Andy Gapin

Just like I said I probably would, I went ahead and bought an iPhone 4S on day one. However, it did cost me quite a bit more than the $100 that I figured it would cost since I decided to go all out and get the 64GB model. That much storage can’t even come laughably close to storing all of my music, but it can store enough that I can ditch the iPod and stream the what doesn’t fit via AudioGalaxy. The music I listen to regularly will fit and everything else will stay easily accessible. It’ll be good enough and to be able to go from three gadgets to one was a pretty good proposition for me.

I’m not going to go into a full review of the iPhone 4S since I did a full iPhone 4 review last year and this is mostly a spec bump, but after a few days with the device, I thought I’d post my thoughts.

The phone still looks the same (though I went with white this time around), but that doesn’t change the fact that there is still nothing else on the market that can touch it as far as design and build quality goes. That’s actually kind of crazy when you think about it considering that this design has been in the wild for 16 months. That being said, the phone still has two slabs of glass making up most of the surface so it remains as breakable as ever.

While there was a lot of disappointment in the iPhone 4S’s announcement, after using this thing for a few days, it seems that much of that disappointment is missing the point. The iPhone 4S is mostly just a spec bump, but its bump is just enough to finally put it over the top. Where the iPhone 4 was very good, the iPhone 4S is great.

The iPhone 4S finally reaches a point where the device and the software melt away and you’re just left with content and things you want to do. Nothing stands in your way now.

Most of the time, the added speed of the A5 processor isn’t a night and day difference, but sometimes it is. Apps open significantly faster and while the iPhone 4 was snappy and definitely no slouch, the iPhone 4S makes moving around in apps a much improved experience. There is no lag, even in places where I could always count on my iPhone 4 to hang up for a second or so. Everything is much smoother and snappier in a tangible way.

The data speeds are supposed to be faster on the iPhone 4S (for AT&T at least), but in a few rounds of Speed Test, there was no change. However, in practice, data seems to come down insanely faster. Much of it is probably due to the A5 processing things faster, but websites load tons faster (and Javascript executes much quicker). Twitter pulls the latest tweets down almost instantly. Facebook too. Every app, really. The content you’re trying to get to is put up on the screen almost as fast as you ask for it. Considering that LTE is not on board, this is impressive. Impressive enough that not having LTE (which any sane person shouldn’t have expected from Apple this year anyway) doesn’t feel like a problem right now.

All of this added speed means iOS now keeps up with you. You’re no longer waiting for it, it’s waiting for you. Simply put, where iPhone 4 was close, but the iPhone 4S is there.

The iPhone 4 camera was still the best camera you could get on a phone up until just recently. Hell, some probably still consider it to be the best. But it was just barely not enough to justify ditching a point-and-shoot altogether. More than half the time, yes, it was enough, but I always kept my point-and-shoot near the door. The iPhone 4S changes that. It is sharper, has better dynamic range, better color, more pixels, and significantly better low-light performance. My DSLR won’t see any decrease in usage, but my point-and-shoot is going in the desk drawer upstairs and may never come out again. The photos and videos that iPhone 4S can take are stunning. Unless you need a superzoom, you won’t need a point-and-shoot while you have an iPhone 4S in your pocket.

I’ve posted some very quick sample shots at the bottom of the post. These were taken quickly without any attention paid to composition, but they should give you an idea of what the camera is capable of. None of them have been processed in any way except to reduce their size.

Siri has been the most talked about feature of the iPhone 4S since it was announced and for good reason. Before using it or seeing a demo, it’s easy to dismiss it as another voice control feature that you’ll never use. I almost did myself. But when you actually use this, you realize it’s so much more. This is the start of the future. This is the point where we’ll look back and pinpoint as the beginning of being able to truly have conversations with your technology and have it do things for you.

If you’ve been on the internet at all since Friday, you’ve probably already seen much of the fun people have been having with Siri. I’ve had a lot of fun testing her out and seeing how she’ll respond to things. She’s fun, but I’m not going to add another post on the internet about how if you keep bugging her about the meaning of life, she’ll say “42, are you happy now?” She’s full of countless snark and provides a lot of fun. She has an attitude and that’s important. She responds almost like a person would and that makes it feel real. It makes it feel like she’s a real person and that she can truly understand you. It’s unlike anything else you’ve ever used because it’s unlike anything else that has ever existed. This is the real thing.

