So, the previous entry was of course written in a sleepy state in the KCI departure lounge, where we ended up being stuck for about six hours in total whilst a snowstorm raged outside. When my laptop battery died (I’d accidentally checked my power supply), I kept myself occupied by playing on my PSP, and luckily I found a newsagent selling PC Gamer, and EGM – a magazine I’d heard lots about thanks to 1up.com, but had never actually read for obvious reasons! I was very pleased to be faced with a construct-your-own Companion Cube when I opened PC Gamer:
Eventually, we were able to board the plane, which essentially ended up feeling like a bit of a private jet because the Global Scholars were virtually the only ones on the flight!
Some more pictures of arriving in San Francisco, and our hotel in Palo Alto:
Tomorrow, as it’s President’s Day (and therefore a free day for us) we’re heading out into San Francisco for some typical touristy sight-seeing. I can’t wait!
A very exciting opportunity which I’ve been dying to blog about for ages is the fact that whilst we’re here in California, it is obviously also time for GDC 2008 (18th-22nd February). Thanks in part to NCGE, and to my university (the Department of Creative Technologies at the University of Portsmouth), I’m actually going to be attending this year (the main conference, from Wednesday-Friday), and I’m just completely indescribably excited at the prospect, as it’s a fantastic opportunity to not only attend a variety of sessions that’ll help me with both my PhD research and my venture, but also to do lots of valuable networking within the industry. It’s going to be a really fun and exciting week ahead! :D
Note to self: I need to upload my later photos to Flickr – I finally jumped on the Flickr bandwagon a couple of weeks ago, and have started uploading all my photos to there – you can access it via Mitu.nu too however, just by going to http://www.mitu.nu/photos. However, my uploading software seems to be broken today, so I’m linking direct to Facebook for now!
