Re: KFest 2005 report

["kirkmitchell@gmail.com" <kirkmitchell@gmail.com>]

Friday:

Breakfast was the same menu, but I chose the muffins and fresh fruit.

First session was Ken Gagne, demonstrating some obscure and not so
obscure GS games.  Most of them, I'd seen and played, but there were a
few that must have slipped under my radar that looked interesting.

Sharon Knoblock did her session on Reunion, a Mac geneology program.
Interesting, but the amount of detail that is required seems like too
much work to me. B-{)

Good lunch, I had a nice big taco salad in those crunchy shells with
lots of toppings.  B-{)

Howard Katz did a session on Identity theft, which I hope I never
experience.  Scary stuff.

Bruce Baker hosted a session where participants discussed their uses of
Apple IIs.  I missed this, as several of us made a quick trip to the
Apple Store.  We all left some money behind and returned with new toys.
 B-{)

On our return, we found Hans Franke discussing his BastelCard.  I was
sort of annoyed as this wasn't on the schedule, and I was interested in
hearing what he had going.  Just caught the last part of his talk.
Looks like an interesting product, whether for prototyping, or as an
expansion card with a variety of daughterboards.

Sean Fahey, and Ed Eastman demonstrated Contiki and the Uthernet card.
This looks like a great way of getting and old //e on the Internet!
Telnet seems to have some problems, but the web browser worked great.
It'll be interesting to see how these products improve!

Then it was off to the banquet, which was a lot fancier than we'd come
to expect from Avila's staff.  The lasagna was very tasty.

After the meal, it was time to judge the ugly ties.  Geoff Weiss won it
handily with a large model Star Wars Tie Fighter tied to his neck.
B-{)

We had an unexpected guest as well.  Eric "Sheppy" Shepherd was able to
join us in a video iChat, with his puss plastered on large screen on
the wall.  Fortunately, that didn't ruin anyone's appetite.  B-{)

Shortly afterwards, future Juiced.GS editor, Ken Gagne suffered under
the combined assault of Roasters Ryan Suenaga, Geoff Weiss, absent Eric
Shepherd, and MC Tony Diaz. He returned as good as he got though, and
while the scent of charcoal and sulfur lingered in the air afterwards,
a fun time was had by all.  B-{)

BTW, KFest 2006 is tentative at July 18th-23rd, 2006.

Later that evening, about half of the attendees went off to the movies,
split fairly evenly between the Chocolate movie, and the Fantastic
Four.

It's nearly 1:00 am now, and I'm getting my second wind.  Or I'm
finally acclimating to the sleep deprivation experiment called KFest.
Who knows what's going to happen now.  B-{)

Kirk