- IMG 3052
A herd of graphics geeks. This picture was taken on Monday, before the exhibition opened, when there were only academic papers and courses going on. So the more "colorful" part of the crowd was not out in force yet. - IMG 3053
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 - 138 3887
The bedroom... with a promising little nook. - 138 3888
Bedroom closet - 138 3889
Bathroom... only knock against it is shower curtain instead of door. - 138 3890
Kitchen... much more open than the one in Santa Clara. - 138 3891
The back patio. Large, wooden. Just begging for yoga to be done on it. - 139 3918
The previous pictures were from our trip apartment shopping earlier this month. Now we jump to the actual packing process. Here is our bedroom at the start of the upheaval. - 139 3919
The old kitchen, still partially assembled. - 139 3921
Where did we get all this stuff? The dining room serves as a staging area. - 139 3922
Living room packing. - 139 3923
Bryan celebrates. He's done at Apple and now he just has to pick up and carry everything he owns... twice. - 139 3924
The beginning of the Goodwill pile. - 139 3925
Leslie takes on the manly duty of driving the big-ass rental truck. - 139 3926
And was it ever big. At least we had to make only one trip. - 139 3927
Bryan girds himself to fill the truck. Note the cool-ass hydraulic lift. - 139 3928
The truck fills. Bryan sweats. - 139 3929
Phil, our noble and only helper. - 139 3930
Three hours into loading, we take a 5-minute break. - 139 3931
And it's packed! 13 hours until the truck has to be back to Budget. - 139 3932
Gazing upon his masterpiece - 139 3933
The intrepid trucker terrorizes the route to Fremont. - 139 3935
Bryan, girding again.