That attitude is coupled with the fact that she can hold a conversation. She is smart enough to understand what you say even if you say it differently. She gets context. I can say “remind me to email John Smith about the concert this weekend when I get home” and she will create a reminder that will go off as soon as I get to my house. The reminder will say “Email John Smith about the concert this weekend” because she understands that that was what I wanted the reminder to say. I can say “tell my wife that I’ll be late” and she’ll text my wife telling her that I’m going to be late. “Take me to the mall” gets me the same thing as if I say “I need directions to the mall.” She just gets it.

You can tell her to do things the way you would tell a real person. And that’s why she works. That’s why Siri will actually get used. Because she can understand you so well, she can actually do things faster than you can on your own. It’s not a gimmick. You probably won’t use her too much in public, but thanks to the ability to have her automatically kick on when you put your phone up to your ear, you might actually use her while walking down the street or in the store. It’ll look just like you’re having a conversation with someone on the phone.

I’ve noticed that because she has to send everything to Apple’s servers, sometimes she takes a few seconds to respond, but it’s generally not bad. Everything going to Apple’s servers is a good thing though. Apple says she’ll learn from you and from the user base as a whole. With Apple knowing how people are using it, they can adapt it even more to the real world. This is the beginning, but she will get so much better. It won’t be long before you can say “how are the Eagles doing” and she’ll give you the score of the game.

Is Siri enough to justify buying an iPhone 4S if you already have an iPhone 4? I don’t know, that’s tough, maybe not. But if you’re on the fence already, she should push you over.

That about covers the big changes from that the iPhone 4S brings to the table. There are smaller ones like a better antenna design which seems to work as advertised, but I never had much of a problem with my iPhone 4 in most places. There’s also a new vibration motor which sounds like a silly thing to mention, but you can feel (and hear) the difference. This one is smoother and actually feels a little more luxurious. It’s an added thing that helps to make the device feel high-end.

The iPhone 4S isn’t perfect for what it is though. The battery life is noticeably worse than my iPhone 4. It’s not terrible, I can still get close to two days from a charge, but it is less. However, the battery life feels similar to what I was getting from my iPhone 4 after upgrading to iOS 5, so that may be part of it. I have the notifications set to display my email on the lockscreen so every email I receive turns on the display for a few seconds. That probably accounts for a large chunk of it. It also seems like the battery depletes faster when using Siri. Either way, the battery life is still good enough that it won’t be a problem. That’s the major complaint though, I still have some issues with iOS and I’m hoping that iOS 6 will fix much of them, but we’ll see. For now, the iPhone 4S doesn’t fix them, but Siri does actually make a few of them easier to live with. Any other hardware complaints would simply be highlighting choices that Apple made (e.g. not doing a larger screen), not design flaws.

As you’ll hear everywhere else, if you have an iPhone 3G or 3GS, upgrade now. Just do it. If you have an iPhone 4, it’s tough, but this device is good enough to reduce three gadgets you may already use down to one and the speed will save you a lot of time throughout the day. If those things mean something to you, upgrade. If not, hold out another year. If you aren’t currently an iPhone user and are thinking about becoming one, this is the phone to get. And if you don’t have a smartphone at all yet and are looking to get one, I’d recommend this over anything else. I’m not going to say iOS is better than Android, I think they are both great in their own ways, but if you don’t already have a smartphone at this point, you’re likely to fall into the camp of people who will enjoy iOS’s way of doing things more.

For me personally, I’m finding the iPhone 4S to be a worthy upgrade. I’m happy with my decision so far.

Such a great show last night. Musically, at least. I keep saying it, but there’s just a ton of great music out there right now. It finally got to the point where I impulse bought a new iPod last night. My 3.5 year old 60GB one just wasn’t cutting it anymore. It still works like brand new–I don’t know how, I don’t treat it very well–but I need more space!

For the past year or so, it’s been an hour long process every time I want to add music to it because I have to sit there and really think about what music I can take off and be okay not having on me at any given time. It’s really hard! And yeah, I know you’re thinking “who the hell needs that much music?” Well, I don’t know what I’m going to want to listen to later on! It could be anything! At any given time, I can really only have less than 25% of my music on me. And with all of the new stuff I’ve been trying to listen to lately,  it’s hard to find space to keep adding things while keeping all of the old stuff as well. Sure, there is plenty of music that I have that I’ll never want to listen to and can be fine without, but that only takes me down to maybe 160GB which is still more than the 120GB worth of space on the new iPod–seriously, Apple, why did you get rid of the 160GB model?

