Macworld Blast Party

March 3, 2008

It's a little late to be blogging about Macworld, but I've been busy coding like mad on Path Finder 5 and haven't had much time to devote to the blog.

So after Macworld, I went to the MacSB dinner and it was cool. Met a bunch of interesting Cocoa devs and had a nice dinner. I went back to my office to get my things and was skating to the Muni station to head home when I ran into it to my old friend Nobi. It was a total coincidence. Nobi said he's going to the Macworld Blast party and said he could get me a ticket. So I'm like "Sure, why not." Little did I know at the time how cool it was going to be.

So, first stop was at a little bar on the corner of Yerba Buena Gardens to get some free drinks and to get our tickets. There was this wacky drunk out of her mind old lady hitting on me telling me how cute I was (she must have been drunk). It was pretty hilarious. She was asking me if I liked Elvis Presley and she could barely stand. I guess she was looking to score :) It was very weird. I kept looking at Nobi hoping he would save me from this awkward situation. Luckily the bus to the Warfield had arrived and I politely ran out as fast as I could.

So we get on the bus heading to Warfield. I've never been there before, but it's a famous place for bands to play in downtown San Francisco. We get off the bus and wait in line and eventually get in.

So before the show started, Microsoft had their Office for Mac 2008 launch party which was really cool. They gave away tons of free stuff. They were throwing stuff out into the crowd and I happened to catch a leather iPhone case. They also gave away an iMac and a bunch of other cool things.

Everyone got two tickets for free drinks, so I got my drinks and waited for the main event. DEVO!!

The show starts off with this amazingly trippy video. I loved it and took a short clip. The video got cut short since a security guy tapped me on the shoulder and said "No filming". I've seen a few other videos on YouTube with the complete video, but here's the footage I got...

Here's the sign out front of the Warfield

Here's the ticket

Here's another sign out front

Microsoft launch party pict

DEVO!

After the show Nobi and I met up with some of his Japanese friends. A young Japanese girl in the group had no idea who DEVO was which was kind of funny. I guess I'm old. After the show I met up with my friend and fellow mac developer Steve Dekorte at the Cafe Royale. DEVO was awesome. I had no idea they still could rock the house. The sound was great and an all around amazing show.

Posted by sgehrman at March 3, 2008 8:33 PM