so it's march now, eh?
so i just got back from the Microsoft party. what a funny idea. a party put on by geeks, for geeks, about geeky things...and yet it's exclusive 800 people were invited, and for some reason the invites were in high demand.
so i snatched my invite out of my boss's backpack, put on the requisite almost-puka(sp?)-shell-necklace and headed over to the ruby skye with tim.
so we get there, and get in a line of 50 people (with invites) waiting to get in for:
missing, of course, were things like decent music, pretty girls (girls at all? i think i saw maybe 2), real beer, space, free x-boxes, my boss and his two other highly valued passes, elvis costello, tigers, giant blocks of ice with drilled out cork-screw-vodka-pipes to make gin-free martinis, and the various other things i'd been told made appearances at various other msft parties. shoulda called garret earlier. that was significantly more entertaining.
ok, here's the 2005-so-far update:
so i snatched my invite out of my boss's backpack, put on the requisite almost-puka(sp?)-shell-necklace and headed over to the ruby skye with tim.
so we get there, and get in a line of 50 people (with invites) waiting to get in for:
- unlimited free quickly produced maki sushi
- unlimited wasabi
- unlimited free beer, like, um, Sam Adams? hurray!
- unlimited free ocean-themed mixed drinks
- unlimited free massages by scary looking masseuses if you wanted to wait out the lines
- unlimited free green-screen photos with a paid-to-stand-there-and-pretend-not-to-be-having-an-awful-time blond model dressed as a mermaid
- unlimited free beat-boxing (ok, not quite unlimited, but more than you could want) by some random white guy with goofy hand gestures
- unlimited free game-programmer-body-odor
- unlimited free dessertettes
- unlimited free meat-on-skewers
- unlimited free sausages (and no, not the kind with spicy ground meat you get at top dog)
- unlimited free watching of unattractive girls in glow-in-the-dark body suits dancing badly behind glass
- unlimited free music and video effects and xbox ads managed on a couple Macintosh PowerBooks running OSX -- at the Microsoft party
- unlimited free energy in the form of a fat dude in a suit breaking on the dance floor like the fat dude from Hitch (if you haven't seen that yet, do yourself a favor and walk out about 2/3 of the way through. you will save yourself great pain and have had an amusing hour or so).
- unlimited free water in glow-in-the-dark cups
- unlimited free glow-in-the-dark-bracelets
missing, of course, were things like decent music, pretty girls (girls at all? i think i saw maybe 2), real beer, space, free x-boxes, my boss and his two other highly valued passes, elvis costello, tigers, giant blocks of ice with drilled out cork-screw-vodka-pipes to make gin-free martinis, and the various other things i'd been told made appearances at various other msft parties. shoulda called garret earlier. that was significantly more entertaining.
ok, here's the 2005-so-far update:
- it's amazing how complicated my lack-of-a-love-life is getting. oh how i wish i could tell the world more, but then, i suppose, there's not really anything to tell.
- new office
- newish car
- business cards
- solitaire finished. sales exceeding expectations. 1600 registered users in first month. i think i'm under NDA as for the ratio of sales to registrations
- new game started. think that's under NDA too
- various schmoozing and doing fake "important" work as opposed to real work (programming)
- snowboarding every weekend for the last 7? weekends. taking my brother up for the first time this weekend
- um.....