Hanging in the basement, watching Ray Kurzweil; up next
Saturday, February 26, 2005 at 9:25AM Dateline: Monterey Conference Center, Monterey CA, 26 February 2005
Boy, am I glad I asked about the goody bag! I saw all these attendees, boxing up gear and mailing them out via FEDEX in the main hallway, and figured the goody bag must be pretty substantial.
So I asked at registration, and they put together the speaker package for me: two big brown bags and a big packback full of gear. Also got two Matt Groenig-autographed comic books (Simpsons, Futurama) for comic-obsessed son Kevin. Noticed nice poster of my head shot from book in main hall. Will try to snatch that for trip home. Already located a nice poster tube.
Set-up here pretty cool on stage: bunch of work-station portable tables where you simply hook up your Mac (almost everyone has one, and they're all the big 19" screen, which I'm glad I didn't get because my full-size screen is big enough and the larger screens don't yield a wider keyboard--the only reason why I'd get it). So my laptop already on stage, with my Interlink RF clicker. Wired up with mike that sticks out from around left year on tiny stick.
After getting all wired up, hung out in hallway during break, and met Peter Schwartz. Very nice to see him again. He introduced me to his boss at Fortune and the guy who invented "Ask Jeeves."
Well, Kurweil looks like he's running out of time, based on the slides he scrolled through beforehand. I'm heading upstairs because the intro here is minimal and then you just pop up on stage and roll. I am doing the SysAdmin-Leviathan break and the A-to-Z-rule-set packages and that's it for 18 minutes. I will be flying!
Feels good to be so nervous though. It gets rare for me. Good news is countdown clock in back so I will always know where I am.
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