Last night I: met some great tweople, misidentified 6 people (my bad, sorry), made funny faces at @wajiii then forgot I saw him (doh), didn’t spend any time at all with friends that came to see me (sorry guys), barely saw my husband (love you babe), watched some great presentations, bruised my feet (but my boots looked great) and felt loved and welcome by a big crowd of people at Ignite Portland 4…

Thank you!

Here’s the video shot by Linuxaid (thank you so much for having the videos up SO quickly AJ)

If that’s not enough Cami for you, then swing on over here to see the news story on Ignite.  It’s sure to make you cringe a little…

For those of you interested I’ll get my slides up over the weekend.  I spent almost no time in my bed last night and I’m feeling like it’s nap time.

Even if you don’t shower

or put on deodorant

or wear pants

or a shirt

or take your vitamins.

Even if you don’t feel like it

or you don’t think it will count…

If you do nothing else today, VOTE.

(If you’ve already voted you can totally ignore this)

All over the country people have been voting. Making a choice. Saying who they want to make the run for President of the United States of America (because the president of the house of Kaos position has already been filled).

Voices are crying out loud.

The end is getting so very near.

I mean, the Oregon primary is in clear view so you know we’re almost there. You know the Presidential Election is just around the corner.

The Oregon Primary Election is May 20, 2008 but if you’re a registered Oregon Voter you should have gotten your Voter’s Pamphlet and ballot by now…

Don’t let the date slip by unnoticed.

Don’t delay.

Get on it.

Vote it out, bitch.

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This public service message brought to you by CamiKaos… I really want Obama to win the nomination, but I’ll let you make your own decision.

Today we are off to see a beautiful thing. We are getting up and out the door so very very early this morning to drive away off to the west to the Oregon Coast.

The ocean will be there of course. My favorite of all vast eternities the ocean is. Its beauty draws me in and I am at peace there with the waves threatening to tickle my toes or pull me into their depths.

The ocean though is not the beautiful thing of which I speak. Today we are going to the beach to watch our friends join together. To make their family concrete. To give their vows to one another.

I am so pleased for them.

I know it’s been all over the news so I will be surprised if any of you haven’t heard about Oregon Representative David Wu’s bizarre speech about Klingons & Vulcans in the White house and how we shouldn’t allow the “Faux Klingons” who “have never fought a battle of their own” to send real Americans off to war.

I have a few things to say here.

First: He isn’t necessarily wrong, but is there a way he could have voiced his opinion with out the Trek spin on the matter? I mean come on, I sleep in my Star Fleet Academy t-shirt (thank you Mike it is super soft) but I wouldn’t shove it in the face of the House of Representatives…

Second: Thank you Mr. Wu for making Oregonians look even crazier to the rest of the world than we already look.

Third: Am I wrong about this? The man is passionate about his politics and he is also passionate about his Trek. Is that so wrong? I kind of think it is (not the passions, the combining of them). While Trek is a classic American cultural touchstone it is also a fictional television show. How would I feel if politicians started comparing our current political climate & dealings to American Idol, That 70′s Show, Gilmore Girls or Smallville? I would feel like I live in a world of political lunacy…

Oh my… there is the point of all this… We DO live in a world of political lunacy…

beam me up nuthouse