The 2007 AMD Tech Tour Train Stops in Vancouver
Posted by Stephen on
May 17, 2007
This past Tuesday, The 2007 AMD Tech Tour made a stop in Vancouver. Last year when I was at COMPUTEX, the train rolled in at the wrong time of the year so I couldn’t make it to last years event so I was eager to attend again. The year before, I made out with two Western Digital Raptor Hard Drives so I was hoping to repeat my past performance.
This year’s event was quite a bit smaller than the last year I went. The session for retailers earlier in the day only attracted 40 people. This had our friend Andy, above, host of the AMD Tech Tour for god who knows how long asking, “What’s the Deal?” Even though the size of the venue was nearly a third the size of previous years events, there was still quite a bit of room left. Normally, the event would be packed, but the weak AMD Hardware bundle that everyone always looks forward to really took the incentive out of being there and staying for the long haul.
The Trade Show portion of the show was manned by about a dozen or so manufacturers and suppliers. Some didn’t even show up, like Visiontek.
John Chow was up to his evil ways again, commandeering the empty Visiontek Booth and stealing their T-Shirts. He gave a few out to hungry schwag mongers too, but kept the rest for himself. Not to be outdone, Paul got into a fight for free T-shirts with a deaf guy. Evil spreads. Michael Kwan seemed unaffected by this behaviour, but we found out that he lacked the ability to perform the Asian Squat when dinner seating was at a premium. What’s wrong with you Michael? 
Although I didn’t win any Western Digital Hard Drives this year, I did get a whole bunch of T-Shirts a cool Gigabyte mousepad, and a KingMax 512MB ReadyBoost Flash Drive. I even won an MSI Motherboard. Not too shabby.
Since I get free stuff all the time, it’s time to give some out. Instead of starting with the cheap ass T-Shirts, I’m going to give away something useful. How about I start with the Kingmax 512MB ReadyBoost Flash Drive? The Kingmax Flash Drive is one of the smallest drives I’ve ever seen and plugs into a regular USB slot, leaving a very small footprint. If you want the drive, just comment with a creative reason why I should give it to you. Make me laugh. Simple enough? Now go win it!
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Although it’s only 512MB, I love the tiny Flash drive. It’s so sweet.
My readers come first
Because I’m crippled and need all the free goody love I can get!
I went to AMD’s little tech tour a couple times. Both times we skipped out on the lecture things and hit the pubs. Then we would come back and chat up the vendor reps for free stuff.
I remember those McAfee shirts (it is one right?) The one I got was vacpacked into a cube the size of a McDonalds Hamburger (the one without cheese)
Oh what MSI motherboard is that?
Yeah, it’s a McAffee shirt. The board is an MSI K8NGM2-NBP.
Man, that’s small. “That’s what she said.” oooo wait, that didn’t work to my advantage. If I get the flash drive, I will know how to work it.
Ummm, I never had a flash drive. You’re going to laugh, but I hadn’t touched a computer until 2003, (when I went back to work after child #7)! I didn’t even know how to turn a computer on. Now I have about 15 blogs and 7 Squidoo lenses. I’m a fast learner…
Those shows look like lots of fun. Maybe when my kids get older, I can hit some of the blogger retreats and tech shows in NYC! It gives me something to look forward to…
I saw your URL on my sitemeter, hope you didn’t mind the link love…
Thanks for dropping by. Link love is great
wow 7 kids? impressive!
Forget the flash drive, I want one of those cheap-ass tshirts! After all, I am trying to become an official tshirt whore!
I’ll see what I can do Derek.
You should give it to because Subaru’s rock!
You should give it to me because I like tiny things. I then get to pretend I am a giant and I go around stomping on all the towns people… I got nothing, It’s figging early man!
haha
You should give it to me because when I was a kid we had to walk 20 miles to and from school everyday in 8 feet of snow, it was uphill in both directions and it was so cold that chickens were begging KFC to let them use their pressure cooker, If you wanted to hear what someone said, you had to grab a handful of sentences and take them in to the fire! It was so cold that dogs were wearing cats to keep warm. . .
Sorry, I guess I slipped into a senile rant, must be losing my mind, that would be the main reason to give me the flash drive, I need to backup my mind somewhere.
I would love the flash drive, alas I doubt that I will find much use for it. You see, I weigh over 25 Stone (about 350 pounds), and therefore I am a fat, fat man. I was known as the “Breaker of Chairs” in school, and for good reason. Obese, even. If I were to win, I would have to carry it around with me at some point, and therein lies the problem.
You know when you sit on a sofa, and some coins fall out of your pocket into the sides or between the cushions, and it takes a good amount of effort and time to find the cash again? Yeah, me too.
Since I am an extremely fat person, I have many folds about my person where the flab overflows, perfect for trapping a towel into when you get out of the shower and want to keep your dignity. It does mean, however, that some of those folds don’t see daylight in a good while, and I have found small items in them before, things I thought I had lost for weeks previously.
So, if I won, and got that really tiny flash drive, I may find some use for it, but then again I will almost certainly lose it at some point, despite it remaining on my person. And no-one wants a flash drive that smells, do they?
Yeah,
it`s bad!
Here are the TOP 3 reasons why you should give this usb flash drive to Gdog:
1. I get to see inebriated Koreans puke all over the sidewalks and subway stations…it’s so darn cool because their puke is orange color–due to the consumption of kimchi I’m assuming.
2. If I win this, I’ll dedicate a post to you and give you lots of link love…people always click on my links!
3. I was worried about your blog when it got hacked and posted a comment about it on John’s blog. I don’t know if he called you because of my comment, or if he found out himself. Nevertheless, I tried to draw attention to your blog being down.
BONUS REASON: I could really use that usb flash drive to transfer files to and from work.
That’s it…thanks for the contest.
Forget the USB drive,
I want the quarter!
Wasn’t that funny enough?
Thanks everyone for the entries so far! Some really great ones!
Just in case you guys weren’t aware, for every entry, I’m giving away $1 to charity as well up to $100. Help give to charity by passing the existence of this contest on to others!
I think I should get the Flash drive, because
I lost my 128 MB 2 years ago, and my Nano was stolen in January, so my data transaction has strictly been via Gmail.com
Way to much fun at the show!
Toss it my way and then let’s keep the love going by giving it away again. Maybe we can get this little bad boy to travel the world of bloggers.
If you gave it to me I would give it back away to someone else stipulating that they keep the stamp from the envelope and then do a contest to give it away also.
At the end of the year we can see how many blogs it has been given away on and each of the bloggers hands it touches can then be linked within the final major post.
Maybe it can make its way back to you or the “Mogul” Mr. Evil Chow?
I think I should get that flash drive because, that’s the only thing that you have that is small, and then you’ll give it to me and you won’t own anything small! Male asian cliches are gone! Give it to me!
Thanks everyone for entering. I’ll be choosing the winner shortly! Also, thank you for your generosity in helping out with a donation to charity.
Quick Question-
I an a MS Partner and am registered for the 07 am tech tour.
What ID did they ask for at the door?
I guessing I shoud bring my company badge and expense card, or is this not needed?
Thanks-
Red
I just gave them my business card, but I’m sure a company badge would do.