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Final Day
Checked out for noon then decided to take the trolley down to Fisherman’s Wharf. Had seen everything I wanted too at Macworld so took the last day for some sightseeing.

Just my luck, it happened to be probably the coldest day of the year in SF. I stopped off at one of the gift shops just so I could by a jacket. After I was comfortable, headed to Pier 39 for some lunch and eat at Bubba Gumps. Food was decent and got to sit somewhere warm and with a view. Pretty much just walked around the Wharf for abit and took the trolley back getting off at Lombard St.

After that headed back and off to the airport.San Francisco was fun, would have been better if it was alittle warmer and I know how to use the Muni but its somewhere I want to go back. i didnt get to see “Rollin’ wit” Bob Saget’s Full house or the Golden Gate Bridge and check out what I missed. Maybe next year.

Wednesday at Macworld was all about diggnation. Tho I was close, I took some pretty shitty pictures. Most are either blurry, have ginormous head dude or redhed girl in all of them

Flickr Set

The taping was awesome. Kevin and Alex got a couch from god knows where somehow and snuck in beers so it felt like a real diggnation taping. They tossed out T-shirts, which I didn’t get any and lighters, which I didn’t get any.

The video of its up for members right now and should be on iTunes in a couple days. Got to see the video and you can catch me during the beginning pan of the audience.

the8thsign represent

Flight
My fight was, well, underwhelming. This was my first time flying and between everything everyone was telling me and everything I was reading, I was expecting the worst.

Two Words: Weak Sauce

Took a 1:30hr flight to Washington DC, which was delayed on the runway for 45mins then had a 1hr layover before taking the 5hr flight to San Francisco. On flight movie, The Queen, sucked so I spent most of my time listening to my iPod and near the end broke out my macbook and watched a few episodes of Veronica Mars.

Only thing that sucked was when we were descending, the cabin pressure destroyed my sinuses. I’m still feeling pretty shitty because of it.

Arrived into SFO kinda late. Took a shuttle to the hotel, grabbed a bite to eat in the hotel restaurant then just chilled for the rest of the night

Hotel
I stayed at the Ramada Plaza Hotel on Market St and it is not somewhere I will be going back too either.

• homeless people everywhere
• free internet was so slow it was useless
• maids never left any washcloths
• vending machine was busted
• shuttle from airport to hotel wasn’t free
• breakfast wasn’t free
• bathroom had empty shampoo bottles on top of the shower

And when the shuttle dropped us off, they gave me the wrong luggage. I was lucky the women who got mine caught it in time and called my cell.

Sightseeing
Since Macworld didn’t start until Tuesday, I pretty much had all day Monday to go sightseeing. Me and my buddy ended up walking all the way from the hotel to Fisherman’s Wharf. Grabbed a bite then headed to Alcatraz and took the tour. After that we walked back to the hotel and started to head for Ebisu for sushi. After walking about 15 miles all day, we took a cab to Ebisu’s. The sushi was awesome. Definitely somewhere I would go back. After we left we decided to try our luck on the Muni to get home.

Lesson #1 in SF: Learn to use public transportation.

What cost us $20 in cab fare, cost $1.50 to get back. Live and Learn.

I’m back from Macworld and I feel like shit. After I feel a little better and catch up on about 2500 unread RSS items, I’ll post some stuff from my trip.

Back in July, i bought a new FujiFilm V10 digital camera to replace my aging HP Photosmart 315. I wanted to get into photography a little but never found the time. Well, with the start of the New Year, I’m going to start my own Project 365 by taking a photo every day. This will help me learn more about photography and just help document my life in a whole new way.

I’ve already started and you can view my Photoset on Flickr.

Links:
Project 365: How to Take a Photo a Day and See Your Life in a Whole New Way
Lifehacker - Project 365: Take a photo a day for a year
Lifehacker - Hack Attack: Photo projects for the New Year
Project 365 Flickr Group

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year. 2006 looks to be a great year, HD looks to be taking off with LCD HDTVs prices dropping faster than Paris Hilton in a homemade video. Xbox360 (finally on shelves), Playstation 3 and Revolution all dropping this year, should make it exciting in the gaming community. Hope PSP finally gets some �killer app� games as mine has been just sitting collecting dust. I have no use for $20 UMD movies. I really have no idea why UMD movies are so popular, why on earth would anyone want to watch a full length film on a screen that small is beyond me. I don�t think they are a bad idea, I�m just dumbfounded as to why they are more popular than games on the PSP. I have a couple of goals this year, first being to buy my first Mac, the plan is to pick up a Intel MacMini when they get released. I want to completely switch over to Mac for my desktop. Tho this might not happen because Windows Vista will be out this year and I�m going to definitely be all over that. I�ve really been trying to make MCE work in my home and want to see what they do in Vista MCE. Its not quite there yet in MCE 2005 for me, but I�m hoping with Vista and xbox360 it will finally be what Ive been looking for.

That was my first post of 2006. Let take a look back.

• 32″ HD LCD TVs can be found for $500 now
  Nintendo Revolution is now the Nintendo Wii
  PSP never got any “killer apps” and UMD died a horrible death
  Bought my first Mac but it was a Macbook and not a MacMini
  Made a complete switch to Apple
  Really have no interested in Microsoft Vista any longer
  Vista and Xbox360 have been replaced with me waiting for the Apple iTV now

Its my Birthday Bitches! Today is my 28th Birthday and I have to work today. Blah. My manager said she would buy me dinner tonight so atleast I’ll get something out of it. I did the annual dinner ritual this weekend and my love spoiled me with presents which included the new 20th anniversary Transformers: The Movie DVD. Spend most of my day off yesterday watching all the commentary on the DVD which was really good.

It also happens to be the 5th birthday of the Xbox and 4th for Xbox Live.

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