[from awesome site icanhascheezeburger]

Apart from the gratuitous laughter you will experience following the above link (which rocks the universe), I wanted to get your attention for the following upcoming events:

SUNDAY, April 15 - ignite!Expo

If you had five minutes on stage at Web 2.0 Expo what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Tell us your thoughts on Web 2.0? Would you pitch a business? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? More info. Submit your talk.

MONDAY, April 16 - 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. - Community Roundtable

Make sure to sign up here and register yourself for the free Web 2.0 Expo expo-only pass, that will get you into lots of events throughout the week. I’m super excited about the people signed up. I think we’re going to have some great discussions.

MONDAY, April 16 - 8 p.m. - 2 a.m. - Web 2.0 Expo Meetup and Drinkup

At the House of Shields. It looks like it’s going to be packed!

TUESDAY, April 17 - 1 p.m. - 7 p.m. - Web2Open + Mashroom (day1)

Make sure to sign up here and register yourself for the free Web 2.0 Expo expo-only pass, that will get you in.

TUESDAY April 17 - 8 p.m. - 2 a.m. - im in ur web2open partyz drinkin ur beerz: Web2Open Party

Hosted by Viddler, Citizen Agency, Ma.gnolia, JanRain and Scrapblog at Varnish Fine Arts. Funz.

WEDNESDAY, April 18 - 1 p.m. - 7 p.m. - Web2Open + Mashroom (day2)

Make sure to sign up here and register yourself for the free Web 2.0 Expo expo-only pass, that will get you in.

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Needless to say, Sunday-Wednesday will be a very busy time, filled with events and amazing opportunities for presenting, networking, etc. If you have to miss it, that’s a bummer. If you have pesky work in the way, you need to tell them that the future of their company relies on you getting your butt out to all of this great stuff. You sitting in the office will do them no good. (really, I’m serious)

But, if that doesn’t work, as a consolation I’ll leave you with this: