This bird is headed north for the weekend to cover the Dwell on Design conference taking place in the fair city of San Francisco. We’ll resume regular programming as soon as we get set up in the “blogger’s bank,” a sort of wireless playpen with all the accoutrements to keep us sufficiently juiced, fed and at a safe distance from the rest of the non-bloggers (mostly ’cause we’ve been known to get a little vicious when we’re not getting a good connection).

Highlights tomorrow include Michael McDonough, Michelle Kaufmann, Alice Waters and of course, the man who has been following us to these things for quite some time, John Hockenberry. See y’all up there.

UPDATE: Read all of UnBeige’s Dwell on Design coverage.