After some quiet days in San Diego, I left on Tuesday to take the train to Los Angeles and go to the SIGGRAPH conference. Soon after I got to my hotel, Don Mitchell
called and we had a long chat in the hotel bar where they were not serving, so things were quiet. Then we headed over to the convention center where we met Pat Hanrahan.
I went off and encountered Greg Humphreys (Humper)
Wim Sweldems (who was about to get on the redeye back to NJ)
Emil Praun
and Peter Schroeder.
Then, Ben Shedd appeared
and someone took my picture.
After capturing Lee Markosian,
it was time to gather for the bowling event. Perry was there
as were Tom
and Szymon.
Allison Klein was trying on her shirt,
Georg Essl was looking for his
and Adam
insisted on taking pictures of me, front
and back.
Tom Sanocki was welcoming Lena Petrovic
to Pixar as Wagner Correa watched. On the way back to the hotel, I ran into Robert McDermott
and his family. Because of the energy crisis, the restaurant that night was fairly dark and so it wasn't possible to capture the meal or even the outrageous bill on film.