Last night people started arriving in Redmond for today’s Microsoft TechFest. The event is traditionally a private (Full-time employee only) showcase of cool things being grown by Microsoft Research, but this year ‘external’ journalists have been invited. This means I get some of the valley flying up here to my hood.
After rocking the company store, Ryan and and I met Scott, Ajay, Jeff Clavier, and last but not least my new friend Woody (seriously) for a late dinner last night at Matt’s Rotisserie & Oyster Lounge, which is a fancy-dress name for the only reasonable restaurant in the Redmond Town Center. I suppose it says something about the company one keeps when all of your aquaintances have URLS ;)
Ajay gave us some updates on his project and his recent purchases, both of which I hope to get a peek at at the end of the month when I fly down for Under The Radar. Jeff escaped shortly after Ryan and I arrived, but we were both quickly distracted by Scott’s new 50mm 1.2 lens–Oh how I long for a full-frame DSLR! Woody brought me up to speed on open container laws in the Gulf states, and Scott rounded out the night with historic tales of Burning Man (which only makes me want to go more).
An all around good evening, which managed to at least muffle the constant noise in my head and allow me some temporary happiness.
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