Category: Travel

  • Comdex: Blue Man Group

    November 10, 2001 … It’s Saturday night in Las Vegas. I just walked out of the Blue Man Group show at the Luxor. I have no idea how to describe it. Let’s just say I’m all out of weird.

  • Too many people with bags

    I’m at COMDEX with a few thousand of my closest friends. Suzanne is flying back today after out min-vacation this weekend (great day to fly, ain’t it). Anyway, I’m working my way through a maze of people and their bags … paper bags filled with more paper. T-shirts aren’t as freely distributed as they have…

  • Countdown to Comdex

    Friday is my last day in the office for a while. I fly to Las Vegas tomorrow in preparation for Comdex 2001. It won’t be the glorious Comdex of old … the show isn’t as important anymore, and the weak economy will have a small impact. I’ll just have to manage the tradeshow without toting…

  • The things I do for this company

    Well, pack your bags … it’s travel time again! Ok, not *your* bags. I’ll have to pack my bags, because it’s time for Brian’s Post-Terror Attack World Tour. The week of November 5th puts Brian in Tokyo, Japan. After that, I’m off to lovely Las Vegas for  Comdex. Then, after a relaxing Thanksgving in a…

  • Legos and Microchips

    Thursday, 10:26 AM, San Jose, CA. I have determined it is very hard to make the AMI corporate logo out of Lego blocks. It’s the last day of the Intel Developer Form (IDF) at the San Jose Convention Center. I packed up the booth about an hour ago, leaving three boxes and four pages of…

  • Return of the Rolling Luggage

    Tuesday … 9:30AM … San Jose Convention Center Yes, you can all relax now. I got my luggage back. My string of bad luggage luck got worked out yesterday. I had to hang out in the San Jose Airport Terminal A luggage claim for an hour, but I was rewarded with the return of my…