eviljim.com: the mac days

I found what I believe is a hidden feature in the Wii controllers.

A while back I noticed that some of my controllers, when I turned them on, would only blink 3 of the 4 LEDs while trying to connect. “Weird,” I thought, “Maybe one of the LEDs is burned out.”

I ignored it until I spoke with support (about my green pixel problem), and the rep said it’s normal, but didn’t expand as to why.

Today I turned my Wiimote on and only two lights blinked. On a hunch, I hit the Home button and noticed the battery meter had only two bars – out of four.

So, apparently, when you boot up your controller, it will flash the battery life remaining. Neat. Wish I had been able to figure it out earlier.

As part of the NaNo experience, Alfonso and I have had a few meet-ups at local coffee shops. Alfonso is bad at picking shops as he typically picks ones that have 5 minutes remaining before they close, and they won’t even sell you any coffee or old bread.

Anyway, I’d been wanting to check out a local coffee shop opened by a fellow Googler (though I can’t say I know him, I think he works in another building). You can check out the astoundingly and surprisingly bad website here. Don’t expect hours of operation or even an exact address.

So, the gist of this cafe is that payment is on a voluntary basis. You go in, order whatever drinks or snacks (small sandwiches, FroYo, bagels, CostCo muffins, etc) and you receive them. There is no cash register. There is — off to the side — a small slot where you can put money, if you so choose. You can also give the barrista your card and just tell her whatever you want charged. Or pay online at the previously mentioned website via PayPal. (Wait: why doesn’t this dude accept Google Checkout?)

My supposition is that, because payment is voluntary, the median visitor ends up paying more than they would at a Starbucks, or what have you. This is, however, quite necessary to make up for the people that pay nothing. And by “people” I kind of mean “teenagers.”

They also have an Xbox 360 hooked up that you can go to town on, complete with several games. How do the games not get stolen? Nuclear technology.

You know that part of the Simpsons opening where Homer handles a nuclear rod inside a lucite case with some gloves? Well, Terra Bite has a 360 and a bunch of discs inside a similar case. You stick your hands through some holes in the case – too small to fit a CD through – and you can change out the games. I don’t know what keeps people from stealing the controllers, though. Hmmm.

Anyway, the cafe itself is pretty nice. It’s also convenient when you know you’ll be sitting there for two hours – you don’t have to go up and pay $2 each time you need a coffee refill, or feel like an incredibly delicious bagel. You can just settle up for whatever you feel like you owe at the end of the day. Or end of the week. Or just not pay.

Some strange events and such:

- At one point on our second day visiting Terra Bite, the owner came in. His demeanor kind of made me feel unwelcome there — Alfonso asked a good question (how do they handle sales tax) and through the entire 30 second conversation, the owner seemed to be bothered that he was forced to have it. And the entire time he was there — sitting out of sight on the other side of the cafe — I felt vaguely like I shouldn’t be there. Like I have broken into this dude’s house and was using his coffee maker, but he was too polite to ask me to leave, but not too polite to offer me biscuits. I’m not certain the entirety of this feeling is his fault though; I think it’s from the concept of the place. I hadn’t paid for anything I had taken (yet), so I felt like a freeloader, even though I fully intended to pay when I was done consuming his goods.

- Tatiana didn’t have any cash, so she felt like she could not get anything. This confused me. So I offered to pay, which she accepted. Me paying for her consisted of going with her to the counter, standing next to her while she ordered and got her drink, and then sitting back down. A couple hours later I put money into the little hopper. With new payment guidelines comes new and odd social situations that I don’t have the ability to understand.

- We went to eat afterwards, and felt slightly put out that restaurants were now telling us exactly what we had to pay. It seemed very presumptuous of them to do.

In all, I kind of like the concept. In some respects it heralds to the mom-and-pop kind of store; I could imagine in such a place, if you visited daily, they wouldn’t make you fork over $1.72 for coffee. You could probably just throw them a twenty every week and call it even. It’s a certain kind of convenience you rarely get.

PS I feel it is BS that this near-800 word essay does not count towards my horribly-low word count.

Any time I get a new electronic goody, I feel certain “firsts” for the device are very important to set the tone of my experience with said device.

With my new iPod Touch, the following seemed appropriate.