This has been helped a little lately by SimplifyMedia. It streams my entire music collection over the internet so I can access anything from my iPhone or from my computer at work. On a computer, it’s not too bad, but my collection is so big that my iPhone has a lot of trouble handling it to the point where the app is barely worth messing with at all. That part was a little disappointing.

Whatever, I like music and it’s only getting worse as I decided lately that I need to get more into jazz, classical, and hip hop. Three genres that I really enjoy, but have a very limited amount of. I’ve been trying to beef up in these areas, but that just makes finding the space for it even harder. And as for finding time to listen to everything, that’s just impossible!

My life is so hard.

But anyway, here’s what I played on the radio show last night. Like I said, great show.

Source: 90.3 The Core

I caved.

I really wanted to hate this thing. When Steve Jobs first announced the iPhone at MacWorld 2007, I thought it was absolutely silly to have no buttons on a phone. And the fact that the system was so closed and there is no removeable media wasn’t helping anything either. So later that year when it came time to buy a new phone, I went with the AT&T Tilt, a Windows Mobile phone with a slideout QWERTY keyboard and GPS made by HTC. It’s a really great phone. I tweaked the hell out of it–I won’t go into details–but at the end of the day, Windows Mobile is slow, ugly, and slow. It needs a complete overhaul. I got sick of how cumbersome the software was to use and started looking at Google’s Android, but even a few months after the first phone, the T-Mobile G1, has been released, I think it still needs about another year worth of work before it is really ready for primetime.

About that same time, I was playing around with my friend’s iPhone a bit. I found that on my very first try, I could type out a message almost as fast and just as accurately as I could on the QWERTY keyboard on my Tilt. I had a series of other things I thought would be problems with the iPhone, but this was the biggest and it turned out to be a non-issue. Then I started looking through the AppStore, there’s an application for everything! I also realized that even though my Tilt had a microSDHC slot, I never swapped out the card or needed extra space so this wasn’t an issue either. At this point, with the overall slickness of the user interface which is a complete departure from any other smartphone I’ve ever used, I was sold. Very sold.

So a few weeks later, I picked one up for myself and after using it for a month, I can easily say that this is the single best electronic device I have ever used. It’s actually not even a close call. I can do pretty much anything you can imagine with this thing, a lot more than you can do with any other smartphone other there. It’s incredible really.

I generally like things to not be dumbed down for me, but the slickness of the user interface and overall snapiness make it such a joy to use that I don’t even miss some of the more advanced things that Apple likes to hide from its users. And when I do, I can usually get to them via a jailbreak application. So far, I have found very little that I couldn’t pull off with my Tilt if I wanted, but this just does it many levels better and faster. In comparison, the only thing that I don’t have on my iPhone that I had on my Tilt is voice based navigation, but I’m pretty convinced that this will be coming soon through the AppStore.

Even the minor details that Apple added in are wonderful. For example, the screen. The auto-adjusting of brightness based on ambient light is amazing. On my Tilt, I had to map a button to be able to easily adjust how bright the screen was. I had to use it all day long. Since I got the iPhone, I haven’t had to adjust it once. When I’m laying in bed at night, it’s perfect, doesn’t hurt my eyes at all. When I’m in the office, perfect. Outside in direct light, perfect.

Seriously, this thing is always in my hand. I use it constantly. Battery life has been bit of a complaint for a lot of people, but I find no trouble getting through a full day with a lot of usage and I think it could be possible to get through an entire weekend on a single charge just by turning off 3G and wifi and being mindful of data and GPS usage. Really it’s about the same, if not slightly better than, my Tilt.

There are a few minor complaints that I have with it, but they really are minor. Lack of a flash for the camera, lack of video recording, lack of any ability to do any photo album management on the phone itself, and the fact that multitasking is not available for third party apps. Most of my other complaints that I would have had, includind lack of copy and paste, have been fixed simply by jailbreaking the phone.

I think my biggest problem with it now is actually that I’ve gotten completely addicted to the AppStore. I’m constantly looking for new apps to install and mess around with. I think I’ve downloaded like sixty or so of them so far.

