An Event Apart, Chicago 2007
August 25, 2007
I’ll be attending An Event Apart in Chicago on August 27 and 28, 2007. I look forward to seeing other Web Design folk swarming about with MacBooks and iPhones, much like I will be.
I also look forward to meeting my man Dan Cederholm, who I admire greatly.
I certainly hope I get to say thanks to the fascinating Jeffrey Zeldman, who kindly responded to an email I sent him circa 2001 after I read his first book, and unknowingly encouraged me just enough to keep doing what I was doing…and look where I’m at now! I just did a quick search and found that very email saved in my archive:
Subject: your note to zeldman.com
From: jeffrey@zeldman.com
Date: December 18, 2001 9:58:30 AM GMT-05:00
To: ryan@masuga.com> No offense, but the picture of that beautiful woman you had up last week is much more inviting than your mug in the bathroom I’m being treated to now.
> JZ, you are doing good things. Allow me to write “JZ, you are doing good things” one more time.
>“Taking Your Talent to the Web” really helped me understand what it is I’m trying to do.
> I enjoy your site daily. Thanks for ‘being there’.no offense taken. i agree with you.
thanks for the kind words and the subtle jokes.
your site is beautiful. you’re a really good designer. dig that orange kitchen.
thanks for writing!jeffrey
I’ll see you there!
UPDATE: I now have Event Apart photos posted over at flickr.
