PDC Day -02

Here we go. We're counting down to PDC and we're at Day -02 (PDC doesn't officially start until Tuesday and I'm a 0-based counter just like C#). I'm sitting here going through my sessions, getting my papers ready for the evil border police (waving the Canadian flag at them just doesn't cut it anymore), and otherwise panicking as I'm sure I'll forget something. Here's my checklist for the event:

  • Passport and money to bribe border officials, needed to get past the security drone at the airport (note to self: don't use Monopoly money this time round)
  • eTickets for flight, pretty necessary if I want to get onto the actual plane (other than waving a bar of soap that might work but it's raining in Calgary so it might sud up, 10 points to Gryffindor who can name the movie that's from)
  • Extra large bag with minimal clothes so I have room for all the geek toys I'll pick up in L.A. and the conference (or whatever else I pick up, homeless people, small marsupials, etc.)
  • Earthquake-proof Presario R4000 laptop with enough games and music on it so I can keep myself occupied (or at least look that way)
  • Laptop case for said laptop so I can take it on the plane with me. After all it's been days since I was last at CPR so controlling safety critical software with a computer is just in my blood.
  • More USB flash drives than you can shake a stick at so I can quickly steal any content that happens to be lying around at the booths.
  • 80GB USB external drive with my virtual machine images and various other stuff (porn of course) so I can show off whatever we geeks show off at the conference.
  • Official Microsoft "I'm an uber-geek" clothes and badges so everyone knows how nerdy I really am
  • Canadian flag on pretty much everything just in case America is invaded by misplaced Peruvians. I figure they'll put us Canucks in hotels because they pity our lack of indecision/responsibility/whatever with the NAFTA.
  • A ton of AA batteries for my MP3 player and digital camera (no, nothing else is battery powered so don't even go there!)
  • My name written into my Spiderman Underoos just in case I get lost. If you see a nerdy looking guy wandering the streets of L.A. next week, check the tag and return to sender.

One thing about PDC sessions. They have a nice feature online to launch a calendar object so you can add it to your Outlook schedule. However my Outlook is on my desktop so I'll be syncing with my PDA. When you launch the iCal file, it automatically adjusts the schedule to whatever your current time zone is so all my sessions are 1 hour off. I only realized this after adding them all to my calendar but for those that are doing it this way, just keep an eye out for that.

You can track me through this blog everyday from now until I last (or I come back to Calgary). I'll be posting through three different mediums:

  1. Through this blog (which will become part of the bigger tagged posts)
  2. Through my own Flickr page here (which will also appear on the official PDC Flicker tagged photos here)
  3. Through my photoblog on textamerica.com if I catch anything with my camera phone that I can't with my camera (lower res but handy for those public police beating type events that come up)

Well, it's off to bed shortly and a new blog tommorow as I face my annual full body search event at the airport. Cheers!

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