One nice thing about PDC: there are plenty of free snacks, some of which are healthy, some of which, well, not so much…
Choose wisely, my geeky friends.
It’s a Silvetta 60-bass piano accordion, which is much smaller and lighter than my other ones. It’s perfect for schlepping to conferences, like the one I’m attending right now, as it’s easier to carry and fits very well within just about every plane’s overhead compartment:
Oh, the “Phileas Fogg” outfit is from Cory Doctorow’s wedding, which took place yesterday. It was a little bit magic show, a little bit Alice in Wonderland, a little bit steampunk and a whole lot of fun. Mazel tov, Alice and Cory!
Here’s a photo of Danny O’Brien and me flanking the happy groom:
I’ll post more photos from the wedding later.
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Leaving for L.A.
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
I leave for L.A. at a reasonable time this morning and land at 11:00 Pacific, after which I shall check into my hotel and scurry down to the Los Angeles Convention Center to catch the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008. It won’t be all geeky stuff, and I’m bringin’ the new travel sized red accordion with me.
The geeky stuff will get posted on my tech blog, Global Nerdy, while the more slice-of-life stuff will get posted here on Accordion Guy.
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Warming Up for PDC2008
I leave for Los Angeles tomorrow to attend Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (a.k.a. PDC2008). It’s typically the conference where Microsoft makes major tech announcements. I’ll be posting a slice-of-life travel diary here on the Accordion Guy blog, while the geekier stuff will end up in my tech blog, Global Nerdy, where they’re tagged PDC2008.
This song, which I’d forgotten about, just popped up on my speakers thanks to “random shuffle” and I thought I’d share it with you. It’s a cute little synthpop track from 1985 called Since Yesterday by Strawberry Switchblade, who had the “Gothic Lolita” look at least a full decade before the Japanese invented the subculture.
…you might want to include this with your invitations. The U.S. election campaign is giving hallowe’en-ers a lazy costume option; use this notice to head them off at the pass:
Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
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They Know Their Market
The folks at the Las Vegas tourism site Vegas.com have done their homework. They understand that a large number of people who come to visit fall into a very special demographic:
Yup, it’s real. If you go to vegas.com/douchebag, you’ll hit their page catering to the douchebag demographic — those guys who “love clubbing in Vegas, sleeping 8 guys to 1 room, and spray-on tans” and constantly refer to each other as “bro”. They’ve set up a Twitter account you can follow, as well as a “Vegas Douchebag” page on MySpace.
[Found via The Triumph of Bullshit.]