Our angry russian cabbie

Welcome to SF

Chinese New Year's parade madness

So many people

We ate here first night, great thai food

Matt Me and Brandon, quite full

Shag arrives!

This is like out of TMNT

Bartender helping us get some balls

Matt's phallic power pool pose

Scoping out the venue for Tuesday's party

Meeting Derek and Alec for second dinner

Derek looks uncomfortable

Good conversation had by all

Shag now full too

Getting late, time for zzz

Walking home on insanely steep streets

Sunday morning; time for some exploration

Sweet architecture

Here comes the cable car!

Manual power turns the whole thing

Here we go, hanging off the side

Pretty close to the passed cars

Riding through chinatown

There's the sea! (and Alcatraz)

Famous windy road down

At the bike rental place, gearing up

Team dork, go!!

Riding along the shore of Fisherman's Wharf

Out to a pier with the view

That's where we started

GG bridge, we'll be on that soon

Good workout climbing hills

Guy training his dog to skate

Great park view

Approaching the bridge

Closer...

Closer still...

On it!

Tall stuff

City view

Takes over 10 seconds for anything dropped to hit the water

Cool view

Second pillar

Almost over it now

Arrived in quaint Sausalito

Having lunch

Chilling by the shore

Resting after the ride

Fancy art gallery

Boarding the ferry back to SF

Leaving Sausalito

Boatview of the bridge

These gulls followed us the whole way back

Sun setting with cool rays

Boatview of the prison island

Appoaching the city

Dinner with Jon Blow (Braid), Kyle Gabler (Tower of Goo), Jon Mak (Everyday Shooter), and Jenova Chen & co. (Cloud, flOw)

That Game Company (flOw, Cloud)

Blablablablaaa!

Nite dudes

Monday morning, time for some conference

FIrst day of conf is usually slow

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Jeff Minter makes my childhood flash before my eyes... Revenge of the Mutant Camels! I played that!

Lunchtime on the balcony

Yum.

Steve's excellent panel on innovation in games

Meeting up for dinner with Hampus Söderström (Toribash)

Derek leads us to this cool Irish pub hidden in an alley

Blablalalblaaaaa!

Goin home

Haha split beard!

Second day at the conference and the IGS

Matthew speaks well about physics games (88 slides in 44 minutes!)

Panel with Derek. Ass analogies abound. Zimmerman turns into an Agent.

Why are you looking at me!?

Pre-tuesday night party Chipotle run

Jake Kaufman who is going to play live chiptunes at the party

Flahsbang/IGF party begins!

Well-stocked open bar

Steve on second story

This place is getting crammed

Jake busting out the tunes

Cant... move... only... drink..

A master in action

Matt, who hooked up the venue

Derek huddling like a hobo

Party winding down

Walking home in a drunken daze

Wednesday morning, expo time!

Aquaria voice talent Jenna Sharpe playing the game at the IGF booths

Hampus showing off Toribash

flOw being played by three people at the Sony booth

Bling! I dig the paintjob

Amazing art duo Edmund McMillen (Gish, Blast Miner, etc) and Dan Paladin (Alien Hominid, Castle Crashers)

Derek and Jon going blablabla

Sim city running on the OLPC

Time for the awards ceremony!

Bit Blot winning the grand award! SO AWESOME

At the tables up front, for important people

Matthew cleaned out the bar and got really drunk at the VIP table

REALLY drunk

Lord British on stage

CliffyB and Gears receive a big fat award

You tell em, man

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Alexey Pajitnov (TETRIS) winning award too

This guy rocks

Shigeruuuuuuuuu

Miyamoto after the ceremony

Nintendo boss Reggie is ready to kick some ass

Walking home from the awards ceremony

Next morning, Miyamoto speaks at the N keynote

Time to leave this madness, flying home

Saying adios to everyone at the IGF booths

Taking the BART to the airport - bye SF