{"id":605,"date":"2011-11-29T12:39:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T12:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/sushi-anyone\/"},"modified":"2016-01-22T17:59:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T17:59:27","slug":"sushi-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/sushi-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Sushi Anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&rsquo;s well-attended AU Speaker Reception took place at the exotic nightclub <a title=\"Tao\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taolasvegas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tao<\/a> in the Venetian. In a darkened oriental-themed setting with multi-armed goddesses, loud rock music, and spinning lights, the speakers enjoyed themselves with lots of conversation and laughter. Servers wandered around offering drinks, 4 types of sushi, spring rolls, coconut shrimp with mustard sauce, grilled asparagus, and pork dumplings. Old acquaintances reconnected, and many made new friends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/au.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010536b53a9f970b01543794b982970c-pi\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;border-width: 0px\" title=\"Joseph Wurcher and Gary Rosen\" src=\"http:\/\/au.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010536b53a9f970b015393c1665f970b-pi\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Joseph Wurcher and Gary Rosen\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>The speakers were joined by <a title=\"Joseph Wurcher\" href=\"http:\/\/au.autodesk.com\/?nd=e_my_profile&amp;account_id=99773&amp;member_name=wurcher\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Wurcher<\/a>, AU Program Development at Autodesk and <a title=\"Lynn Allen's Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lynn.blogs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lynn Allen<\/a>, Autodesk Technical Evangelist.<\/p>\n<p>I had a great time talking to veteran speakers Jerry Berns, who is teaching \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/au.autodesk.com\/?nd=event_class&amp;session_id=9332&amp;jid=1759489\">Enhance AutoCAD\u00ae Designs with Autodesk\u00ae Sketchbook\u00ae Designer<\/a>\u201d this year, and <a title=\"Jean's Classes\" href=\"http:\/\/au.autodesk.com\/?nd=auv2011_class_catalog&amp;filter_date=&amp;filter_time=&amp;filter_type=&amp;filter_track=&amp;filter_powertrack=&amp;filter_software=&amp;filter_focus=&amp;filter_audience=&amp;filter_expertise=&amp;filter_speaker=145794&amp;filter_keywords=\" target=\"_self\">Jeanne Aarhus<\/a> who is teaching 4 classes on-site in Las Vegas plus 2 AU Virtual classes.&nbsp; How does she do it?<\/p>\n<p>It was fun to meet some of the other speakers as well including <a title=\"Jim's Classes\" href=\"http:\/\/au.autodesk.com\/?nd=auv2011_class_catalog&amp;filter_date=&amp;filter_time=&amp;filter_type=&amp;filter_track=&amp;filter_powertrack=&amp;filter_software=&amp;filter_focus=&amp;filter_audience=&amp;filter_expertise=&amp;filter_speaker=100312&amp;filter_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Balding<\/a>, <a title=\"Gary's Class\" href=\"http:\/\/au.autodesk.com\/?nd=auv2011_class_catalog&amp;filter_date=&amp;filter_time=&amp;filter_type=&amp;filter_track=&amp;filter_powertrack=&amp;filter_software=&amp;filter_focus=&amp;filter_audience=&amp;filter_expertise=&amp;filter_speaker=114694&amp;filter_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Rosen<\/a>, <a title=\"Brian's Class\" href=\"http:\/\/au.autodesk.com\/?nd=auv2011_class_catalog&amp;filter_date=&amp;filter_time=&amp;filter_type=&amp;filter_track=&amp;filter_powertrack=&amp;filter_software=&amp;filter_focus=&amp;filter_audience=&amp;filter_expertise=&amp;filter_speaker=104743&amp;filter_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Mackey<\/a>, <a title=\"Denise's Class\" href=\"http:\/\/au.autodesk.com\/?nd=auv2011_class_catalog&amp;filter_date=&amp;filter_time=&amp;filter_type=&amp;filter_track=&amp;filter_powertrack=&amp;filter_software=&amp;filter_focus=&amp;filter_audience=&amp;filter_expertise=&amp;filter_speaker=104386&amp;filter_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\">Denise Cox<\/a>, <a title=\"Nate's Classes\" href=\"http:\/\/au.autodesk.com\/?nd=auv2011_class_catalog&amp;filter_date=&amp;filter_time=&amp;filter_type=&amp;filter_track=&amp;filter_powertrack=&amp;filter_software=&amp;filter_focus=&amp;filter_audience=&amp;filter_expertise=&amp;filter_speaker=105212&amp;filter_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\">Nate Bartley<\/a>, Brian Juge and <a title=\"Ann's Classes\" href=\"http:\/\/au.autodesk.com\/?nd=auv2011_class_catalog&amp;filter_date=&amp;filter_time=&amp;filter_type=&amp;filter_track=&amp;filter_powertrack=&amp;filter_software=&amp;filter_focus=&amp;filter_audience=&amp;filter_expertise=&amp;filter_speaker=273195&amp;filter_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\">Ann Mazakas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\"><a href=\"http:\/\/au.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010536b53a9f970b01543794b9a0970c-pi\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;border-width: 0px\" title=\"(from left) Brian Juge, Denise Cox, Brian Mackey, Nate Barley\" src=\"http:\/\/au.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010536b53a9f970b01543794b9ad970c-pi\" border=\"0\" alt=\"(from left) Brian Juge, Denise Cox, Brian Mackey, Nate Barley\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/au.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010536b53a9f970b0162fd16a947970d-pi\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;border-width: 0px\" title=\"Jim Balding and Nauman Mysorewala\" src=\"http:\/\/au.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010536b53a9f970b0162fd16a950970d-pi\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Jim Balding and Nauman Mysorewala\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/au.autodesk.com\/?nd=auv2011_class_catalog&amp;filter_date=&amp;filter_time=&amp;filter_type=&amp;filter_track=&amp;filter_powertrack=&amp;filter_software=&amp;filter_focus=&amp;filter_audience=&amp;filter_expertise=&amp;filter_speaker=122031&amp;filter_keywords=\">Nauman Mysorewala<\/a>, who helped me with the flash on my camera and without whom I could not have captured any photos of this event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;sandy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&rsquo;s well-attended AU Speaker Reception took place at the exotic nightclub <a title=\"Tao\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taolasvegas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tao<\/a> in the Venetian. In a darkened oriental-themed setting with multi-armed goddesses, loud rock music, and spinning lights, the speakers enjoyed themselves with lots of conversation and laughter. Servers wandered around offering drinks, 4 types of sushi,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-au-2011","category-las-vegas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}