Lamest Trip Ever To Las Vegas?
Day 1: Four hour quick tour of last day of CES exhibits. But no time for big dramatic entertaining exhibitors. Spent most of the time in the small-booth innovation areas discussing video codec technicalities and licensing. Had a quick dinner alone at a mediocre Mexican restaurant and then did several hours of ruby-on-rails hacking in my hotel room.
Day 2: Spent all day at a technical conference attending presentations on esoteric engineering topics. Dinner that evening provided by the conference was mediocre pizzza, though had some good conversation with some grad students from a German university. Went back to hotel room early to work on presentation I was giving the following day.
Day 3: Not too worried about my presentation because anyway it was the work of someone else I was presenting as a favor. Also as many of the other presenters had limited English speaking ability, anything i did was going to look good. The presentation did go pretty well and prompted some useful networking contacts afterwards. I also met my old boss from many years ago when I worked in London on electronic design-for-test -- both he and I have since moved on and ended up working in the consumer space. Finally a quick dinner and a taxi to the airport and an evening flight back to san Francisco.
In the whole time I never left the Hilton/Convention Center complex of buildings except for one bus shuttle trip on Day 1 to one of the other CES venues. I did however have a room high up in the Hilton with a good view, as you can see in the photo. I did not feel I was missing anything -- I had been to Las Vegas enough in the past to have seen most of the must-see things.
How lame was this? For most people probably very . For me I actually enjoyed most of it.
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Lamest Trip Ever To Las Vegas?
Day 1: Four hour quick tour of last day of CES exhibits. But no time for big dramatic entertaining exhibitors. Spent most of the time in the small-booth innovation areas discussing video codec technicalities and licensing. Had a quick dinner alone at a mediocre Mexican restaurant and then did several hours of ruby-on-rails hacking in my hotel room.
Day 2: Spent all day at a technical conference attending presentations on esoteric engineering topics. Dinner that evening provided by the conference was mediocre pizzza, though had some good conversation with some grad students from a German university. Went back to hotel room early to work on presentation I was giving the following day.
Day 3: Not too worried about my presentation because anyway it was the work of someone else I was presenting as a favor. Also as many of the other presenters had limited English speaking ability, anything i did was going to look good. The presentation did go pretty well and prompted some useful networking contacts afterwards. I also met my old boss from many years ago when I worked in London on electronic design-for-test -- both he and I have since moved on and ended up working in the consumer space. Finally a quick dinner and a taxi to the airport and an evening flight back to san Francisco.
In the whole time I never left the Hilton/Convention Center complex of buildings except for one bus shuttle trip on Day 1 to one of the other CES venues. I did however have a room high up in the Hilton with a good view, as you can see in the photo. I did not feel I was missing anything -- I had been to Las Vegas enough in the past to have seen most of the must-see things.
How lame was this? For most people probably very . For me I actually enjoyed most of it.
[ZoneTag Photo Saturday 7:56 am 1/13/07]
ZoneTag: Photosphere / About. Owner only: Add Location / Add Tags / Settings