Sometimes I get over my geek head

Most often I'm just a dad, youth pastor, student and friend. But every once in a while the Geek-O-Meter hits at 11 and I enter the world of the net. Today it happened and here's the story. I logged in to Twitter.com where I happened to see that Kevin Rose the founder of digg.com had posted a link to a website called qik.com. Qik is basically a web portal that allows you to stream live your web cell phone camera on the web. It also has a chat feature that allows you to interact with the people who are on video.

So Kevin had just picked up a friend of his from the San Francisco airport named Gary who runs the Wine Library.tv website. They were driving to Sonoma together to taste wine.

Anyways there were only a few of us watching the stream. I was chatting with Gary while Kevin drove. At one point in classic Lars fashion I asked Gary to punch Kevin in the neck while they were on the Golden Gate bridge. Gary reached over and punched him. At that point the world seemed very small to me. That I could chat with someone while they were driving in San Francisco over a cell network and I could watch him hit someone in the neck made me realize how connected everything is becoming.

So there it is. I'm a geek and recognize that to be the case. Today was interesting, at least it was to me.