Shoot, you should have told me that you go that weekend. I might have jumped over to SF to meet up. Too late, next time.

Anyhow, I was busy this month myself to put up some stuff on my blog that is probably of interest to you.

1st this post about ANSI Animation, which is not the same as ASCIImation nor the same as a Textmode Demo. Check it out.
http://www.roysac.com/blog/2008/01/ansi-animation.html

2nd this post about the history of the demoscene. It has a video embedded with a 90 min presentation by Tamas Polgar, the dude who wrote the Brief History of the Demoscene Vol.1 and still owes us the Vol.2
http://www.roysac.com/blog/2008/01/history-of-demoscene.html

I don’t know if you knew about this video. The presentation was in 2005 at the Assembly demoparty, but I just came across it a few days ago.

Cheers!
Carsten aka Roy/SAC