The most sarcastic, opinionated, charming and most loved of all of the thinktank members is Aaron Chronister, also known as the Mad Hat. Aaron is a famous SEO, who has a few interesting tricks up his sleeve.

Aaron is my super hero for a few reasons. One of which was when he took the time one of my first years of pubcon to spill all the beans on how to do great SEO, while his competitor sat next to us. The part that made it so funny, was that his number one competitor was hearing all the secrets that Aaron was using to beat him, but the competitor was terribly frustrated because he was so intoxicated he knew he would never remember any of it!

Aaron also had one of the most entertaining, if not the most entertaining blogs on the internet, until he caved in to fame and fortune, and has put it on hold to finish his book. This is a real book, with a real publisher and the whole bit. The rumored title, literally rumored because I pulled it off another site, not Aarons is BBQ makes everything better. (I just want to rank for that term for a few months till the book comes out!)

Aaron became uber famous when his “pull it out of thin air one day before Christmas” bacon explosion became world famous. They unveiled it I think on their best BBQ in the world website.

Aaron also is not afraid to use gratuitous cheesecake on his blog, so since his site is not up, I am adding this pic. It has nothing to do with my story, except that Aaron is a bit of a hillbilly and I think this picture captures that viewpoint.

In fact Aaron and his crew actually took something like 4th in the world BBQ championships which is unbelievable.

So somehow I conned persuaded Aaron this year to make Bacon Explosions for everyone at thinktank. I had never eaten one before, but everyone who had ever even stood within 15 feet of one of these monsters said they were fantastic.

On my way surfing, I grabbed one off the grill, just to get some food in me and was stopped dead in my tracks. The thing was perfect. Forget sushi, salads, or anything else I have ever eaten. This was the most perfect concoction of pork making love to pork that I had ever seen.

You can actually buy bacon explosions online here. It would almost be worth getting my site banned from google for paid blogging if Aaron were to send me one of these things every week for a new blog post, hint, hint! (Just kidding Matt

So this thing is dripping down my throat, just unbelievable. I had made it almost to the sand, turned around and came back to get another one.

Around this time at the thinktank the sun had also just come out, and about half of us went surfing, and the rest dined on pig loving pig and had the time of their lives. We ate like 300 pounds of this stuff split amongst around 50 people. I think it worked out to be around 6 pounds per person.

Do you guys have any idea how much fun it is to have a blog like this where you can write exactly what you want? And know that the people you are writing this crazy stuff about are going to be totally o.k. with it?

Aaron, thank you for making the event even more special, and calorie dense that it allready was!

If you want to see more pics of the bacon explosion picnic, just pop over to the baconey gallery here.