IgnitePortland: Asymptotically Approaching Zero Minutes

Some Math Fun1 : Ignite 1: 250 tickets in 3 months. Assuming 90 days even, we have 10,368 seconds/ticket Ignite 2: 400 tickets in 2 days. 432 seconds/ticket Ignite 3: 450 tickets in 22 hours.  176 seconds/ticket Ignite 4: 550 tickets in 3.5 hours. 22.9 seconds/ticket Ignite 5: 560 tickets in 5.5 minutes. 0.59 seconds/ticket Go on, graph it. It approximates an exponential curve. The equation seconds = 86153...

Okay, Calm Down, It’s Not About YOU, John! (or is it?)

Oh my god. If I had any kind of ego, It’d be stroked right now. Tickets for Ignite Portland 5 went in 5 minutes 29 seconds! Josh Bancroft writes: Update: WOW! That was INTENSE. All of the tickets, about 560 of them, were GONE in 5 minutes. Amazing. BUT! Don’t panic if you didn’t get a ticket. You can still sign up and get on the waitlist, and when people don’t confirm their tickets within 24...

Time For a Smoke Break

I wanted to have a post about my experience on Strange Love Live ready for Monday, but it’s difficult to do justice to that show, so it’s taking more time than I thought. Funny story about cigarette breaks: When I was in the military, I wasn’t smoking seriously. I’d have a cigarette about once or twice per week, maxing out at about one or two cigarettes per day at one point. I used to buy...