Just went to the Bill Gates keynote. Completely and totally bizarre.

Two hours of sleep and fatigue-induced hallucinations probably aren't helping things seem any less weird, but I just didn't expect to be seeing him present. After learning yesterday that my flight had been cancelled, and then spending the better part of twelve hours going from Portland to Las Vegas to LA, I'm just surprised to be here at all.

He talked about a lot of cool stuff. I know I said that I was only going to write about what I saw in the bathroom, but I'm thinking that I might actually have to mention a thing or two about the whole reason that most people are even here. Part of that is Longhorn, and I just got my first glimpse. Didn't expect to be blown away, but it's going to totally change just about everything about everything. I'll go into more detail about that later.

What really held my attention, though, was the guy. It was watching Bill Gates address a room full of nerds while I thought about how all these weird people came to this weird city just to learn more about the products being put out by the company he started. It must be a weird feeling to know that there are people in the audience who rented crappy cars in Las Vegas and drove at high rates of speed through narrow desert highways that are more like living museums than they are valid transportation routes, just to come and check things out.

I mean, thousands of people all packed into this giant building just because Bill Gates wrote "donkey.bas".

That's nuts.