| Adrienne Coerper tries in vain to get Mike Erickson to listen to the pleas of those of us with failing memories to make the names on the badges bigger. He laughs knowing how difficult it will be for us to read the name without being obvious. |
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| Adrienne works diligently at making sure every last one of us is signed in, registered, stamped, tagged and told where the bar is. |
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| Melinda Gallo's smile is so contagious that John Macrae doesn't seem to mind that he's actually being chewed out for not having a badge. |
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| Kent Wilbur tries to convince John Macrae that there isn't a mystical portal under the Internet Cafe table that will lead to the badge table. |
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| Tom and Dave join Kent to try to find John who apparently really has found a secret portal. It appears that the portal is radioactive and is quickly killing off brain cells of those closest to it. |
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| John Barrymore grins knowing that he is the only one of us three that trimmed his nose hairs. Diana "The Snow Angel" Nemirovsky, being the free spirit that she is, doesn't care. I, on the other hand, still don't know. |
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| Someone tries to nose in on Mike Beatty and Martha Leary's discussion on the latest Corona normalization techniques. |
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| Randall Wolf attempts to convince a crowd that he has a prereleased copy of PowerView. And that, in fact, he wrote it. And that he also invented computers. |
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| Stacy Blaney's spider senses are activated as she detects a discussion of an illegal copy of PowerView. |
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| Ed Heckman, Debbie Brewer and Mike Beatty relax at the pre-Summit party. It seems that Ed can tell that Mike is trying to pick his pocket. Debbie is without a drink because she knows there's even more work ahead. |
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| Brendan Coveney's face gives away his dismay when he sees that I've caught him drinking a non-alcoholic beer. "C'mon Brendan! You're going to need a real beer to make it through the Summit." |
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| Liz Delgado smiles for both herself and Doug Blew. Of course Doug doesn't have a drink yet, which could explain it. |
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| Someone else asks me to read their palm. As you can see, this person has a disconnected head line which often leads to going back to FileMaker development. |
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| Mike Beatty, Brendan Coveney, Chris Cypert and O Johnny Boy Steele pose with a cheerful grin on their faces. Well, all of them except John, because he knows that no one mistakes him for Jerry Seinfeld anymore. Note too that Brendan is still working on that same non-alcoholic beer. You'd think being the president would allow you certain privileges that other guys would be envious of. |
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| Tom B. Lundeen and Jim Rietz try to coax Keith out of the camera after a particularly embarrassing shot. |
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| Cheryl Michels smiles even though she knows I'm going to put this picture on the web. |
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| I can't convince Bryan Green that I can only read his right palm. Even with that explanation, he refuses to let go of his PowerBook. |
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| Lisa Dorenkamp explains to Eric Drucker that Selection to Array leaves a record about as loaded as you can get drinking one of Brendan's beers. Mike Carr finds the humor in it, but doesn't let on. |
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| Steve Hussey and... |
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| ... Mike Erickson. At first glance at their nose hairs you'd think they were separated at birth. The hair on their heads tell a different story. |
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| Just what and where Melinda Gallo poked John Steele with might never be known. How cold it was is pretty obvious. |
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| Karen Sabog smiles knowing that Jack Rogers will never be on the 4D NUG again. |
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| I then tell her that Jack's here to see her in person. |
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| Dave develops a terrible headache as he gets closer to his interface presentation. |
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| The pressure of a good head lock seems to make things a whole lot better. |
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