First website: jailbreakme.com
First song: CSS – Music is My Hot Hot Sex
First (possibly only?) over-the-air iTunes purchase: Spice Girls – Headlines [Added bonus – it’s iTunes Plus so it’s already an MP3. Score)
First video watched: Wes Anderson’s Hotel Chevalier
First game of blackjack played: I busted to a dealer blackjack

jimr became an active employee on Monday November 6, 2006 (365 days ago).

One year!

Exactly one year ago I was in Mountain View, sitting in the courtyard eating Wagyu steak from Charlies’ Cafe, watching to my left a scale-model T-Rex get assembled, and to my right, a bunch of engineers running through one of those inflatable obstacle course things.

It’s crazy. Seems like I’ve been here much longer, but also, like I’ve only been here a few months.

Oh and, of course, my non-solicit with Microsoft has expired and as such, I now can concentrate on recruiting everyone I enjoyed working with at Microsoft. Bwa-ha-ha-ha.

For a while now, my Wii has been displaying little green pixels every now and again while playing games (especially when playing Resident Evil 4). It was only a little annoying, but I finally got sick of it, so I called Nintendo for support.

Their first bonus point is that they were open on Saturday. The rep took my serial number, and asked what was wrong. I explained the problem and she asked if I was using Nintendo-official cables, I said yes, so she set up a repair. I said I was in Washington, and she asked, “Do you live within driving distance of Redmond,” and it just so happens I live in Redmond. She said instead of waiting for a repair, I can pop into the Nintendo repair center and get it fixed while I wait. Not only that, they’re open Saturdays, 9-6.

I jumped into the car, walked in (turns out it was about 2 blocks from my old Microsoft building), and the guy said they’d just swap me over to a new console. He went back to go do that, and I looked at some old-school Nintendo systems in a display case. They had most everything in there, though surprisingly none of the rare top-loading NES machines. They did have a ROB, though.

I also noticed a Wii set up, and it had Super Mario Galaxies in it, so I played that for about 5 minutes until my new Wii was ready. He handed me the new system, said I have a 1 year warranty on the new system already set up in my name, and sent me on my way. Took about 20 minutes including driving there and back.

Sure beats the 360 experience I had: they refused to fix my machine (it was before they extended the warranty to 3 years for the red-ring-of-death), so I had to swap it out at Costco. Plus I had to deal with their “helpful” automated debugger “Max” and useless India-based technical support who had me do everything “Max” did again. All this before telling me it’d be $179 to fix.

(According to the Invoice I got repair of a Wii is $75, though obviously my warranty covered that amount. That’s a fairly reasonable price – especially since you also get a new warranty to go along with your replacement system).

Kudos, Nintendo. I wish I knew how to buy your stock.

For the past few months, I’ve been wanting a Mac. I made myself wait, however, because the new shiny “Leopard” operating system was about to come out. I figured, might as well buy it when that comes out. Secretly I was hoping this would delay the purchase indefinitely.

That is not what happened.

I stopped by the Mac store on my birthday (the 27th, for those of you that are bad friends or random strangers) and took a little poking around with Leopard. After about 10 minutes, I felt compelled to purchase a new iMac. So I did.

Of course I couldn’t get out with a few accessories – specifically, a free after rebate printer, and a small-yet-expensive box of AppleCare which, despite just being an extended warranty, had a CD inside of it. I am not sure why.

The Mac is undeniably beautiful. There is exactly one cable involved, the power cable. That’s it. You plug that in and hit power and you’re using a Mac.

The startup process is beautiful. The first thing that happened was a screen popped up instructing me how to put batteries into my mouse and turn it on. Once I did so, it walked me through pairing it (I had to click a button). Then I did the same thing with the keyboard. Simple. I was struck with the fact that my mom could completely set up this computer – from plugging it in to even getting the wireless mouse and keyboard up and running. The only thing she’d have needed help with was lifting it up onto her desk.

After startup a welcome video plays, saying “Welcome” in a whole bunch of languages. It plays full screen and looks sharp. I wish I knew how to play it again. This video is Apple’s version of the new car smell. It works. You can watch it right here, but it’s not the same. Even if you made it full screen, and had a 24″ display at home, you’re missing out on how perfectly crisp it is.

By comparison, this is Vista’s welcome screen, and looking at it depresses me.

(Note that the Vista useless welcome screen comes up every time you boot until you uncheck that stupid box at the bottom; make sure you do that upon your first boot. The Welcome Center is completely useless).

