The week took a distinc turn for the better Thursday night at WWDC.  Tim and I had pretty much finished eating and walked up tot he upper level of the Yerba Buena Gardens park to get a bird’s eye view of how many people they could actually pack into this relatively small park.  5200 people attended WWDC and I didn’t think they could all fit, but apparently they could, but it was very tight.  While eating our Klondike bars and people-watching, Phil Schiller came on the music stage to announce the band for the night.  I was expecting a local SF group, to stay for a few songs, then head out.  When he announced it would be BNL, I turned to Tim and said “We’re Staying”.

What  a great show.  I wish the set was longer, but the extra value of the show was that the band are real Mac-heads and related extremely well to the crowd with some inside-politics types of jokes that only Apple fans would get.  They made a real connection that even people who didn’t really know their music (Tim) enjoyed.  In the video below (not taken by me) they tell Phil Shiller to stick around after he introduces them because “They will need him for some product demos later in the show”.

This morning when I woke up, I Google’d “Barenaked Ladies WWDC” and the first hit I got was of someone’s Flickr posting of this image.

Thats the back of mine and Tim’s head.   I think that is our better side.

I guess in the end all I wanted to say was “Great call Apple!!”

Spent the day yesterday hanging out with on of my gaming buddies, Jeff Lanza, in San Francisco. He lives in San Jose and came up and picked up Tim and I at our hotel and showed us the sights from San Francisco on up to Napa Valley. Along the way we went to the Golden Gate Bridge, saw some redwood forests, stopped at a roadside stand for some fresh peaches and Ranier Cherries (YUM!!), cruised up the 101 and Highway 1 and got an In-and-Out burger (not sure what everyone out here thinks is so great about them other than the atmosphere in the resturant), then up to see wine country through Sonoma and Napa.

After we returned to San Franciso we dined at the Stinking Rose, a garlic resturant, then got some gelato in Little Italy. It was a fun day checking out northern California.

Tim and I just registered for WWDC and are hanging out in Yerba Buena Gardens enjoying the great weather and clear blue skies. Heading to Alcatraz this afternoon. Glad I talked Tim into bringing the SLR (and not having to carry it Thanks Tim!!)

Also enjoying the AT&T USBConnect 881 HSUPA card here. Got a new driver for it yesterday that allows OS X to support it natively and its working well. Just wish I knew how fast I was connecting at. I’ve downloaded files at up to 220kbs with it out here.