NVIDIA invited me to their press event in London for their new mobile GPU - the 9400M. Unfortunately as I live in the wilds of England and have only small sums of hard cash to hand, I had to leave early and travel on the cheapest form of transport. In the 21st century it’s not robot cars or teleportation, it’s flying. Yes, the train was more expensive. Daft, eh?
I left my house at 5:10 in the morning. That’s too early. It was dark and a warm breeze blew autumnal leaves down the street. I shuddered at the early hour and the thought of the long day of traveling and waiting ahead of me. The taxi driver was cheery and chatted all the way to the airport. After a twenty minute conversation about computers, jobs in the North East and the decline of our home town, we arrived at Newcastle Airport. Strip lightning, horribly bright for 5:30AM, make me blink and probably look dead. If I was an airport worker, I’d bring a shotgun to work. Just in case the hordes of sandal wearing flyers and binge drink horrors turned into the undead. But then again, this is why I don’t work at the airport. Airports don’t like their staff carrying illegal firearms around. Goodness knows why. The zombie apocalypse is coming. The buggers at check in made me take my shoes off too, just in case I’d hidden all sorts of fun things in there. Luckily I’d flushed the huge quantities of cocaine stuffed in my moccasins in a fit of panic prior to check in. Onward!
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