Video of Lord of the Cello

Let me know if you aren't able to download this video.

some pics and a video at 2008 ESRI UC

Hi, today is Tuesday, 8-5-08, and this place is jumping with activity. There's people everywhere and the internet and email connections have already slowed to a crawl because of the amount of traffic going through their servers :-( I don't have much time at all so I'm just loading a few interesting pics and a short video. Three individuals of note are: Jack Dangermond, the founder, owner, President of ESRI (the software company that is putting on this entire convention); Scott Moorehouse (bearded guy), who is the Lead Technical guy-in-charge of all software development at this company -- Jack calls him one of the best software engineers in the world; and Peter Raven, the keynote speaker who is the world famous botanist with 30 honorary Ph.D.s (and a real one, too!). The video is that of a musician who performs at this conference each year. He "name" is Lord of the Cello and he plays this home-made electric cello. He is actually pretty famous and has appeared in movies, TV shows, has CD recordings, and has performed all over the world.

This place is such a melting pot of nationalities, becuase it is a global conference. There are all kinds of languages being spoken, and many of the presenters are Chinese or Indian, or East European, etc (all software development engineers).

Pics...
Jack Dangermond


Scott Moorehouse


Peter Raven



Lord of the Cello (the upload times are so great that I'm not going to upload the video becuase it is a large file...so here is a picture of the musician)


funny car



Ok, I'm running late for the afternoon session, so I'll be off now.