it was me — the guys in front of me decided to try somewhere else and I tagged along to the Frog Design party. The chaps I went with were pretty cool especially a man named Zeke who hung out with us for the rest of the evening. He's a developer who dabbles in design and is at the start of his career. Was great to meet someone with so much enthusiasm about the industry and we chatted whilst in line at the Frog party queue.

A crazy moment then happened - in front of me there was a guy walking down the line handing out free ice creams. Oh shit - it was the Ice Cream Man.

Photo by Noah Kalina

To quickly fill in a picture - this guy contacted us about 3 years ago asking if we could help him design and build a site. His concept was cool - to drive around America in his ice cream truck to all the major festivals, hand out free ice cream and generally spread good vibes. Alas - because we had only just started TAK! we couldn't do the job (paying work first - boooo!)

I quickly flashed my TAK! button which I was wearing and watched his expression turn from a quick glance to a "no wayyyyyyyyy" stance. It was definately a great highlight of my short tour and we chatted for a while seeing what we'd both been up to since we ast spoke way back when. He's still handing out free ice creams and keeping the dream alive and has a very cool new site to show off.

The Frog Design party was pretty wack (stupid long beer queues) and after hooking back up with the gang we headed over to the 16bit party which (again) was queuing round the block. Bollox to it - back to Buffalo Billiards for rematches of Shuffle Board and beer.

(We won with a final shuffle(?) from the TAK! MVP)