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Behold! Companies, schwag seekers, job hunters, head hunters, and bored grad students gather at the exhibition, an orgy of big, colorful animated things; mostly cars and planes and breasts (know your audience). - IMG 3054
Nvidia was hawking there quadro cards. - IMG 3055
But they were upstaged by ATI, who has just integrated their fancy new Radeons into the pro-graphics card line "FireGL" - IMG 3056
The motion capture slave. There were several companies showing off their systems for capturing computer animation data from live-action. Each one of these booths had very tired looking dancers demonstrating the systems' efficacy. - IMG 3058
Jet Ski surfboard? This 300cc gasoline motor has been squashed into a board for riding. Why at SIGGRAPH? Your guess is as good as mine. - IMG 3059
So many Macs... say what you will about market share, graphics folk are stuck like glue to Apple. - IMG 3060
Mmm... G5. This is as close as I'll get to one for a long while. - IMG 3061
Jeff next to more tasty Macness - Candace creates
My roommate Candace, making a late-night poster on geometry in our living room. - Hannah
Hannah, another bound for the Bay Area, sitting on my bed. Note the familiar sarong on the wall. That thing has 1001 uses. - IMG 6672
Delia arrives! We bike to the grocery store to make her a giant plate of pasta on the eve of the SF marathon. - IMG_4557.JPG
in the palace gardens - IMG_4558.JPG
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another not quite successful arm-out shot - IMG_4562.JPG
view of some palace - IMG_4563.JPG
Leslie in front of some extravagantly etched building - IMG_4564.JPG
more of St. Vitus Cathedral - IMG_4565.JPG
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Surprising no one, we kick off our photos with food pictures from our return to Momofuku Noodle Bar. Just wow. This pea salad with little tidbits of charred lettuce was like a little pile of summer. - IMG 0450
The oyster buns tasted like tiny, perfect po-boys. - IMG 0452
Charred (and perfectly tender) octopus with fennel, grapefruit, other stuff, and a smear of yogurt. Yee-um. - IMG 0453
Having had the ramen before I was not as blown away, but it remains, like, the perfect bowl of ramen. - IMG 0913
From lunch we journeyed down to Coney Island, smearing ourselves with sunscreen on the subway to the delight of our fellow passengers. To complete our look, we purchased high-fashion sun hats. - IMG 0914
the boardwalk - IMG 0915
a bench, the beach - IMG 0918
a typical vendor - IMG 0919
Bryan celebrates the water, warmed by either the sun or the multitude of beach bathers. - IMG 0920
the beach - IMG 0921
Leslie and the beach