macworld!
I went to my *first ever* MacWorld Expo yesterday! :) I haven't even hit my 1 year anniversary of having my titanium loverboy, but I've definitely turned into a fan of Apple products. Granted, I still remain somewhat level about the two, because PC's are still fine machines that have a lot to offer in and of themselves, and I am now well aware they BOTH do their fare share of crashing (because they're both computers after all, duh)! That said, I think I was meant to be a part of this community and am feeling quite at home surrounded by my new {equally as geeked on apple's ingenious, beautiful technology} friends.Yesterday, shortly after getting there, I ran into my friend Jeff Keller of DCResource (that I redesigned and it launched last year - however because I'm horribly behind on my website updates, you won't find it in my portfolio yet... tsk tsk on me!). Then, moments after we parted, just before I was about to ring to ask "where are we meeting again?" I ran into the Google/Blogger boys: Eric, Jason, Biz and Jason. Which naturally happened effortlessly, because of the circadian rhythms (as Eric would say :p).
So we all met up with "the others" for a mass group-o-bloggers-lunch trek to Specialty's Deli. Yummy sandwiches and even yummier cookies in hand, we marched over to Yerba Buena to eat, geek, and enjoy the spot of sun that chose to come out for the exact 30 minutes we were there. Yay!! There was some group shots taken by others with cameras (I didn't have mine, as that was one of the things stolen recently *weeps*), but I no worries, as with this crowd there were at least 5 snapping away. It's well documented w/o my help! huzzah!
I met a lot of new people I didn't know - and some I only had known of.. and got to catch up w/ Mai (who I know through her being Chris W's girlfriend) and talk music, which is of course - one of my favorite topics. :)
Update: Tons of photos on flickr of our blogger lunch. Tags: bloggerlunch, macworld and mwsf05. More to come as I find them posted...
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After lunch Eric, Ryan, Skylar and I all milled about the Expo, checking out all the booths. It was really nice to hang with these boys. I couldn't help but feel such a mutual respect between all of us that was so refreshing... I can't stand meeting people that are "too cool for school" - and all these guys are solid, sweethearts that I would totally set my sister up with (that is, if I had one around my age).
The expo is just a bunch of booths selling you stuff, but there definitely were some that peaked my interest. Namely: Alias Sketchbook & Corel Painter.. I've had Painter before on my PC, but Sketchbook looks similar and worth checking out. I got 30 day trials of both and am looking forward to playing. I want a BookEndz dock baaaad (however quarterly taxes, Apple Care and replacing my stolen items are #1 on my $$ list for now). The solar powered attachment by Solio looked cool... and I enjoyed walking through the digital art gallery.
Apple's new iPod Shuffle doesn't excite me too much. Well, OK maybe a little... I'd dig having the 1GB for the gym I suppose. It's really small & light - and I figure, it probably couldn't hurt to have something with me that only costs $100 vs. $500-$600. However, I'm quite excited to get the 60GB iPod Photo next. Bring on the GB's of music, I say!! I was hoping they'd announce a 100GB iPod or something, but not yet! haha. They did however announce the SWEETEST little Mac Mini that I'm stoked about. This allows people who have always said mac's are too expensive, to now get in on the fun! woohoo!
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Well, because Monday flew by and yesterday was a wash of mac/blogger/geekout I must get to work!!
Oh hey - tonite I'm hittin this Tsunami Relief show at 12 Galaxies that has an incredible line-up. Apparently it's going to be really low key technically, and all the musicians will only play about 3 songs each - share instruments, go acoustic, etc. Should be great! However, if you go, show up early as I think it just might sell out. Hope to see you there!
