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Through a seat mixup Alaska Airlines upgraded me to first class on the way there. First class came with a very cushy seat, free drinks in a glass cup (ooh!), and this digiplayer thing that had an episode of Arrested Development and The Simpsons on it!
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The street outside my hotel felt very "California" to me.
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My hotel was pretty nice, although it didn't have WiFi in the room...
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City Hall is...charmingly retro?
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They had breakfast for us at Palm HQ. Their cafeteria looked pretty elegant.
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Ben & Dion gave the keynote.
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The second room for sessions was considerably smaller, but still nice.
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Old Palm Pilots and the like.
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A crystal Handspring PDA commemorating their IPO. Handspring was started by the people who started Palm, and Palm purchased them in 2003.
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An award for shipping the original Palm Pilot.
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The lobby had a bunch of blown up WebOS screens. Here's me in front of the Phone app!
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A wider shot of the lobby.
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Two Palm bags (the left one I got for buying stuff at the store, the right is the swag bag) in front of a Palm building. Artistic, no?
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I ended up walking back to the hotel after the mixer. I'm looking down on Hwy 85, I think.
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I walked by this panda antenna ball, and it was so adorable I had to stop and take a picture :-)
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Hooray! Back in Sunnyvale! (it was indeed a long walk)
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An oddly specific fine. Maybe it includes tax?
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Apparently all the (new?) cars have to have scores for global warming and smog.
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The Prius scored much better than the random minivan :-)
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My reward upon making it back to the hotel! I don't even like 7-Up, but I was thirsty enough to drink it anyway.
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The Caltrain is coming down the tracks!
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The tiny pedestrian gates stop you from crossing the track in front of a train.
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The Caltrain is very big.
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Ah, there's the sign I needed! Darn it.
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The light rail map is kinda neat.
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The light rail train is much smaller than the Caltrain :-)
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The convention center looks nice from the front.
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The Tech Museum of Innovation is a pretty neat place. Here's an exhibit where you can program Mr. Potato Head by moving around the words below.
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And here you can program a car by wiring things up!
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A robot arm drawing my picture.
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It suctioned it up and it's delivering it to me!
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The result is...OK. The lighting was poor and it needs a better thresholding algorithm :-)
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A map of how many genetic disorders each state requires newborns to be screened for.
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A fake hockey goalie!
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Trolley Crossing!
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A nice fountain in the middle of a very small park. And in the background you can see the Adobe building!
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The San Jose Museum of Art. Apparently it's some sort of historic building, which kinda explains the clock tower.
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A giant bronze state seal of California.
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Outside the art museum there was some sort of dance thing going on.
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I can't believe I missed this Star Trek exhibition by like two weeks! Oh well...
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A giant concrete snake. I read the plaque and didn't really understand.
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A map of lots of buses and railways and such.
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From the light rail you can see the giant Adobe CS5 banner.
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On the way back I noticed the Caltrain had two stories! So up I went.
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The HP Pavilion, where the San Jose Sharks play hockey.
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I never figured out what the deal with these flags were.
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If I hadn't been riding on top I never would have seen the crazy spiky material on top of this sign! Total payoff.
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A nice plaza I walked by on the way back to the hotel.
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Downtown Sunnyvale: not open yet (except for one measly Macy's)
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