Day 1 of conference [Tuesday 19]

There's not much to write about. JC and I met at the hotel lobby, to walked to the conference center, got the breakfast. Attended keynote presentations, some or them were quite good though one dragged on and on forever and it was unclear why it was even there. The metaphor of Minecraft for corporate strategy in technology innovation was pretty good. 

Attended a bunch of talks, got lunch which was a mediocre tofu banh mi, attended more talks. The evening talks were better, the hands-on coding during the end keynote was great.

Went back to the hotel and rested for a bit, before we headed out for a party organized by one of the sponsors. After waiting for fifteen minutes in the line before realising the party had a invitee list, we changed lines to the waiting list and quickly got ourselves in the waiting list on line. Ten minutes later we got entree to the grand k8s or die party.

It was a disappointment of epic proportions. Imagine if you took a regular disappointment, multiplies it by ten, took an assload of other unrelated disappointment heaped them all up in one disgusting sandwich before slathering with s bucketload of shit, that's how disappointing it was. The club was poppin and with different people in there at other times it might have been a fun place to be, but that wasn't it. The conversation from earlier between techies were still the same it's just the context was confusingly... hyperactive? It didn't feel like you were having fun, it was as if someone had put an eighteen year old in charge of an important corporate meeting without telling them what a corporate meeting actually was and they had decided to to all in to show their high school friends how cool they were. I don't drink and JC forgot his id so we were out after fifteen minutes 

We went to a Mexican restaurant nearby called the blind burro for dinner. Eight dollars a taco for mediocre tacos, JC said they were pretty good but not worth it, I definitely had much better tacos for a lot cheaper. Second day in a row that we were disappointed by SD food. We walked back, sad at not having our minds blown, I talked to a bunch of people and went to sleep at 12ish.