MWSF Day 0.5
Although today is technically the first day of MSWF, there's nothing really going on yet except for a bunch of press releases. Plus, it's only half-over for me, so I'll call this 0.5 - an unfinished development version. :-)
We got up this morning and after reading Dan's blog entry about Rendezvous, I decided to check out who else was here in the hotel. Turns out there were 2 other people, one of whom had a name consisting of Japanese characters. So I decided to get ready for a shower and in the process, Beth tells me that someone has sent me a message. It turns out it's from the Japanese guy here in the hotel, and he wanted to know if I'm the "MacMAME" Brad Oliver and if he could do an interview for a Japanese magazine. This is all less than 10 minutes after I logged onto iChat, which Beth thought was amusing.
This being my second-ever MacWorld, a lot of the experience is still relatively new and fresh to me. This time, I've got an "exhibitor" pass, so I was able to register and walk around the exhibition hall today, which was surreal. Most of the booths were in a state of half-construction. Forklifts and other heavy machinery were moving all around, which made it hazardous to be in there unless we were actively involved in the process. As such, after a token peek at the black-shrouded Apple booth, we high-tailed it out of there.
Last night, we went out to dinner at this Italian restaurant, and I saw someone who looked very similar to Peter Cohen, but upon closer examination, it wasn't him. So today as we're walking around, Beth started the "Peter Cohen" game by shouting out "Is that Peter?" everytime someone remotely like him was in sight (which, as it turns out, is often).
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is right next door to the hotel, so we checked that out. I've been to museums before, but not one exclusively billed as "modern." However, I think it was exactly was I was expecting - somewhat pretentious with a mixture of weird, cool and "that string hanging from the ceiling is considered art?"