Starstruck

Oh, hi, it's Tom. Something happened yesterday that brought a word to mind, and I just wanted to talk about it with you guys. Let me give you a little background. Over on Seesmic yesterday, there was quite a bit of excitement as Harrison Ford George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and maybe, I don't know, was there somebody else there too? I don't know. Kate Capshaw was there or not. I didn't see that part. But I know that those, that Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas made short seismic videos and were interviewed, I think from Cannes, and those videos were going up live in the Seesmic timeline. Now, uh, there was no, uh, prior notice that this was going to happen, and, uh, so a lot of people were trying to get, uh, comments and questions into the hopper to, to try to ask of these celebrities, and And then eventually the traffic going to Seesmic apparently brought down their servers. And with bringing down their servers, also as a result of Seesmic plugins being in video comments now for many blogs, those blogs also went down. Now, you know, it's just, this happens, right? This happens. But the word that occurred to me is the word that I made the title of this video, which is starstruck. Now, being starstruck is one of those phenomenon that we all, I don't know if there are too many people who are over a certain age who would admit to being starstruck with great pride, right? I mean, usually, you know, people get kind of sheepish about being starstruck, but the fact is that we are all given to being starstruck. And of course, there are different kinds of stars who would strike each of us in different kinds of ways. You know, who would I be starstruck by? Well, you know, I guess I would be starstruck by Nelson Mandela. I guess I'd be starstruck by Van Morrison. You know, and that experience of being kind of, you know, excited in the special way that starstruck refers to, you know, kind of awe, you know, being taken in awe, even though we know that this is just a real person and we know that real people have to be somewhere at any particular place in time, moment in time, because of, you know, kind of the laws of the universe. If we are in the proximity of a star to whom we are likely to become starstruck, we know that experience of kind of, there's a disbelief, there's a sense of, you know, kind of, there's an excitement, there's a reflected glory. I was in a conversation with Robin Williams at TED a couple of months ago, and I wasn't exactly starstruck, but I watched some other people and saw them being starstruck. So my question for you is, uh, you ever been starstruck? And, uh, what's the story? Who was it? What was it like? And how do we distinguish being starstruck from other kinds of, uh, excitement? I don't know if that makes sense. Let me know, and I'll, uh— and, and as far as the seismic people are concerned, you know what, You have big events, they bring down your server. All it does is to show that this was a pretty exciting thing for a lot of people to experience. So, so take care and I'll see you guys again soon. Bye-bye.