(Taking a break to watch the Leopard welcome video again)

After that, you… oh wait. That’s it. The Mac is up and running. I believe one step did involve selecting my wireless network.

On Vista, I would have had to boot the Vista DVD and reinstall (because the OEM would have put a ton of crap I don’t want on the PC). After re-installing the OS, I’d have to disable that Welcome screen again. Then, I’d have to break out a really long Ethernet cable so I can download a Wireless driver. After rebooting, I would be able to get on my wireless network, get rid of the long Ethernet cable, and then FINALLY I could download my display driver so I could increase the screen resolution from 800×600.

Using a Mac is pure pleasure. Everything works so well, and so quickly. The new features are spectacular, and even better are all the small things that they tweaked because, well, people wanted them better. And everything is great, right out of the box.

There’s a lot of stuff I hadn’t ever even used, because I’ve only used Macs at work. Front Row is awesome; it’s what Windows Media Center should be and it’s included (and they even throw in a nice remote). It makes me want to buy a Mac Mini to hook up to my TV. It’s so simple but works so well.

The new “Spaces” feature is something you can get utilities to already do, but it’s again, done so simply and so well. The awesome thing is I can dedicate an entire space to a full-screen Remote Desktop session to my PC, so it’s like my Mac is my PC, too.

I’m stopping by Best Buy tonight to pick up an external hard drive – I can’t wait to get Time Machine up and running. I’ve been extremely lax with backing up in the past, and now I won’t have to even think about it.

Well, I need to stop writing about this because I sound like a 9 year old girl who was just invited to an Alice in Wonderland party, so. Adieu.

Approximately 8 hours of my life was consumed by SOAP. Not the washy type SOAP, but rather, Simple Object Access Protocol. Yes, another nerdy post.

Python has a nice little library, called SOAPpy, which lets you generate SOAP requests. It seems to work, unless you’re accessing a .NET SOAP proxy. This, unfortunately, is what I was trying to do.

So it took about 6 hours to come up with the following 4 lines of code:

proxy = SOAPpy.SOAPProxy(‘http://whatever/webservice.asmx’, ‘http://whatever/namespace/’, ‘ http://whatever/Action’)
proxy.config.dumpSOAPOut = 1
proxy.config.buildWithNamespacePrefix = 0
response = proxy.Action(variable=value, variable2=value, variable3=product_name)

Specifically:

Line 1: You have to pass in the SOAPAction here, fully qualified. Otherwise you’ll get things such as “Object Reference” errors.
Line 2: This is great for debugging
Line 3: This line is not documented. Nobody suggests using it. Nobody talks about it. It is the most critical line and the one that took the longest to figure out. The problem is the SOAP request is not exactly what .NET is expecting; Python specifies the namespace with ‘ns1′ which I believe identifies the namespace. .NET chokes on this and dies.
Line 4: You need to specify the name of the variable, then the equals sign, then the value.

Somehow I ended up subscribed to Microsoft’s Small Business newsletter. I think, but am not sure, it is because I signed up for something. Deciding to unsubscribe, I found a link at the bottom of the email (nice!) which led to this monstrosity of a page:

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Holy shit, do they think anyone CARES? I want to unsubscribe! Not read a treatise some deluded PM wrote because he was feeling especially self-important one day.

Oh, and by the way, the instructions suggest that I find links that do not EXIST.

That was going to be the end of the post until I got THIS beautiful page:

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I have no idea what I’m supposed to do. It says to check the box to unsubscribe, but at the same time, the column header is “Subscribe” – not Unsubscribe. But I already am subscribed? If there is a checkbox why are there also two different buttons, and what happens if I hit Update instead of Unsubscribe but check the Un(subscribe) checkbox?

We live in a world of uncertainty.

Oh and the best part is – what is up with the newsletter description? “Is created to be sent out as regular monthly or bi-monthly NL”? That’s so screwed up even Yoda wouldn’t say it.

I think I have unsubscribed, but I don’t have the fucking computer expertise to determine this from their poor-ass website.

Happy 3rd birthday, Google Kirkland! Here is our cake!

Delicious!

My Mac is narrating everything I do.

“FireFox open scroll bar. FireFox has new tab. Bookmarks menu, closing menu.”

It is like that movie. Didn’t that guy die at the end of that movie?