I actually don’t use it at as a music player much. I stick with my three year old iPod for everything but the gym. So the iPhone is only loaded up with maybe 20 or 30 albums to get me through my workouts. However, if they could put out an iPhone with as much or more storage than my iPod (60GB), I’d be all over it. However, when I do use it as a music player, I find that I absolutely hate coverflow. I think it’s really annoying to go through more than just a handful of albums that way. And most of my music doesn’t have artwork with it so it kind of defeats the purpose.

I feel like a complete nerdy fanboy for liking this thing the way that I do, but Apple really outdid themselves. I know it’s been two years since it was first announced so I’m a little late, but I can’t get over how obsessed I have become with this thing.

Here are my favorite apps so far:

• Facebook
• Twitterfon – Great free Twitter app
• eWallet – Stores  and encrypts passwords and all kinds of personal information
• Bankarama – Basically just a simple way to keep track of expenses and the money in your bank account
• Guitar Toolkit – Tuner, metronome, chord finder and more
• iMapMyFitness – A nice little interface for mapmyrun.com. Includes GPS tracking for when you’re running outside and can upload your run right to your account
• Toodledo – Interface for toodledo.com, an excellent todo list site
• Now Playing – Great app for getting movie showtimes, reviews, and information and managing your Netflix queue

I have a ton more that I use everyday, but these apps really stand out as being insanely useful. I also was able to set up FTP, MySQL, and text-editing very easily so that if I need to quickly troubleshoot a bug in the software that I develop and manage for my radio station, I’m ready to go. It’s actually a lot easier than it was with my Tilt.

I was practically raised by James Bond movies when I was a kid. I used to watch them all the time, over and over again. One of my favorite things about them, besides the cheesy humor, was all of the gadgets that he had. Even when I was a kid I was as much of a geek for gadgets as I am now. With that out of the way, it should be no surprise that Iron Man kept me captivated for the entire two hours. There were insane gadgets galore and I wanted all of them. ALL OF THEM. From the insane computers and robots with serious artificial intelligence to the nearly indestructible Iron Man suit that could fly and mow down bad guys like there is now tomorrow, these gadgets kicked ass.

I’m not much of a comic book nerd, but from what I hear, the movie was right on with the comics which seems to rarely happen. And while I can’t really compare to the Tony Stark from the comics, I thought that Robert Downey Jr. killed it. He was absolutely great in the role.

The action was great too. I definitely sat there with my mouth dropped a few times with only the word “damn” coming to mind.

From beginning to end, this movie kicked ass. Gadgets, a couple hot babes, action, classic villainy, explosions. This movie had it all.

Grade: A

If you’re anything like me, and hopefully you’re not, you’ve become way too reliant on technology. Everyday, I rely on at least two computers working properly at home, my cell phone, and my iPod. If anyone of these stop working for even a moment, my whole life gets thrown into disarray. I can handle my car breaking more than any of these giving me problems. My phone is a PocketPC smartphone so I keep my life in it. I store all of my friends’ phone numbers, email addresses, birthdays, and more in there. I also keep my to-do list, calendar and appointments, passwords to websites, insurance and financial information, and a list of my DVD collection in there (this is necessary when you buy so many DVDs that you can’t keep track of what you own and don’t own). I also use my phone for GPS, an alarm clock, and in place of a watch. Not to mention how much I use it for internet use when I’m out.

My phone = my life.

It’s sad that I got this bad. It didn’t happen overnight though. It slowly built up over the last three or four years as I added more and more bits of my life to it. For a short while before that, I used a paper pocket planner and remembered everything else. And before that, say five years back, I used to just remember everything. I didn’t have a problem either. I never forgot anything. Appointments, to-do stuff, phone numbers and email addresses, and passwords, I remembered it all. Now that I rely on my phone to keep track of all of this stuff, I can’t even remember what I’m doing tomorrow night even though I just made plans about a half hour ago. It’s really bad. I hate being this reliant on technology, but there are some advantages to keeping all of this stuff in a PDA (my phone, in this case). This is not the blog post for that.

Over the weekend, my phone decided that it would be a good idea to break itself. It was a software problem so I was able to fix it by doing a “hard reset.” This basically restores your phone to the state it was in when you first opened the box. So I lost everything on it. Normally, I keep backups and would be able to just restore everything. However, since I switched my laptop to Linux two months ago, I haven’t been able to. Syncing a PocketPC device with Linux is a pretty involved process to get set up and then when it’s set up, it doesn’t really work too well. Or at least that’s what my experience has been. On top of just keeping data synced, I have the ability to create backups in a similar manner to imaging your computer’s hard drive. Unfortunately, I didn’t schedule these because I mostly cared about the data that was being synced between my computer and my phone anyway so I thought I was covered…and I didn’t think about this when I changed operating systems on my laptop.

