I attended the CaliFest Descent LAN in Fremont, CA in 2003, and we decided to make a road trip out of it.
Landscapes
This is a slideshow of various shots we took along the route from Houston to Fremont.
Petroglyph National Monument
We stopped in Albuquerque and visited the Petroglyph National Monument. It is quite a climb to the top!
Grand Canyon
No tour across the US Southwest would be complete without visiting the Grand Canyon. Pictures do not do this place justice, but I'll try.
Disneyland
A two day stop in Anaheim brought us to Disneyland for the first time. It's a much smaller experience, but somehow still manages to capture the Disney magic.
Carlsbad Caverns
Carlsbad Caverns is quite an amazing place. The nightly bat show is definitely something worth watching... if you're not afraid of bats, anyway.
SeaWorld
Our final stop was in San Antonio, and we spent the day at SeaWorld. Kathy loves the dolphins.
As an added bonus, we took some video of the killer whales doing some tricks.
In California, truck license plates are 7 characters, all numbers except for one letter in either the second or the sixth position. Whenever that letter is an X, I get nerd snipped into treating it as a multiplication problem and solving it in my head.
we should have paid more attention to the cats who, for decades, put their bodies on the line to walk on keyboards and sit on laptops and prevent us from programming
Former 2 time world champion DogPlayingTetris becomes the first player to ever rollover the level counter in NES Tetris, performing what's known in the community as "Rebirth". Final score: 29,486,164, 4216 lines, level 347 (256 + 91)... all huge world records. #tetris
I'd also love a 6 hour layover overnight instead of taking the red eye I was going to take and be 7 hours later getting into Cleveland than I wanted, why do you ask? #airporthell
Why yes, I'd love to leave at 4:40 to get to the airport at 6:20 for an 8:20 flight that got delayed to 9:05 which is too late for my connection so now I'm on a 10:20 flight instead. Why do you ask? #airporthell
@shanselman Who at Microsoft do I have to bribe to fix ADO so that those of us on dark mode who copy/paste text from one task to another can do so without our friends on light mode seeing dark text on a dark background?
I updated the blog post with a statement from Revival. While I'm not particularly happy with Revival's decision, I understand their motives. It's just a shame that it was someone from Interplay that had to go and do this. "By games for gamers" my ass.
Damn, got another Tetris world record! This time in the arcade variant developed by Atari. 6,008,005 points, 5,386 lines, round 363. Be warned, it's nearly FIVE HOURS. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2131759212