I don’t know how I enabled it and I certainly do not know how to turn it off.

While biking last weekend, the subject of the song “Don’t Stop Believin’” came up.

That was all it took for me to buy it on iTunes. I also picked up “The Final Countdown” to make me feel like I’m in an episode of Arrested Development while coding.*

While typing the below footnotes I completely forgot where I was going with this setup – but for some reason I wanted everyone to know I bought the track “Don’t Stop Believin’” from iTunes.

I remember now. Every time I listen to “Don’t Stop Believin’” I get this horrible fear, and I realized, it’s because of the Sopranos series finale. I keep expecting the music to cut out and either to pass out and everything go black, or to actually die because of the song.

That’s somewhat impressive – that they’ve created such a strong link between this song, and that scene. It was a pretty good scene.

* – By the way, fair reader, it is my New Year’s Resolution** to take up one or several of the following: coin tricks, card tricks, juggling. If I learn either of the first two, this song will be played whenever I do a trick. I will need to carry around an iPod and speakers.

** – The way I see it, New Year’s in January is complete BS. The “new year” for you starts after your birthday, which for me, is this month. So I’m creating some New Year’s in October, the month of my birth. This isn’t actually true, nor was it my initial motivation, but I thought of it while typing this so I’m going with it.

Did anyone else shout out “Don’t tase me bro!” at the end of Heroes? Or was that just me?

I also was surprised they got Fidel Castro to cameo in the episode. I thought that’d be illegal.

Today at Google Kirkland we’re celebrating Oktoberfest, which is deceptively not held in Oktober October. Anyway, to celebrate, Google set up a few tents, some grills, and also hired a live German “oompa” band. While I’m sure you can guess the fare: bratwurst to the extreme, and for some reason Salmon burgers (there’s always Salmon burgers. Always. It is suspicious). In order to not be shown up by the office on TV’s The Office, we have also been granted the gift of pretzels. Giant, soft, Bavarian pretzels. So delicious. So plentiful, as well. Given that there were two baskets on every table and several on the food line, I’d estimate approximately 2 pretzels for every person.

Anyway, I don’t want to talk about pretzels. I want to talk about Costco. This brings me to yesterday’s lunch.

Yesterday’s lunch was an average day – no band, no grills (sadly). However, a Costco rep was coming in to convince people to sign up for Costco memberships. I think everyone here is already a member, though, so I don’t understand the point. So this guy comes in and brings “treats” for desert after we all eat lunch.

This is very generous. And probably something employees would really appreciate, in a normal office. But, Google is not normal. We get delicious little pastries, fresh baked brownies, and they even had little mini-cakes (I believe the mini-cakes were an effort by our culinary team to send a message to the Costco man, and anyone else which would come after him). As such, I don’t think many people really wanted his Costco brand cookies. A few people took some, but with a look of sorrow and pity in their eyes.

So this man – who looked fairly sad and lonely at his own Costco table – didn’t talk to many people, because everyone already is a member at Costco, nor did people come over and fake talking to him to get a treat, because of delicious mini-cakes.

While walking by I met his eyes, infinite pools of sadness, and briskly walked by with my piece of cookies and cream cake.

Why in the world do my iTunes ratings not sync up to a global profile, which is then applied to my other iTunes?**
Why do my Word settings not get synced down when I re-install or use another PC?
Why are my bookmarks not automatically brought down and synced?*
What about my Add-Ons (or whatever Firefox is calling them this release) and settings and such?
Why is it the only other option I have is to use a completely online application (ala Google Docs) which is nerfed, or a completely offline application which is incredibly inconvenient?

It’s 2007. Almost 2008. I would think that software manufacturers would have thought about the whole “Internet” fad by now. And, I dunno, that some people have more than one PC…

Anyway, the reason I’m angry is because I don’t think I’ve ever used iTunes ratings despite the fact that they could be very useful. I don’t, for a couple reasons:

1. They don’t follow me to my work PC, or my laptop.
2. Okay I thought I had more than that when I started the list
3. Oh I remembered one
4. I never know how to correctly back up my iTunes library when I reinstall. I save all my music and just create a new one from scratch (Add Folder -> my MP3s). So I always lose my ratings. And I think I typically have to re-sync my whole iPod, but I don’t want to talk about that.

