Re: KFest 2007 Report

[Kirk Mitchell <kirkmitchell@gmail.com>]

Day 4,

Well, I got involved on the Wii last night and didn't tear myself away
until 5 AM.  My roomie failed to wake me until it was 9 AM and too
late for breakfast.  The rat.  B-{)

First session was Michael Mahon's NadaNet session, where he gave a
detailed technical presentation on networking and how he built his
NadaNet from scratch.  It was very interesting, and the demonstration
was intriguing.  And I didn't fall asleep!  His AppleCrate is
something to see as well!

Bruce Baker gave the next session where he chose a number of games
from the Softdisk 8 bit collection (a real goldmine of neat
programs...  Hundreds of them!).  I bought the collection last KFest
but haven't really sorted through the 166 disk issues to find the real
gems myself.  Bruce found some neat ones.

Tony Diaz was supposed to give a session, but I don't know what
happened to it.

Lunch was especially fine since I'd missed breakfast.  B-{)

Ed Eastman had another soldering session which I missed.

Geoff Weiss's session was System 6.0.1 for Dummies, and he went
through the System Folder describing what almost each file did.

Tim Kellers gave a session on an Introduction to FreeBSD, which forms
the base of Mac OS X.  Interesting, but the Center was having network
problems.

We had the fancy dinnner next, then proceeded to reroast past roastees
and watch slideshows.  Lots of humor.  B-{)  Contest winners collected
their booty and a good time was had by all.

A small group took of this evening to a Celtic Folk music concert,
another group headed out for the movies, Ryan and I finally got the
Krispy Kremes back to the dorm and almost lost limbs as we were rushed
by human donut pirahnas...  B-{)

So, it's been a slow night.  There have been quite a few new faces on
a2central's chat.  I hope they haven't been terribly disappointed by
the conversations.  When everyone gets back from movies and concert,
we'll probably get back to ignoring the chat.  B-{)

The night's still young, although I don't think I'll be staying up so
late this time.

I'll be finishing up my report tomorrow when KFest 2007 comes to a
happy conclusion.

Kirk