Some things I learned/observed/gleaned at the Event of the Year, in no particular order…

• It’s on.  World domination is imminent.  CouchDB!
• Walker Creek Ranch is beautiful, it’s people, giving.  Thanks for hosting us.  Please, have us back.
• Ted Leung was right: Beer enables community.  The Egyptians knew this, but CouchCampers discovered the Platonic manifestation of that concept this week.
• “Mongo” and “Java” are often winning punchlines to any joke, no matter the context.
• Telling someone that you write Java in your day job either elicits laughter or sympathy, EVEN FROM OTHER JAVA PEOPLE.  Oracle, take note.
• BigCouch is even cooler than I thought, and I already thought it was cool.  Thanks, Cloudant!
• Thanks, Stuart Langridge, for having the cojones to come and yell “Fix this!”
• Thanks, Josh Berkus, for reminding us not to reinvent the wheel.
• Thanks, Selena Deckelmann, for reminding us to “Drink!”
• Monsanto isn’t evil, as long as Ryan works there.
• Other than CouchDB, Node.js was on everyone’s lips.  Whither shall it go?
• Mikeal can grill.  Let no one say otherwise.
• It was great to meet Claire and JChris and AmySue and and and ad nauseam.  I enjoyed meeting all of you and consider myself lucky to have done so.
• Last, it has yet to be determined who is better at Interpretive Dance: Damian, or Wally, the Interpretive Dance Raccoon.  Future dance-offs must be scheduled.  May the best mammal win!

Another, more technical, post is coming after this one, I think.  Still processing.