Well, my abbreviated trip (Sunday->Wednesday instead of Saturday->Thursday) comes to an end today. Some highlights:

- I saw a guy in a kilt & cod-piece yesterday. Yes, he looked alot like Henry VIII, jowls and all.

- Had a nice dinner with Mark at Sam’s Seafood Grille. Pretty good, overall.

- The breeze shifted to a sea-breeze yesterday, and the temps plummeted. Imagine it being 72 and warm in the morning and 50, damp, and chilly by the end of the day. Lots of folks in shorts & t-shirts weren’t happy.

Notes writeup:

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“Top Performing Mobile Applications”

Panel:
- Allesandro Pace
- Darren Osadchuck
- Dale Rankin -> Moket
- Scott Janousek

Alessandro (BORING)

1. Keep UI simple
2. Keep memory below 70%
3. Use name/value pairs in lieu of XML where possible
4. XMLSocket where possible

Daren (very low-key and monotone but obviously competent):

1. Optimize loops
2. Prefer the deprecated function calls ( in lieu of Math.* ) functions
3. Remap your keypad
4. Record Keystrokes on CS4 using Device Central’s device set

Scott (seemed nervous):

Turns out, it’s The Tenderloin

Savory, and only a few blocks from here.

I particularly liked the stuff about it being resistant to gentrification…

8:47am – Moscone center, West

Well, public WiFi seems to be a pipedream. I sit here on the 3rd floor…it’s wall-to-wall people, seems like a mix of folks–guys in french blue business shirts, Bohemian guys with messenger bags, and lots of fat guys with ponytails.

Male to female ratio: 5:1. Better than I expected, but we’ll see how things turn out in my sessions.

Somehow my Adobe Login got hosed, and I can’t log-in to my account on Adobe.com to change it (again, no WiFi out here)

WTF? Thought:

Me have logistic/organizatio… Whitney - Nov 2, 2008

WTF? Thought:

Me have logistic/organizational charts in head
all times
overlapping
flowing
haiku much

Charlotte have nonsensical
bullet
point
ammunition
Dad Christmas
Adobe house
Adobe MAX = whacked house in
skeletal Maria California
sunny
PEETS

Snow here, ice
go boom boom floor
Maria
word verification
pitcher

CHARLOTTE GO HOME!

Wow, your summary hurts my head. I’m definitely too old to survive one of those!

Ah, Bond is back!

Whitney and I watched this at the Stoneybrook Cinemas de Lux (in assigned seats no less!) last night. Some thoughts:

* I now have epilepsy from watching 27 cuts per seconds during each action scene
* Like the other good Bond, Daniel Craig is going bald.
* The “Bond Girl” is awesome.
* The homage to Goldfinger (dead girl, prone on the bed)
* Judi Dench reprises as M, and she’s fabulous.

9:15 am
Nervous. I’m nervous…I get chatty when I’m nervous, but I don’t have anyone to talk to. I’m in seat 46A, which is the last window seat, port side of the plane. At the moment, I don’t have anyone to talk with.

The 767 I’m on is NICE. Seems very much like the one I flew on to Zurich, Switzerland 3 years ago. Minus the smelly Eurotrash, of course.

Off to Adobe Max 2008, I guess. Left Whitney asleep (or, groggy, at least) at the Airport Courtyard by Mariott. Flight from Louisville was cramped and cold on an MD-88 that sounded like a cuisinart from takeoff to landing. Glad Whitney wasn’t there…wasn’t quite so bad as the Embraer we suffered on from Philly to SDF, but bad enough.

The Transcontinental leg has me on a767, seat 46A. I can’t seem to get free WiFi at either airport; guess those innocent, available days are long gone…perhaps at Frisco.

TV Cancellations thrill me. Stinker shows go circling the drain, and we all get to cheer.

First big one to go: My Own Worst Enemy. Terrible show, poorly executed–just painful to watch, really.

Sad thing is, most things on network TV these days aren’t that much better. Grey’s Anatomy jumped the shark years ago, as has every single reality show.

Overall, TV’s just ceasing to exist for me–I like House, though its formulaic nature and current shark sighting (House and Cuddy?! Hello Moonlighting!)

TV? I think I got a vaccination for that in school…

Jeff Roberts - Nov 4, 2008

TV? I think I got a vaccination for that in school.

Rarely turn the thing on anymore.

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Banks helping out borrowers…

…dogs and cats living together. Mass Hysteria!

I can’t quite articulate the point, but I was thin…

Jeff Roberts - Nov 2, 2008

I can’t quite articulate the point, but I was thinking this morning that all the bailing out is analogous to preventing even the small fires in the forest.

Without some sort of “controlled burn” on these bad loans, it feels like we’re leaving dead timber around to make the next crisis even more severe.

:-) NANO!!!!

Every time I hear Paradise City, I’m apexing a curve in my old SE-R, Goodyears howling, somewhere just south of 6800 rpm in 2nd gear.

The moonroof’s back, it’s 85 degrees outside as the sun sets in the West, and I’m headed to Louisville to see Whitney. Speed limit be damned, that car loved to MOOVE.

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Cerberus should acknowledge the financial reality and either file a Chapter 11 case for Chrysler or have a federal receiver appointed so that the value of the Chrysler assets can be maximized in an orderly sale procedure.

Obligatory snarky comment: “Where’s the *reality* in finance, buddy?!”

I drove home last night and plopped on the couch around sunset. I mumbled something to Whitney about not wanting to go to church, so she grabbed the kids and went. Then I went to bed around 6:00.

I got up around 6:15 this morning. I’m still exhausted and this cold just won’t leave me alone.

Wanted to snapshot this so I remember it when Maria’s 30, has kids of her own, and they keep her up all night.

So, Whitney and I watched Mr. Holland’s Opus, then tuned-in the election coverage at 10:20 pm to get some returns (at the time Obama only had 200+ of the 270 needed). Maria was a bit fussy, but fell back to sleep around the same time.

Then, the fun began.

Two decent things came out of last night:

1. McConnell’s still our Senator. Yay, Kentucky!
2. There’s not a Democrat supermajority in the Senate. At least there’s a *little* checks-and-balances remaining :-)

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Congrats to John McCain on a solid campaign.

And I figure if things go well, so be it. But if …

Jeff Roberts - Nov 3, 2008

And I figure if things go well, so be it. But if we’re worse off in 4 years it’s all on the Dems.

Meanwhile, shame on us if we don’t find a coherent voice in the next 2 and 4 years.

And although I have concerns about the endgame, if they get us out of Iraq, that will be a non-issue for 2012.

Well, today’s the day. Either way it goes, we make history–the first African-American president, or the first female vice-president.

Whitney got up and voted a little after 6, and faced a long line at our polling station. I went a little after 7; while there were lots of folks, I was done in 10 minutes. Everyone was chatty and “up”–we know this is a big deal today.

I guess that ever-present barrage of advertising (particularly in the vitriolic McConnell/Lunsford Senate race) is good for something!

As of today, down 30% YTD.

:: sigh ::