FMX 08, Day Zero
Currently the fmx, the Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Digital Media, resides for the 13th time in Stuttgart. Big woo because this year I’m among the participants. But my trip actually started on Sunday when I was getting ready, also mentally, for my upcoming days of celebrated geekdom.
It all began a couple of weeks ago when I was hastily asked on the threshold of a door if I wanted to join this year’s conference.
I said and it was settled.
This weekend most of my colleagues sharing my major at college drove on Sunday the 350 kilometers up to Stuttgart where they probably enjoyed a nice evening and had a whole night of sleep to prepare themselves for today’s tour de force of lectures and presentations. The same night I was busy mass-producing ten portfolio DVDs complete with menu and all the necessary PDFs in the DVD-ROM section. When the printer finally printed the labels in the right location on the templates it was already 1am. As the printer was busy labeling, I got busy myself preparing and packing my bags for the four day trip. Big mistake! Currently I am sitting in bed with my notebook 1 here in Stuttgart, assembling the following list of things I should have brought with me before leaving:
- Soap
- Shampoo
- Something to eat
- Something to drink – anything
- A charger for my cell phone
- A charger for my digital camera’s batteries
- A map (at least printed out) of Stuttgart in case my navigation system fails to operate (as happened when trying to reach the hotel)
- A micro-particle-emission seal mandatory for vehicles in Stuttgart. I’ll gamble and see whether I get to pay the fine of 40 €
- My iriver
- Something to read apart from the fmx program.
- Chewing gum
What I have learned today
- That you should never pack your bags when you’re tired and/or otherwise occupied
- That drinking self-made ice tea doesn’t help falling asleep quickly
- Neither does playing Audiosurf
- although not romantically ↩
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