With my last “full” backup being from November, I figured that it’d be best to pull the last bit of synced data from my the last Windows image of my laptop–at least I’m good about imaging my computers–before I switched to Linux. This didn’t go so well. The files that I needed were stored on a hard drive partition that didn’t get imaged. I just copied out the important things from there and trashed the rest to save hard drive space. It was kind of a Spring cleaning thing for me since I’m a horrible digital pack rat. Turns out that, for some reason, I didn’t think it was important to save the files with my phone’s sync data.

So all of this left me with having to restore from my November image and rebuild from there. Everything added since then is now gone. Contacts, tasks, appointments and all of the other stuff I mentioned above. Everything.

Over the course of the last few days, I’ve been able to pretty much get everything back from memory or by recompiling from various places where the original data came from. I should say that by “everything,” I mean the stuff that I can remember having in there. While it’s been a pain in the ass, the only things that are gone forever at this point are my text messages. Since my phone doesn’t limit how many I can save, I keep them all. I had some good ones from friends that I wanted to keep. The kind that provide a good laugh when you decide to go back through them when you’re bored. I’m sad to see these go, but such is life, as they say.

Despite all the headaches of restoring all of this information, the worst part was just how lost I was for a few days until I had it all restored. I was a complete mess. Half the day on Sunday, I couldn’t even receive or make phone calls until I was able to get my phone to boot up again. This kind of sucked since my parents were coming up to take me out to dinner and I couldn’t get a hold of them all day. Luckily, they came over even though I didn’t answer the phone when they called, but I was a mess during dinner. I was super stressed and freaking out about losing everything on my phone. I can’t imagine that I was fun to be around. All I did was bitch and complain about my phone.

Sunday night, I couldn’t sleep because I didn’t have an alarm clock to wake me up on Monday morning. I’m sure I’ve got a few packed in boxes in the basement, but I decided to just use my girlfriend’s phone instead. Unfortunately, my body was not OK with this and I literally woke up every ten minutes to check the time thinking that I had overslept. Monday and Tuesday, I had no idea what I was doing. I didn’t know if I had stuff planned that I needed to do. It’s still possible that I missed an appointment and don’t even know.

Looking back, I can’t say that this is the first time that this kind of thing has happened. Usually it’s with a computer and I usually have backups so it’s not as bad, but this was just a mess. I have vowed to never let this happen again and I have set my phone up to automatically back itself up to it’s memory card once a week. But I know technology and I know how reliant I am on it, so the odds of a similar mess never happening to me again are pretty slim.

The lesson, kids, is to always back up ANYTHING that you might think is important. Be it this type of information, your music/movie collection, important documents, photos, whatever. Just keep backups and keep those backups in a safe place!

And speaking of music collections, if I ever lost my entire music collection, I’m pretty sure I would just commit suicide on the spot.

On Saturday, I took a trip over to Best Buy to pick up a a couple (literally two) DVDs, but I instead walked out having spent over $550. While I was in the store, I decided to pick up a Playstation 3 (and a bunch of other DVDs). Not really because I care about it on a gaming level since Guitar Hero and Rock Band are the only games that I’m really interested in on the system, but mostly because I wanted a blu-Ray player.

I got home and kind of took my time opening up the box and hooking it up, but once I did, I was met with a couple annoyances that I wasn’t aware of prior to buying. The first is that it does not include an IR port so you can’t use a regular universal remote control with it. I was able to go out and buy a third party IR remote that came with a little USB dongle so I can map those commands to my universal, but the system can’t be powered on or off via remote unless you have a bluetooth remote. The second was that if you have it plugged in to two different outputs, you have to manually switch between which one you want to use from within the settings on the system. This sort of becomes a problem when you need to turn on the display that you don’t want to use just to switch to the other display. In my case, I have it hooked up to do component video to my receiver for my TV and HDMI going straight to my projector. My previous upconverting DVD player would automatically switch to HDMI if the projector was turned on and if it wasn’t, it would just stick with component. Is this really too much to ask?

