Ignite Seattle Tomorrow

I wish I wasn't booked on Thursday, April 5th.  I really want to go to Ignite Seattle!  It's a collection of geeks who get together to discuss really interesting things like:

Bruce Leban (Google National Puzzlers' League) - What I Learned in Prison

Yes, I spent time in not one but two Massachusetts prisons and it was an educational experience in many ways. Find out why I went to prison and if I would do it again. Learn about the differences between "minimum" and "medium" security and how this applies to computer security. Learn what "good time," "man trap" and "code 100″ mean, why khaki pants were the required dress code, and other equally practical information. Don't ask about the dogs.

Christopher Johnson ( Phrasetrain The Name Inspector) - The Science (and Art) of Naming

Many of you have faced, or will face, the challenge of naming a company, a blog, a product, or a service. In this talk The Name Inspector will give uncensored voice to his inner geek and present a lightning intro to the science (and art) of names, drawing heavily on linguistics, cognitive science, and his own experience as a namer and name analyst. He'll talk about the mechanics of speech sound production, the symbolic properties of sounds, the structure of syllables, the poetics of names, the morphological types of names, the way words and their meanings are stored and accessed in memory, the conceptual principles of metaphor and metonymy at the root of word associations, and–using some prominent examples–not only what but HOW names mean.