This years MacWorld had a very different feel. Come to think of it, most of them do. While Apple maintained its center position in the middle of the auditorium, there were many smaller vendors at the show.
Registration was on the West side. This was unusual. The usual spot is in the North Hall. This year, MacWorld shared its space with the Motorcoach associaion. The West side used to house the Art College. There were also many very small vendors and developers in this new place.
I picked up John at 7:30 and we found our way out to Ron's place at 8. Ron left a note on his gate that he had a fever and could not attend.
It was a bright fogless day. we zoomed right along and arrived at The Dublin BART station at 20 minutes before 10. We found a parking place and paid the 1 dollar to use it.
We took the BART the Powell station and had an easy walk to the Moscone West. Lynda,com had a prominent position among the vendors. They had 6 banks of computers hooked up to their site (training). John is very interested in the Cannon cameras. He got to handle the 3500 body. I gave the cannon guy hell for not having CMOS in their consumer point and shoot. Also asked him what the mapping dpi was for his cameras. He couldn't find the answer.. said I could find it on the web.. good deflection. They had some beautiful photos on display. We also looked at the new Epson printers. They have a new one to replace the 2200 and a larger one. Both were cranking out color corrected perfection. The one that will replace the 2200 was churning out a long, long canvas full of prints.
The new "air" computers were on display. They are lighter than air.. well almost. The solid state one is much more expensive than the one with the hard drive. It would truly have to be your second computer.
We had lunch/dinner at Tad's. The steak gill is still in operations although the personnel has changed and the so has the wall covering. There is no more flocked wallpaper, but there is a framed piece of it for nostalgia. Steak meal is 13.95 and is of unknown origin.. still good.
We were out of city by 2:45 and the in Dublin before we knew it. The traffic was a little weird in Livermore and Tracy.. but nothing unusual about that.
Have a great day
Love Pat
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wow, changes at Tad's Steakhouse! No more flocked wallpaper! Ohmigod!
Sounds like MacWorld was a good thing, MSBK had all sorts of things to say about it yesterday. She and Dad are taking it on today!
I can't imagine the situation without all THREE of the TOTs. I know you will have lots to torture Ron about when you see him next!
Linzi and I visited Tad's a few months ago and were pleasantly surprised by the remodel. I was happy to see that they kept much of the original moulding and some of the plaster medallions on the wall- those are just so cool.
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