Don't be upset if your driving along the roads in Lake Nona on March 6th and you get stuck behind a troupe of MindCometeers riding their bicycles. Its all for a great cause.

This year MindComet will be riding in the Tour de Cure to raise money for the American Diabetes Association. We started a Team we are calling Team SpeedBump. Hopefully no one will be run over, but we may slow down traffic a bit. Anyone is invited to join and ride with us but here is who you can expect to see.

James: He is riding 74 miles on a fancy road-bike that is made of space age materials. Its not that this is a race its just James does not do anything... well at a normal level. Its always dialed up to eleven for that guy.

Carney: He is also riding 74 miles. Mostly likely, Carney and James will be seen arguing about wether Google is Skynet, if something Carney found on Reddit is actually cool, or Carney will be talking about Science and James will pretending to understand.

Josh Cox: Some say Josh trains on a bike that weighs a metric ton to increase endurance. Some say he rides uphill for 100 miles while singing a Scottish drinking without breaking a sweat. That may be true, but all we know is, when we asked him to ride he simply said ...OK.

Marcelle: Our President and CEO will be riding 25 miles with us. Marcelle has proven time and time again that she's tough as nails when it comes to a challenge. We expect her to be passing traffic on the highway while tweeting out her progress.

So help us out by donating to a great cause. Or you could get out and enjoy a fun day outside and ride with us. Click here for more information on Tour de Cure.

Or simply check out our team page.

This week has been busier than normal at MindComet. Luckily, some of us got a moment to let off some steam.

So here are two photos from this week - which one is your favorite?

Is it Mark & John at Social Fresh Tampa?




Or is it Will at the In Control Conference?




Or is it James and Stephanie cutting loose at the after party.

Andrew sent an email around the Office last week that asked: If you could eat lunch with three people (alive or dead) from your field, who would you choose?

Here are the answers we got from the crew:

Andrew: John Carmack, Gina Trapani and Nikola Tesla

Jen: Carl Jung, Albert Einstein and Jason Statham

Verble: Jesse Schell, John Lasseter and Steven Spielberg

Mark: Eric Hoffer, Clay Shirky and Theodore Roosevelt

Kenny: Brendan Dawes, Lee Brimelow and Leo Burnett

Kinbar: Oscar Wilde, William Faulkner and Jane Austen

Daissy: Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo and Paula Scher

Jeffrey: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

William: John Carmack, John Resig and Guy Kawasaki

Rick: John Lasseter, Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Rose

Doug: Steve Jobs, Seth Godin, and Alex Bogusky

Carney: Lawrence Lessig, John von Neumann and Alan Turing

Interestingly, these are the people who were picked more than once:

John Carmack

John Lasseter

Steve Jobs

I wonder what lunch with these three would be like.

At the end of the day, who would you pick to have lunch with?

We just take a moment and thank everyone who participated in both Drupal Camp 2011 and Social Media Conference 2011. Overall, we had close to 300 people from across the state learning about everything Drupal and social media.

Here's just a brief clip of Jeremy discussing Shopkick during his talk on location based services:



To learn more about Social Media Club Orlando, click here

See you next year!

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Courtesy of our friends at Archie McPhee.

Manhattan 4.33pm from Lizzie Oxby on Vimeo.

Director: Lizzie Oxby

A daydream to remind me of the joy of the New York skyline. "Daydreams" is one of my ongoing projects incorporating a series of observational thoughts. Manhattan 4.33pm is the latest short film made with three photographic stills which I brought to life (35 secs).

Manhattan: 4.33pm has been selected as a finalist in Raindance’s Welcome to the Extraordinary competition.

www.lizzieoxby.com

Those who know me, know that I'm a big fan of food -- 10th degree Shaolin Black-Belt fan of food. A foodie through and through. And as most Orlando foodies know, being a foodie in Orlando can be tough. Very tough. So when I spot new talent in a mostly food starved Orlando, it's always a treat.

Tony Adams, local chef at Big Wheel Provisions, is doing some work that really impresses me and is helping to raise the bar in O-Town. His latest project involves something very near and dear, launching a mobile food truck.

Best of luck Tony.

It took us a couple days to recover from the Friday's Great MindComet Chili Championship of the Universe!

The competition was fierce and and so was the voting - to vote, everyone was required to eat a small bowl from each competitor. In the end, everyone survived and fun was had by all. 6 competitor's entered the ring and 2 Winners were crowned.

And 2nd Place goes to John and his Walt's Favorite Chili. Here John shows off his prize:





Here's John description of his entry:





And 1st Prize (aka Championship of the Universe) goes to Jeremy and his 7 C's Chili. Here's the description of his entry which included homemade bacon:





And now the Winner shows off his prize - and no, its not the stuffed Lion on his head: