Andee from the internet.

Jesus. Even though I sit here in BCEC's blissfully HVACed hall, somehow my body is aware of how hot it really is outside. It's weird. The environment may be complerely air cooled, but I'm just as sluggish and lethargic as if they didn't have a/c up in here.

Yesterday SIGGRAPH opened to the public and it is totally International Geek Zoo. C and I spent a lot of time tooling around the art and emerging tech exhibits, which remind me quite a bit of the Imagination pavilion at Epcot Center. (I have crappy cell pics - somehow fuzzy 375x250 pixel shots somehow don't count as photography, so I have no qualms about getting around the no photos sign.) We also had a little bit of time exploring the show floor, which is amazing and huge and I still haven't seen all of it cause everyone - EVERYONE has something cool, from stereoscopic monitors to 3d printing to other neat stuff. Might do that for the second half of today if the Studio crew let me stash my laptop at their booth. (Beavis is heavy.)

I spent this morning watching all the way through the seven half hour animation theater reels. It was about the usual ratio of cool:neat:WTFM8:creepy:lame:yawn, but seemed mostly leaning towards the good end of that spectrum. I really hope someone from the Studio manages to pick up DVD sets of the Animation theaters and the Electronic theater, which I unfortunately do not have a cool enough pass to get into. Much woe, as the REALLY kickass big budget stuff is shown there.

I caught up with Scott Lang breifly yesterday and at some point I should call him and make plans to meet him for coffee, probably tomorrow. *chuckle* boy, yesterday morning I was all over the place mood wise and scott had the misfortune of being spotted by me smack in an overly hyper moment, which considering how ragged he seemed was about the last thing he really needed, but I've chilled out quite a bit since then. Still, he must have thought I was going to eat his head or something yesterday. But anyways... It's interesting being here at SIGGRAPH after wanting to go for nearly 12 years. Of course, 12 years ago I thought I was going to grow up and do something in the computer graphics and animation industry. I guess web development isn't that much of a sidestep really, but being around animators again and watching anzovin get all excited about demonstrating the Setup Machine really kinda brings that into focus. You really just never know what you'll be doing and where you'll end up in ten or even twelve years. I'm enjoying myself, don't get me wrong... but there is definitely a bit of "ROAD NOT TAKEN - EXIT 1/2 MILE" happening while I'm here. Makes me a little nostalgic and moody really, but I'm trying not to let it bug me too much.

Travelling is not good for Beavis, which is highly ironic since he's a laptop. Not only is he heavy, but he doesn't really like being in my bag much. Not only has the crack in his case gotten worse but the little pin that holds my network card in broke off yesterday. :P I think the gods are trying to tell me that I should fuck this whole ram upgrade and just get a new computer... course, can't spend any money due to weddingthing. blargh. Oh well.

Time to go watch Raf demonstrate character rigging again.