photos of TechEd and Universal Studios

So I told you that I would post a bunch of photos of my adventures at TechEd 2005. Mind you, all photos were taken with a cheesy motorola cell phone camera. Quality cannot be expected.

The above photo was taken at universal studios on the night of the attendee party. I got to attend about an hour of that event, but more on that fiasco later. I got to go on the MIB ride (very cool, slightly lame, but worthy as far as realtime video gaming is concerned. I like the interactivity of it, the fact that you got rewarded by hitting "secret" targets or getting a higher score), but forgot to take any photos of it. I also learned to cha cha a little from my wonderful dance instructor, Richard Civil (another photo I forgot to take). I then had to walk the half mile back to the buses to go to my hotel (the second part of the evening's fiascoes), so I took photos on the way. I am actually impressed on how they came out.

Walking back-- crowds, lights, florida in June, Universal, universal studio store




Also, on the hot, crowded walk back through universal studios I came across the standard universal icon, the globe with the word "univeral" circling. I couldn't believe the number of people just standing there around the base of that thing. Idly, confused and wandering like a cloud of landbound gnats. I did, somehow manage to get some decent images of the icon, despite the lighting, crowding and unnecessary smoke effects.



At this same event I became embroiled in a camera battle. While taking a picture of the movie marquee, I ended up catching the attention of some guys with a camcorder, then someone else with a digital camera. Mind you, I show up as my evil twin, mildly deformed and photo-impaired girl, on film, so I completely not happy when they just would not leave me alone. Imagine, if you will, it is about 11pm on the fifth day of little or no sleep, sweaty, dirty, exhausted. Beer in my hand, melting in the humidity, and these guys literally chase me around. I finally turned my little phone camera on them and refused to speak when they tried to "interview" me. I can only hope that they will edit me out as soon as they get home. Here is an idea of what was going on, the person I "shot" with my phone is actually to the left of the guy with the camcorder, but you can still see the shoulder and hand of that evildoer. Damn camcorder man.


Next entry, images from the renaissance....