portland: the homogeneous sleepy city from hell.

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beautiful portland weather. we had a stellar choice of restaurants to choose from around the convention center. dennys or red robin, anyone?
the sgi robot whose limited vocabulary and voice recognition software obviously did not cover xxx words. try as we might, we were unable to provoke him into saying anything incriminating.
an incredible display. i'm not sure if this was some hdtv product but it was virtually indistiguishable from the real thing.
i believe this is the cray t3e.
and this, one of their vector supercomputers.
linux had a strong presence at sc99. even tux was there!
this really ought to be in the beginning but since i'm already typing this...
matt welsh at our rendevous point: the hilton lobby.
fred wong fixing his hair.
matt massie preparing to do some macking.
matt welsh's unsuperstitious friend.
one of the few good things about portland.
donkey kong jr. baby!
another shot. hm, perhaps i should play it using mame.
eric fraser concentrating intensely as he tries to free donkey kong.
fred wong showing dead accurate precision on the game he currently rules.
matt welsh giving fred some competition.
albert goto in action.
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