Palim Palim ... :-)

What else happened at Comdex? Well, 3Dfx showed how the perfect party can be!!!

This party had all that it takes, a cool place, no waiting for drinks at all, good music, super atmosphere, especially when Cool&The Gang was playing .. and the right people as well as the right amount of people! This party was all that the Eidos party at E3 could have been. Yes, I take it back, Americans do know how to throw a party as well!

On Tuesday Ben from KillerApp , Pete from Gamers Extreme , famous Dennis 'Thresh' Fong , Alex 'Sharky' Ross from 'Sharky Extreme' and me went to a special event for the Taiwanese computer industry in the Mirage. Each of us had to give some kind of speech, Dennis, Alex and I were told about 20 minutes before it took place. After the speeches I did a short Q&A-session as well. It was a lot of fun doing this, although the auditorium wasn't very big and loud music came in from a room next door. After the Q&A I had a quick interview with a Taiwanese TV station and then we went over to dinner. I'd just like to show a few photos from there. Unfortunately I haven't got pictures of Ben and Dennis (Thresh). Hope you'll enjoy the photos of Alex and me.

Alex - concentrating ... ?

Blah blah -. :-) Tom in a world of his own

Later on we all went to my favorite place in Las Vegas, the Voodoo Lounge and Michael was almost too greedy to pay a nice limo for us all. The guys who were at the Eidos party know that this time it wasn't me to sort out the limo.

Wednesday was kinda relaxed, at 1 PM I did the ZDTV interview with Leo Laporte. I received a lot of mails where people complained that Leo cut me off several times. You bet that I don't like this either, but in a TV show you've got to stick to the time frame, so Leo did what he had to do, and I'd say he did it pretty nice.

In the evening we went to Mystere, Cirque de Soleil in the Mirage, which was kinda cool, although I heard it's not quite as cool as O, Cirque de Soleil in the Bellaggio. Afterwards it was Voodoo Lounge time again, but on that Wednesday night the life music kinda sucked a bit.

I am not going to write about the flight back to San Francisco on Thursday with my favorite nightmare airline United Airlines, but I can say that I really like Las Vegas McCarran Intl. Airport, you can even get quite good food there.

Some of you may know that I dislocated my left shoulder even twice in the week before Comdex, giving me a completely new definition of the word pain. I first thought that I wouldn't be able to fly over to Las Vegas at all, since my left arm was pretty unusable. Thanks to my brother Rainer I could go. He canceled all his appointments for that week of Comdex and flew over together with me, helping and body guarding me for the whole Comdex time. Thanks Rainer, you know I love you man!