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Through a seat mixup Alaska Airlines upgraded me to first class on the way there. First class came with a very cushy seat, free drinks in a glass cup (ooh!), and this digiplayer thing that had an episode of Arrested Development and The Simpsons on it!

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The street outside my hotel felt very "California" to me.

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My hotel was pretty nice, although it didn't have WiFi in the room...

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City Hall is...charmingly retro?

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They had breakfast for us at Palm HQ. Their cafeteria looked pretty elegant.

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Ben & Dion gave the keynote.

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The second room for sessions was considerably smaller, but still nice.

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Old Palm Pilots and the like.

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A crystal Handspring PDA commemorating their IPO. Handspring was started by the people who started Palm, and Palm purchased them in 2003.

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An award for shipping the original Palm Pilot.

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The lobby had a bunch of blown up WebOS screens. Here's me in front of the Phone app!

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A wider shot of the lobby.

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Two Palm bags (the left one I got for buying stuff at the store, the right is the swag bag) in front of a Palm building. Artistic, no?

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I ended up walking back to the hotel after the mixer. I'm looking down on Hwy 85, I think.

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I walked by this panda antenna ball, and it was so adorable I had to stop and take a picture :-)

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Hooray! Back in Sunnyvale! (it was indeed a long walk)