http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpIPm7onRb4
I (Hour Destiny) was watching someone do a challenge at this booth and they couldn’t beat it. I told the people hosting the challenge how to beat it, so they setup a different one and challenged me to beat it. A woman standing near approached me, introduced herself as working for TechTarget, and said that she was looking for a “victim” to film for their blog. I consented to be her “victim” and she filmed the challenge.
My prize was called a “Network Macgyver survival kit” and looked like a mini lunchbox and inside was a piece of Bazooka Joe bubble gum (for keeping fans from blowing papers away), some duct tape, a shoelace
(for cable management), a network cable, a rack mount screw, and a paper clip (for CDs jammed in a drive).
Interop is an IT conference every year in May in Las Vegas. I got to spend 3 days at this one. Stayed at the Excalibur and had a 42″ plasma TV in the room. I brought so much stuff back (including 34 pens of different kinds), I couldn’t believe it. I even won an iPod Shuffle. I also brought back some software, 2 decks of Microsoft playing cards, a remote control, a tape measure/calculator/notepad, a jogging radio/compass, a boomerang, a Rubix’s cube, retractable earbuds, flashing LED dice, a wall-crawler in the shape of a brain, a screwdriver with a level in it, a multi-purpose screwdriver with multiple bits in the handle, a couple yo-yo’s, have a dozen T-shirts (including one in the shape of a throwing star), a head-bobber, and lots more.
I also mentioned Second Life(tm) and Space Destiny(tm) to some of the exhibitors and found that a couple of them are in SL.
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