ETech report 1: pix pls

(The first post is mostly pictures because I’m too tired to type.)

I had a fantastic time at this year’s Emerging Technology Conference. A lot had to do with the personal and social angle, especially being a part of the Commodore’s entourage, but the talks were overall really excellent.

The Commodore

Photo by James Duncan Davidson

San Diego

One of the few photos I took, waking up at East-Coast-o’clock in the Commodore Suite:

Here I am partying Disney-style

Photo by John Adams

I look like I’m wearing a parka in this picture because the Marriott air-conditioning was extremely enthusiastic.

The Disney party was awesome in that it approached an almost surreal level of corporate self-parody. They ejected the O’Reilly photographer for “stepping on a Disney executive’s toes” (literally) and also booted an in-character member of Austrian art collective Monochrom for walking around in a faux Soviet uniform with a video crew. Good times.

Here I am partying Facebook-style. Facebook didn’t eject anybody.