Went to the AMD Extreme Performance Project 2. It was actually rather amazingly lame. Not very close to a reality check at all. Things that should have been cool were instead pretty bad. For the Battle of the Boxes quiz ‘competition’, most of the questions were about AMD esoterica and corporate history (!?!). Give me a f’in break. Someone needs a reality check, that’s for sure. All in all, not exciting or fun at all despite the fact that free stuff was being given away. I came out liking AMD less after attending the event then I did going in. That is not, as I understand it, how these things are supposed to work.
Completely unrelated: the Imaging Resource Photography Lessons have some pretty fun tutorials, the lighting setups being especially fun.