Last night Rose and I went to see w00tstock at the Aladdin Theater. It was freakin' awesome. If you live in Chicago or Minneapolis (the next stops on the tour), you need to go see it when it comes to town. I have to admit, other than Adam Savage and Wil Wheaton, I hadn't heard of any of the acts before the show. I was a bit skeptical about the whole thing. Alas. It was 4+ hours of win. I know, it's billed as "3 Hours of Geeks & Music," but it went way over.

Since they expressly released the content of the show under a Creative Commons NC-BY license, the whole show has probably been posted, bit by bit, to YouTube by now.

Even though the show went hours over time, I stayed until the very end for autographs. (Note: I'll post pictures later.) The autographs were being done from the bar area where the Aladdin usually serves pizza. The line went across the lobby, up the stairs, across the balcony, down the other stairs, and out on to the side walk. I was fourth from last. I get up to the front, have a little chit chat with Paul and Storm, but I'm really waiting to meet Adam. Of course, by the time I got there, I couldn't think of "my favorite episode." It came to me this morning. Three words: exploding cement truck.

Instead, all I can think of is Tori whacking his knee. That episode drove me nuts! They kept replaying that clip over and over again. Every time I got this shot of sympathy pain in my left knee... that I damaged in a skiing accident. So, that's what I told Adam about. As soon as I mentioned that episode, his facial expression changed. "I wasn't at that shoot," he tells me, "but I soon as I saw that set-up I said, 'What the hell are they thinking?'" And then we had a decent conversation about it. It was really cool.