Portrait of the 10,000th Shout

Some of you may know Kurt Sussman (aka @neophiliac) who can often be identified by his barefoot shoes, which he wears most of the time (he claims that people remember the shoes better than they remember him). We may never know the reason, but I am told that he was not wearing them in his moment of glory on that fateful day, Thursday, November 13th, when Kurt caught a ride back from the Thursday shizzup/tweetup breakfast with J-P Voilleque (aka @lawduck), who went to UGNW to work. Kurt picked up his laptop and joined him to finish setting up an email server for a client. He ordered a cup of coffee instead of his usual dry double cappucino. Bram Pitoyo came in and said hi, but sat with a potential client and missed the momentous occasion.

Luckily Kurt remembered to shout his location. Little did he know that he would soon become famous. What Kurt didn’t realize was that his innocent shout at the Urban Grind was the 10,000th shout on Shizzow - a momentous occasion and one for the history books. OK, maybe I’m overstating it just a teeny bit. While it probably won’t make it into the history books, we did talk about it on Twitter and are now talking about it here in this blog post.

If you don’t already know Kurt, you can also find him at this weekend’s Startup Workout event, which he organizes and hopes to turn into a regular event. He’s also been helping us expand Shizzow into Hawaii, where he lived for a couple of years. Now, if only I could turn that into a “business trip” involving fruity cocktails on the beach …