GDC 08: Daily Journal Day 1
9:30 AM
I’m up and out of the hotel pretty early. I have only the vaguest idea of where I’m walking. I see a lot of homeless people again on the way.
I pass by the San Francisco Chronicle and think for a moment that I see Jake Gyllenhall pass by.
I end up at the Moscone surprisingly quickly. In the lobby, I ask three different GDC show volunteers where the press office is and no one seems to know.
9:45 AM
I finally find my way up to the third floor where the press lounge is located and receive my badge.
I settle in at a desk to check my email and today’s early news.
N’Gai and Crecente are sitting across from me, debating the relevance of the SimExchange.
10:10 AM
Crecente and his sidekick McWhertor get up to move somewhere else because people keep coming over and introducing themselves to Brian.
11:00 AM
Shacknew’s world-famous Chris Faylor sat down across from me. Chief Shacking Officer Steve Gibson kindly asks me to tell him he’s a “huge fuckup.”
12:40 PM
I have a fantastic turkey sandwich for lunch. It’s served with orzo salad and a delicious brownie.
2:15 PM
Intel has a booth on this floor and at the behest of Chris Cossey, I check out these 3D goggles running a homebrew racer. The effect is really impressive and doesn’t give me a headache. That’s not me in the picture, by the way, but some guy who tried it out after me.
2:45 PM
There’s a group of boisterous Italian journalists here. One of them just proclaimed “Spore è fantastico!”
I’m discussing the importance of a pre-nup with the editors from Ripten.
4:10 PM
I’m in North Hall, now, where there’s a G4 trailer stationed outside and an X-Play set in the lobby.
I see Warren Spector from afar but he runs off in terror when I scream his name like a teenage girl at a Spice Girl’s concert.
5:50 PM
X-Play gets undue hate. I really do love these two.
6:30 PM
Someone could have told me the floor turns into stairs on the Muni. 
Boy was that embarrassing.