All of that aside, 30 Days Of Night on Blu-ray on my projector on a 10′ screen? Simply beautiful. I couldn’t get over just how good it looked. It made the purchase worth every penny.

Now that the format war is over, I really recommend picking up a Blu-ray player if you have an HDTV and watch a lot of movies.

Last night, we went over to this podcaster meet and greet thing, but it was pretty crowded so we didn’t stay very long. Though, while we were there I saw ex-CNET star Veronica Belmont who happens to be my favorite internet celebrity (iCeleb?). I’m sure she has a Google alert set up for herself so that’s going to make me feel like a pretty big weirdo for posting this, but meh. I got a picture with her, but it turned out a little blurry. She was super nice even though I felt like a total creep going up to her.

After that we went over to the Mission area and grabbed food at this crepes place that had James Bond music playing the whole time. I definitely caught the main James Bond theme as well as the songs from Moonraker and the Living Daylights. There were a few more that sounded familiar and James Bondy, but it was too loud for me to make out which movies they were from. The bathroom there was kind of crazy too. They had a foreign language training CD playing and the design was this interesting mermaid thing.

That pretty much concludes the trip. I’ll be hopping on a plane back to Jersey soon.

I just saw a very clearly homeless man standing on the street corner with a sign that said “my wife was kidnapped and I’m 15 cents short for ransom.” Honestly, does he really expect that anyone is going to believe that? And there’s no way that I’m going to give my change–yes, it’s only change–to someone who is clearly lying. Just be up front about it, “I’m homeless and I’m hungry. I would really appreciate some change so I can go eat, but I’ll probably just spend it on booze instead.” That might actually get what I’ve got in my pocket.

I also have been amazed that there are some street corners here in San Francisco where you can legally do a diagonal cross. The light turns red in all directions and the walk signs light up for all directions. The cops even tell you to do it. This boggled my mind!

Yesterday, I went to a few of the Macworld conference sessions which were mostly pointless. They were pretty basic and in one of the sessions, the guy pretty much just said “search Google” for an hour and fifteen minutes. I don’t think I could have figured that out on my own!

Today’s sessions were slightly better. I snuck into some of the IT oriented ones which were a little less of “you’re probably a retard.” There was actually some useful information to be taken from them.

Last night, we went to Cirque Du Soleil (it was the KOOZA one). I had never been before, but the others I was with had been. I thought it was amazing. Some of the stuff was super mind blowing. I never thought that I’d see a girl put her butt on the back of her head before, but it happened! There were also some crazy acrobatics, two guys riding bikes on a tight rope with a pole between then and then a guy balancing on a chair on top of the pole, a guy riding a unicycle with a girl standing on his head and while throwing her around. Some crazy juggling too. I could go on and on about it, but I won’t. I didn’t quite get exactly what the story was supposed to be during the show, but I think it’s something about a boy in a field daydreaming in a fantasy world and trying to find his place it all of it.

Today, for lunch, I went to a Chinese food place and found out that the whole “and then…?” joke from Dude, Where’s My Car? wasn’t just some funny thing that they came up with, but a real thing at Chinese places out here. I was sitting there eating my food and the entire time, I just hear a Chinese woman saying “and then?” over and over. It was kind of funny actually.

I only have a handful of pictures to post for this update. Most of the good stuff on the exhibit floor I had already gotten pictures of and during the actual Cirque du Soleil show, you can’t take pictures. It’s kind of reasonable that you can’t though. With some of the stuff that they do, I wouldn’t want to be the one to distract them and cause someone to fall.

Tonight, I think we’re going over to Mission which is where all the action is in the city or so we’re being told. We’ll find out!

Just got back from walking around the exhibitor floors. There’s so much! I only did an overview because it was pretty crowded and my feet are still killing me, but I got some pictures of stuff. I plan on going back later in the week when it’s a little less crazy.

For the most part, it’s just what I’d expect from a room filled with vendors. There wasn’t really a whole lot of schwag though. I was expecting a lot more. I did pick up a few pens and a nice picture from HP’s printer booth, but maybe when I go back later there will be more. It

It’s funny how you walk around these things and every company’s booth is (wo)manned by very attractive girls. For the most part, they were appropriately dressed and not of the “booth babe” variety, but it’s still crazy how much of a man’s event this is despite the fact that at least a third of the attendees that were walking around were women.