Today I get to have lunch with a face and a name.

Rather, I get to have two lunches.

For the first, I'm having lunch with George Chen, a name you probably don't recognize, but someone with a face you'll almost certainly recognize from somewhere. George, aka "The Internet Guy," is a web developer who, as it happens, went to a photo shoot some years ago, and ended up as the Internet's stock-photo poster boy. Like Wil Wheaton, it's sometimes hard to remember that there's a real person behind the 5meg TIFF files. And yes, I'll see if I can get a picture with him. Like Ernie says, he's the next Curtis!

Hot on the heels of lunch #1, A co-worker and I are lunching with Matt Haughey to chat about net stuff. If you don't recognize his name, you'll almost certainly recognize his creation. Oooh. Now I just have to finally meet Ev and my homage to-do list will be complete!

Throw into the mix a meeting from 10 to 11 and another from 11 to noon and my day is 2/3rds gone.

Add into the mix my odd commute today. I went to sleep late (that's always a fair guess when you see me post at 1:30 in the morning) (but at least I got to see West Wing, Friends, Will & Grace, and half of Enterprise) so I decided to splurge and try out the new later train leaving at 8:02 from Emeryville. I was a little late, but luckily I knew that the train was later (28 minutes), and to add to that I decided to pick it up in Hayward, to make for a faster trek home tonight. So it turns out I was the only person to get on the train at Hayward, and I walked into an absolutely silent car. Downstairs was empty, and upstairs there was only one fellow traveller. Almost spooky. Fire up the powerbook, iTunes, and the Supreme Beings of Leisure cd I was listening to in the car and it gets downright otherworldly.

Now I'm between Fremont and Santa Clara, it's 9:30, and considering that I'll probably have to catch lightrail from the station, I'll be lucky if I get to work by 10:20.

Double-buh.