Lunch was uber interesting today.

I saw Chris Sells and Brian Jepson sitting at a table, and made straight for it. Through their web sites and presentations, it's easy to get an idea of what interests these guys, but I wanted to see their real sides.

Brian jumped right in without any prompting, and admitted that he:

"Is against mushrooms in principal, but will eat them."

Why?

"Because I'm afraid they are going to rise up and take over the world."

That's awesome. Not only can the guy code, talk, and edit books with the best, but he's nuts, too!

He then went on to discuss working at home, and what it's like to spend the entire day with his pets. As he was recounting a tale involving his cat taking down a full-grown, frothing at the beak wild turkey, Chris made the observation that Brian was telling the story from the cat's point of view, including the thoughts the cat was having at the time.

I'm pretty much just in awe. I really dug the guy's presentation yesterday, and that was before I even knew that he could communicate telepathically with animals.

It was so interesting that I forgot to eat anything. That's OK, though, because, thanks to some things I said about Java yesterday, I've been eating my words all morning, and am just totally stuffed.