You can see from the picture above the wildly exciting time that was had by all at the big party last night. For those of you not aware, I am at the Cisco Networkers conference in San Francisco this week. This is the 20th anniversary of the conference. Every year they have a customer appreciation event which varies in location and entertainment depending on the year and city of the conference. This year the them was Party like it's 1989 in honor of the 20th anniversary. Every year this also always some sort of hat that is given to all attendees. As you can see from the picture above, this year's hat was a big success and there were no discarded ones on the way out for me to scavenge to bring home for all the kids.
The party was on Treasure Island in the middle of San Francisco Bay and featured a bunch of carnival rides/food and an 80's concert hosted by Martha Quinn from MTV way back in the day. They had the lead singer from Flock of Seagulls, The Sugarhill Gang, Tone Loc, Howard Jones, Tears for Fears, the Bangles, Devo, and the B-52s. Despite the fact that the temperature was around 45 degrees and the wind was a constant 20 mph or so, a good time was had by all.
I know what you are all secretly thinking, so let me just confirm that you are correct in your suspicion that your lives are pathetically sad and empty because you really haven't lived until you've spent 4 hours freezing your butt off on a July evening in the middle of San Francisco Bay with 10,000 drunk networking geeks all wearing Devo hats singing along with a bunch of singers/bands that haven't performed in so long that they themselves have forgotten the words to their own songs. (Susanna Hoffs forgot the words to Walk Like an Egyptian. It was okay, though because she looked fabulous while forgetting them...) ;-)
