Now I have been back for bit, I would like to pen (electronicly
speaking) some memories about HPWorld. In no specific order (well some
of the time.) Keep in mind, the last one of these I went to had a
hurricane visit in New Orleans, 1992.
- The beautiful San Diego weather that greated me when I arrived.
- Running into a cowork of my wife, Steve Hammond, who drove me
to my hotel.
- Wandering the Gas Lamp District Saturday night with my coworker, Bob
Leimbach, trying to stay up to crash into the new timezone.
- The neat looking San Diego Convention center and other buildings of
the City Skyline.
- Seeing fireworks from the roof of the Clarion Hotel at 10PM.
- Seeing the crowd of people Sunday Morning looking for others that
I already know by sight.
- Sitting in the morning session listing to George Stachnik about the
hp3000-l.
- Meeting Jeff Kell at lunch time. Your accent doesn't come
across in e-mail Jeff <grin>.
- Getting time to learn about Samba/iX which I haven't had time
at my job.
- The ability to read e-mail during a seminar. I turned on mail
from hp3000-l for the remainder of the week.
- Reading hp3000-l and learning about things that I didn't sit in
on.
- Spending all day Monday learning about Java. Heck, the instructor
was still going around 6:15 PM for those who stayed (I didn't.)
- Dave Barry. I had read most of what he spoke about, but it was
great to hear it in his voice. (I have the exploding whale in
.MOV format)
- Catching up with people (Denys, Guy Smith, and many others) at the
opening reception.
- Listening to Lew Platts keynote speech. For a moment, I thought he
was going to tell sales numbers of the HP3000 since he did for
the HP9000. Ah, the problem with being a propriatry platform. You
don't have to release sales info to compare yourself to other
Unix vendors.
- Harry Sterling talks. The HP 3000 is back and better than ever.
I agree, it never went away. But it is better than ever.
- Getting enough of the "HP 3000: The Sequel Continues - IA-64"
shirts to give one to Joe Geiser who got to confernece late since
he got stuck on Jury Duty in BSEPA.
- The HP3000-L lunch. Talking with Denys, meeting Mike Hensley, Ken
Sletten. Ron Seybold, when are you going to post the pictures you
took?
- Not having enough time to spend in the exhibit area with all of
the great sessions :(
- Dropping into sessions just to get the handouts since there were
still too many sessions I wanted to attend at the same time.
- The Lew Platt Criuse. Spending time with old friends, Bill
Lancaster, and new friends, Dave Debus. Glad they gave us the
neat sweat shirts.
- Mike O's Memory boot. Hey, didn't I say that this was my
memories. <grin>
- The rocking party on Wednesday night. This is the same group
that was there last year.
- Finding out from someone in my Area, Chris Segier (sp?) that
my *first* production SPL program that I wrote in 1982 or so
was still and use and wasn't Y2K compliant. And as old
FORTRAN programmers know, I can write FORTRAN in any language.
- Assisting in re-electing Stan and Jeff to the head of SIG-MPE.
"All in favor..."
- Asking for Mike Yawn's business card and being disappointed that
his card didn't have the title of "Exhalted Grand Poobah of
Java/iX" and then realizing that it wasn't even his card.
Well Mike's card doesn't have that title either.
- Saying Good Byes until next time. For me, I would think I will
be able to day trip to Phily in 2000. Hey, isn't that BSEPA?
- Enjoying driving up the coast from Los Angeles all the way to
Mount Shasta in very Northern California. (Why else do you think
this message is so late; I only got back last Monday.)
- Checking out my home web site (http://www.ambers.net) to see
new Pics of our puppies that my wife posted. (Hey, do I have
to <plug> </plug> this line. I don't sell anything?
Well that is all for now. I would like to hear others memories as well.
/alan
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