11:17 AM Tuesday, <February 7>, <2006>
So last night I stumbled up to see Tony's presentation at the Apple Store on North Michigan Avenue. I was expecting a handful of people, some empty seats in the theater, cause that theater is big. I show up 15 minutes or so before it's supposed to start cause it was looking busy. I snagged a decent seat. I whip out Aluminum and start working on the Daily Dose CSS conversion, and then Jess Kindred plops down next to me. Chat with her for a bit until the Blanchet-Ruths arrive in force, and Jess gives up her seat so I'm sitting next to Tony's parents. Chat with them for a bit. Tony's having some technical difficulties, licensing issues with Photoshop, so it's running a little late. But did I mention the place was packed? People standing all around. Sitting in the aisles. Really cool. Really really impressive. I managed to sneak a pic in, but I probably should have recorded more of it because seriously, really impressive. And Tony did a great job. It's always a joy to watch him work in Photoshop, it seriously is like art. I wonder what it'd be like to just do a screen capture movie of him working on a project from start to finish, speed it up a bit, and show it. Hmmmm, another project to add to the list. Other people I know that showed up, Carlo, Sally, and Tony's girlfriend, whose name I am unsure of. Carrie maybe? Anyway, really impressive to see a former teammate, a friend, a peer, giving a presentation and actually wowing people at an Apple Store. Really cool. Besides that I went trying on jeans at the Levi Store before that, and afterwards watched some TV at home. I forgot to mention that I restandardized on Firefox again, mainly due to the Fission (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Newest&numpg=10&id=1951) extension which makes the location bar a progress bar for loading. It's the little things.