In the Tech episode we talk to Curtis about writing, his site 512 Words or Fewer and Puzzle Hunts.

SLL Episode 141: 512 Words, Stories and Puzzles with Curtis Chen

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In Afterhours things got away from us a little, but before we got out of hand Curtis read his 512 Words or Fewer piece “The Wren and the Hen and the Men in the Pen”.  Other than that (which was my favorite part of the show) Dr Normal introduced us to his alien “friend”, he ranted on his opinion of the work of Joss Whedon and then we talked about the sad, anger inducing, untimely end of the Cort and Fatboy show.  For those of you who missed it Bobby “Fatboy” Roberts joined us on last week’s episode.  You can find the Tech Edition and Afterhours episodes with Bobby and Will Radik here.

SLL Episode 142: Afterhours with Curtis Chen

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Cort & Fatboy: We’re sad to see you guys off the radio, but we’re hoping you’ll pop back up soon to bring us all the smartassery the Portland people have come to love from you guys.  The SLL Studio is open to you if you need it.

photo courtesy of Aaron Hockley

In a departure from the everyday… or every week as is the case with us, we did our show live from BarCamp Portland 3!  For the Tech Edition we talked to Amy Farrell and Todd Kenefsky two of the organizers of BarCamp Portland 3, then to David Kominsky and Eva Schweber of CubeSpace.  Having four guests in about 30 minutes really made the episode fly past.  Then it was time for Afterhours, and in the spirit of BarCamp we didn’t book any of our guests until Friday night at BarCamp.  People who wanted to come on the show were able to slap a giant sticky note up on the wall under the Strange Love Live sign.

We wound up with some amazing guests: @verso, @sparCKL, @yuetsu, @znmeb, @rmyth, @swagnerdesigns, @ctb, @sh1mmer, @alainbloch, @toonlet, @dom and @SarahDavies.   That’s 12 guests!  So much was said that I can’t possibly cover it all here, so watch the episodes or give them a listen.

SLL Episode 98: BarCamp Portland 2009

SLL Episode 99: Afterhours at Barcamp Portland

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Join us live Friday May 8th at 10 pm with Vidoop‘s Troy Harlan and Sam Alexander, then we’ll kick off Afterhours with music from No Kind Of Rider!

Oh… did I mention it’ll be our 100th episode?