360Flex fragged RJ Owen on XboxLive

Tom and I were taking a break, playing a little Xbox, when we ran into RJ Owen online. I'm not much of a gamer so my Xbox avatar is whatever a base one looks like. Tom is totally into it, so his was this crazy tricked out warrior elf thing, that looked like Mr. T except it had 4 arms, and was purple, oh and had a tail. RJ was this totally bad ass space marine guy (His Xbox ID is redhurtmachine, look 'im up)


As my Avatar jumped up and down over and over and over, I asked, "Who should come to your session?" Then I stopped jumping.


His Marine guy pulled out some big gun with like 9 barrels and starts polishing it, "Anyone beginner to intermediate developers who want to get more out of the component set, anyone interested in understanding validateNow and how binding really works, and any guy or gal who just wants a little more hair on their chest."


Tom's Mr.T elf thing asked, "So, why should they come?"


"I don’t know if they know this yet, but Brad Umbaugh is going to speaking with me.  He’s a beautiful man worth beholding at least once before old age gets the better of him, and unfortunately that day is fast approaching.  Also, there will be flex happening."


My avatar stops moving completely, while I LOL in the real world. Once I had regained control of myself, I asked, "What's the goal of the session?"


Marine avatar guy starts to do push ups, I'm not sure why since I don't think Avatars can get anything from that, but hey, I'm not a gamer. "There are a lot of things I didn’t learn about Flex until recently despite having developed about it for a long time.  My goal is to help other people get there faster, and explain what’s going on under the covers with Flex."


I was trying to figure out how to select something from my inventory, and accidentally vaporized RJ. "Uh. oh crap."


Toms elf thing walks over, "Don't worry, he'll be right back."


Sure enough, RJ respawned just a little ways away. "Dude! Un-cool!"


Trying to keep RJ from killing my bland n00b avatar Tom asked, "What two sessions are you looking forward to, RJ?"


He pulls out the Sword of Ultimate Truth (that's right!!), "That's easy, I’m really excited to see how this “TBD - Flex 4 or Open Source Flex “ thing turns out.  I’m really excited about the future of the framework.    I’m also excited about Josh  Tynjala’s “Polishing Components for the Masses.”  I think it’s going to be somewhat similar to our talk but more in depth, and I’ve learned a lot from Josh and his blog about component development as we’ve prepared.  He’s a smart guy with a lot of experience to share."


Toms avatar nodded, mine sat down, then jumped up and dropped all of it's gear, damnit! Tom asked what RJ would tell folks that might be fence sitting on whether to attend or not.


RJ musta been getting bored of watching my avatar have seizures, he was turning to leave. "Think about how you’ll feel the next time you’re in a company meeting wearing your business-casual khaki’s and polo shirt, and you look over, and your friend is wearing the same thing, except his polo shirt is from the 360|Flex conference.  Aren’t you going to wish you had one?  What?  You don’t work in one of those places?  Neither do I, but you might again some day.  You’d better come, just in case."


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