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SIGGRAPH Day 2
The trip to LAX Saturday evening turned out to be very enjoyable. Since I now have a laptop, I brought along some DVDs and CD. I'd have 3.5 GB of MP3s on my laptop except that MS policy is to treat MP3s like pirate software and therefore we should never put them any MS machine. So after the announcement that people can pull out their toys, I opened up my CD case and started flipping through it. The woman next to me noticed the fact that my music collection screams lesbian, and we proceeded to spend the next 2 1/2 hours chatting. I managed to make another Melissa Ferrick and Fisher convert--those girls should so pay me for the evangelism work :> She turned to be a nice lesbian girl from Montana, a former police officer heading to LAX for TSA training.
Our hotel for SIGGRAPH is pretty swank, although I'm annoyed at the number of things in the room that do nothing but generate extra trash--the soap had a box and a wax-paper wrapper for something that could be sitting dry in the frickin' soap dish! SIGGRAPH gets going at 8:30am, so I only managed about 7 hours of sleep after hanging out with other Microsofties at the bar and having a light snack. The conference is being held at the LA convention center and is spread across the entire thing. While I spent most of the day in a single session in the West Hall, I had to trek back and forth to the South Hall way too many times for registration and various errands. While my session went to 5pm, I left a little early--the course had turned into an OEM love-fest for ATI & nVidia--and went to have a little lie-down before dinner.
I've heard the DRG group tends to live well and party hard on the road, and they certainly live up to their reputation. Dinner was very nice, they all consumed vast quantities of alcohol, and I learned a lot about them as well as babbled a fair amount myself. As one would expect, the group has long since adapted the Las Vegas saying to "What happens on the road, stays on the road" so don't expect details! I'm not much of a drinker myself, so hopefully that won't be perceived as a point of weakness :>
I'm looking forward to the show floor opening up tomorrow as there are a lot of publishers showing at SIGGRAPH with some seriously dangerous show specials on technical books. Tonight I'll be going to the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater, which is an annual CG animation film festival and usually a good time.
Our hotel for SIGGRAPH is pretty swank, although I'm annoyed at the number of things in the room that do nothing but generate extra trash--the soap had a box and a wax-paper wrapper for something that could be sitting dry in the frickin' soap dish! SIGGRAPH gets going at 8:30am, so I only managed about 7 hours of sleep after hanging out with other Microsofties at the bar and having a light snack. The conference is being held at the LA convention center and is spread across the entire thing. While I spent most of the day in a single session in the West Hall, I had to trek back and forth to the South Hall way too many times for registration and various errands. While my session went to 5pm, I left a little early--the course had turned into an OEM love-fest for ATI & nVidia--and went to have a little lie-down before dinner.
I've heard the DRG group tends to live well and party hard on the road, and they certainly live up to their reputation. Dinner was very nice, they all consumed vast quantities of alcohol, and I learned a lot about them as well as babbled a fair amount myself. As one would expect, the group has long since adapted the Las Vegas saying to "What happens on the road, stays on the road" so don't expect details! I'm not much of a drinker myself, so hopefully that won't be perceived as a point of weakness :>
I'm looking forward to the show floor opening up tomorrow as there are a lot of publishers showing at SIGGRAPH with some seriously dangerous show specials on technical books. Tonight I'll be going to the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater, which is an annual CG animation film festival and usually a good time.