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**Nikolai Vasquez:** I listen to you guys all the time... |
**Jerod Santo:** Yeah? |
**Nikolai Vasquez:** I love it. |
**Jerod Santo:** Awesome. |
**Nikolai Vasquez:** Great conversations. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Glad to get you on the mic then, man. |
**Break:** \[31:28\] |
**Colin Dean:** So I'm Colin Dean. I run Code & Supply up in Pittsburgh, a community of software professionals. We've run our own conferences for a long time too, and I've wanted to come to Strange Loop for a long time. About 10 years or so since the first time I heard about it. Strange Loop has influenced our conferen... |
My girlfriend, longtime partner, about 15 years, has usually had a dog show on this weekend. She's a semi-professional handler and breeder, and it just so happens that on this particular year, two shows swapped weekends. So for the first time I haven't had to stay home and take care of our many, many dogs... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** How many dogs have you got? |
**Colin Dean:** We've got eight. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Eight dogs?! |
**Colin Dean:** And that's just what is at our house \[unintelligible 00:32:38.29\] |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Question for you... As strange as this conference can be - because it's called Strange Loop - could you have brought the dogs? |
**Jerod Santo:** \[laughs\] |
**Colin Dean:** I probably could have gotten a beagle here. We breed beagles and vizslas. I probably could have gotten a beagle here, especially one of our smaller beagles. The vizslas don't travel super-well, especially on planes... Well, they travel just fine in cars, but they're too big for planes. I'd have to put t... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Could you get a bunch of seats for your dogs on the plane? Or dogs have to be in the stowing area, or whatever it's called? |
**Colin Dean:** For the most part, they have to be -- if they're in a crate, they have to be in cargo. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Right. |
**Jerod Santo:** Could you have gotten a private jet, with just you and the dogs...? |
**Colin Dean:** Oh, then we'd just load them up. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Load them up, right? |
**Colin Dean:** Get some cuddles in the cabin, you know... \[laughter\] |
**Jerod Santo:** Bring your girlfriend with you... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** But either way, it's been a journey getting here, right? You've tried a couple times, and to no avail, schedules didn't align... And finally, shows swapped schedules, and here you are. How's it feel to make it to the first and final for you? |
**Colin Dean:** It's great so far. I've had some great interactions with random people, and met some people... Seen people that have come to my conferences, and that I've met at other conferences over the years... I look a lot different; I've put on a little bit of weight since the last time I've put on a conference, a... |
**Jerod Santo:** Oh. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** There's a signature top hat? |
**Jerod Santo:** We didn't even know about the signature top hat. |
**Colin Dean:** Yeah. If you go in the Changelog Slack, you'll see the picture of me and it. And I use that picture everywhere. People are always like "Oh, you're the top hat guy." |
**Adam Stacoviak:** That makes more sense now, because if you would have said you were that Colin Dean, I would know. You didn't see that Colin Dean in Slack, with the top hat? I've seen that Colin Dean. So you're that Colin Dean? |
**Colin Dean:** I'm that Colin Dean. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Oh, my gosh! Do you see how this works in the world? |
**Jerod Santo:** The real world is so weird... \[laughter\] |
**Colin Dean:** It's weird to interact with people online, and then you meet them in-person... |
**Jerod Santo:** Yeah, it is. |
**Colin Dean:** The team that I worked on for work - I got moved on to in like early 2021... Literally, none of us had ever met each other in-person, because we'd all started at Target like during the pandemic, or we had been working on completely different teams prior to the pandemic. And then suddenly, I don't know, ... |
**Jerod Santo:** Yeah. |
**Colin Dean:** I'm like "Yeah..." I had my hat on, and they're like "Oh, but the hat's real. That's how I knew you." |
**Adam Stacoviak:** And it adds some interest too, I'm sure; at least to the assumption of the height. So why no top hat? What made you leave it at home? |
**Jerod Santo:** Good question. |
**Colin Dean:** I forgot it... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** You forgot it? |
**Colin Dean:** Yeah, I thought I had loaded it in the car the night before, and it wasn't until I was already onto the parkway. And I probably could have had time to double-back and get it, but it would have been really close. By the time I got to my gate, I only had about five minutes, 10 minutes wait before the boar... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** No way... You're that kind of person? |
**Colin Dean:** Yeah. Yeah. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Is that normal for you? |
**Colin Dean:** \[35:51\] Pretty much. There are times -- if it's like a later afternoon flight, yeah, I'll show up three hours early and I'll just sit there and compute a bit. But if it's like a morning flight like mine -- not an early morning flight, but if it's a morning flight... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** What time was your flight? |
**Colin Dean:** It was like 10 o'clock. |
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