(BTW: in 2001 I registered “OnlineSettings.com” or some such domain in a desire to create a web service that would allow easy integration of offline apps that would sync up settings, etc. I let it expire. However, I gave up hope and let it expire).

* This is the most inexcusable. It’s a web browser. Internet access is practically guaranteed. USE IT. ALSO, I do not want to install an AddOn to each of my browsers to do this. It should just be done.

** I specifically call out iTunes because WMP and Zune don’t even have podcasting support.

I am QUITE aware that I have been talking about Amazon fresh too much, but something delicious happened and I must let it be known.

I have ordered a bag of ice on the internet.

Ice!

Here is a picture of my new pretty road bike:

Just in time for winter!

One of the advantages to working at Google up in Kirkland is, well, everyone’s pretty much from either Amazon or Microsoft. This means easy access to the Microsoft Company Store (though I already had that), and, most recently, a beta invite to Amazon Fresh, their new grocery delivery service.

My first thought was, “Hasn’t this idea already failed?” And my second thought was, “Guess it’s about time to sell that Amazon stock I have.”

The brilliant thing Amazon did (and I doubt they did it for this reason) is offered up some produce, specifically apples, for 10 cents. The whole problem I have with online grocery shopping is that you can’t pick your own produce. I would fully expect bruised apples or, at minimum, not the crunchy ones I so long for. But, at ten cents, I figured I could order ten and at least get a few good ones. And even if I didn’t, heck, it’s a buck.

As such, I picked up 10 apples each of 4 types: Granny Smith, Fuji, Braeburn, and Jazz. I had not heard of Jazz apples before, but again, 10 cents.

I also picked up a pineapple, a clove of garlic, and some chicken breast, to see what their meat was like.

They offer delivery, but unfortunately, not in my area. Fortunately they have a pick-up point only two blocks from where I work (though not in the direction of home – otherwise I could see actually using this very often). I place an order, it’s fulfilled somewhere in Seattle, shipped to this “store front,” and I pick it up. The whole process is supposed to take 4 hours, though mine was ready in 3 (which I found out because they called me, to let me know and also asked if I needed directions. Way more customer support than I’d expect on a $9 order, which is mostly apples).

I got a little lost trying to find the “store” – it’s pretty small since it’s just a front desk, and an employee-only area which has what appears to be two gigantic freezers (fridges?). The lady at the desk, incredibly nice, said they were getting more signs put up. Apparently, they had just opened Wednesday, so, I cut them a bit of slack on their find-ability.

She scuttled off to find my 4 bags (this is the first inkling I got that maybe I ordered too many apples), stating that if I had parked closer they load the bags into the car themselves. I figured I could handle the apples.

Anyway, this is what I ended up picking up (click the images, especially the second one, for closeups):

Impressed by the sheer volume of apples, I knew I had to weigh them and see how many applies I ended up getting for $4.

It ended up about 18 pounds and some change. That is a lot of apples. Not only that, they’re good. They are firm, unbrused, and really, really big. (Sadly, the price of apples has gone up! They are now about 80 cents each).

Plus, I have grocery bags with Amazon’s logo on them. That’s pretty cool.

It’s a bit weird to buy things how you do – per apple, or per 1 lb of meat (I only ordered 1 lb of chicken, but I assume if I had ordered more, it still would have been individually packed per pound. Which, I should mention, is actually pretty nice). The interface is somewhat nice, though you can’t browse sales, and I sure do love a sale. The prices ranged from good (apples, chicken) to average to bad (for some reason, bone-in chicken was twice the cost as boneless, when it is typically half. Most of the beef is fairly expensive, too). The service was great, and the quality was as well. It was amazingly convenient as well.

So, yes. I think I will purchase from them again, especially if they expand their delivery area out to Redmond.

I tend to like Science Fiction and Fantasy books, simply because they tend to be a bit more imaginative and easier to read. Plus, to be honest, I like wizards. Come on, they’re wizards! What’s not to like? The long gray beards, pointy hats, and fashionable robes…

Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is puffed up, boring, and uninterestingly vain. Writers so in love with this world they’ve created that they feel the need to lecture you on it.

Anyway, ever since I struggled through Lord of the Rings I’ve had a way to disambiguate fantasy I’ll like, versus fantasy that is boring. It is a simple test and has a very good accuracy.

