I know that hill. Thanks for the update…..

Okay, okay try to keep it down, some of us are trying to sleep here… Air flight out on Thursday, back Monday morning, giving me three full days for the convention. Mod Shop / Maximum PC arranged a limo for me from to and from the airport and some spending money as travelers checks waiting at the hotel. They had reserved a room in the Edgewater hotel – built out ON pier 67. I didn’t think much about it until I opened the drapes on Friday morning to see a huge cruise ship docked at pier 66. (There was a new one each morning.)

I elected the the healthy approach of walking the distance uphill (not both ways, thank-you-very-much.) My legs are still sore – I don’t know about you guys, but case modding doesn’t count as much exercise…

As conventions go, this was definitely bigger than any I have been to, at least in terms of attendance. Even some of the World SciFi Conventions I attended probably had only 4-5000 people wandering around. The lines on Friday were crazy. One large hall was used just for line queuing to the main events. I sat around until about 2:30 and then wandered over to the hall to get in line. Things moved fairly quickly, although I didn’t reach the Expo hall until almost 3:30. That was toward the end of the rush, and they were collapsing the extra hairpin lines a bit behind my position. The attendance estimate was something like 50-60,000 attendees – they count a 3-day pass as 3 people, but it still comes out to huge crowds.

Lots of non-PC games, board games, card games, you-name-it games. I had 200 “don’t panic” buttons made up for a PAX button exchange and came back with about 150 different ones. Other “swag” includes a bag of tiny pink flamingos for a “Trailer Park Wars” board game – Maybe I can come up with some sort of stupid “red-neck” case mod that needs some – who knows.

Lots of “booth babes” and other good looking attendees (but everyone looked sooo young – sorry, I seem to be getting rather pathetic in my old age…) Check out Norman Chan’s article on Maximum PC for pics (he did miss a few.) http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/pax_08_gallery_100_cosplayers_…

I didn’t see all that much PC stuff considering all of the vendors in the expo, and I was also surprised that the number of any unusual case mods was tiny considering the huge number attending the Bring Your Own Computer playoffs.

Hey: Plz give us an update on PAX......

Congrats jadragon, fantastic looking case. Very true to the contest. May the Vogons cheer and and quote a poem in your name, but dont count on it…...

in-cred-i-ble!! i am in love with this case!! i don’t look forward to a battle with the zargons