Simply flip through the first few pages of the book, before the book proper begins. If there is a map there, I hope you haven’t bought the book already. If you have, sorry, you’re screwed and in for a very, very boring time.

So for the past 5 or so years I’ve had a phobia causing me to avoid books with maps. The mere thought of an atlas chilled me to my bone. It was all going well, until I read a review of “Name of the Wind” by Patrick Rothfuss on RealLifeComics (an excellent comic). He gave a short but basically glowing review so I ordered a copy on Amazon.

Now Amazon has a great feature called “Look Inside The Book” that lets one peruse a few pages (typically, the first few, and then an excerpt) of a book. Unfortunately, it wasn’t available, so I didn’t get to check for a map.

(One aside – the novel has two different covers. Amazon, at the time, was featuring the version I can only refer to as “the homoerotic cover,” so I ordered from Buy.com, where I hoped to get the “non homoerotic cover.” It’s not that there’s anything wrong with homoeroticism, it’s just not for me)

Anyway, the book comes – and it’s quite a long book, especially considering it is the first of a trilogy. It’s about 700 pages long, and when I flip it open, I notice the first page is nothing but a map.

“This,” I proclaimed out loud, “does not bode well.” Immediately I imagined being lectured on the finer points of some random language some bushy-bearded dude thought up in his mom’s basement while the main character goes for a THREE BOOK WALK THROUGH THE WOODS.

(Another aside – nothing wrong with living in your mom’s basement, especially if it has its own bathroom).
(One more aside – I think the last harry potter book was a homage to lord of the rings, in that Harry goes on a 300 page CAMPING adventure. I wondered why there were no book liner notes on Book 7; it was simply a technical decision because the summary would have read “Harry and friends go camping” and it’s hard to fluff that up to fill an entire book liner).

I actually put the book off further and read the Midnighter’s trilogy instead. After those books, I looked back at the giant tome and decided reading it would clear the most space in my cabinet of books to read.

It is, simply put, fantastic. I encourage you to ignore the fact that the first page is a map, and pick up a copy of this novel. It is smooth, well-polished, and somehow, for a 700 page book, not even remotely wordy or redundant. The author doesn’t spend words telling you fluff or things you don’t need to know.

The book’s story is hard to explain or describe – you learn of this character who is, for reasons unknown to you, legendary and presumed dead. He goes by an assumed name, living as someone else, until a scribe comes and asks for his story. The majority of the novel is him telling that story, with brief interludes into the current time.

Pick up a copy and read it – then thank me I suggested it to you.

- Gnomedex Part 2
- PAX, including a picture of my new laptop decal
- Shootin’
- Casino time
- Segway funtime
- Dancin’ and Dancin’ Shoes
- Little dog that pees on all my things
- Segway 2 and the near death of an intern
- My new helicopter
- Amazon FRESH
- Bookin’: why you need to read “The Name of the Wind.” This will be short and only consist of me saying “You need to read ‘The Name of the Wind.’”

I know what you want to hear about: FREE STUFF I GOT.

Google happened to have an extra ticket to Gnomedex, a local blogger convention (thanks to Vanessa Fox for quitting!). Because it is a pretty small conference, there was some quite-good swag:

HD-DVD copy of “The Bourne Supremacy” (this will most likely be a Christmas gift for my brother, Chris), courtesy of HP
Assorted notebooks from HP and Google (including a holographic Google Earth notepad which is pretty neat).
Gnomedex badge with a hole punched in it (not sure why)
Yahoo Developer Network Mug
Gnomedex pin and sticker
Zillow Pen
B5 Media Telescopic Pen (neatish but more or less useless)
Edgeio 2 GB rather-small USB drive (nifty!) complete with a Gnomedex logo on it.
Something from ZenZui but I have no idea what. Maybe a monitor wipe? Hankey? Seriously, no idea.
Gnomedex bag
LapWorks laptop desk
HP Shirt (Size: Large)
“I blog, therefore I am” shirt from Emma Email Marketing (very hard to find logo on the shirt!) (Size: XL, but it’s American Apparel so it should come close to fitting)
Zillow Shirt (Size: Medium, and would only have fit 1 person at entire conference, Chris Pirillo, the host, who is diminutive).
Gnomedex shirt (Size: SMALL!)

I’ll be posting a blog later on what I thought – some of the presentations were really great, some not so great, and one a giant advert.

Anyway – time to roll around in my free stuff.