Speaking of being there, here’s me at the event set up next to the Corsair rig within the Intel booth. We’ve had a LOT of people come check out the booth and of course it feels good to show off my hard work in person to people. No one even raises an eyebrow when I tell them that between 8-10 hours goes into a machine like the Dream Machine.

Me again with the Dream Machine and a lot of the swag that Corsair showed up with. They’ve actually got Corsair branded energy drinks, which have been a big hit along with the Intel chair pillows.

Thankfully our Intel guy, Ross, was kind enough to provide me with one of these. The chairs here look okay at first, but you sit down for a while on one and it starts to be not fun.

Now when I arrived I was very confused to see all of the staff with pink hair. My natural assumption was that they wanted to be highly visible in case people needed help. Actually it’s in support of the Weekend to End Breast Cancer. At 4pm on Friday they brought out the shavers, and every one of the staff members shaved his head.

nVidia also generously offered $1000 per shaved head in addition to the staff members up to $10,000. This Tech Tips host was very impressed and decided to do his part by getting his head shaved too. I didn’t clear it with the girlfriend, so we’ll see how that conversation goes when I get home. :p

Here’s everyone who went bald all together. Thanks to everyone here (including the girl who paid $160 to shave the event organizer’s (Gil’s) head, Fragapalooza raised more than $15,000 for breast cancer research. God knows a bunch of guys like us want to preserve as many breasts in this world as we can.

There have been other neat events like a wall sit for an nVidia video card. I’ll be covering that in an upcoming Tech Tips. Apparently there is also a dance-off today and you can bet there’ll be some good footage from that. Stay tuned!

It arrived safely via UPS and so did all of my other gear. The one thing that didn’t show up was my NCIX banner… Fortunately I have lots of NCIX enviro bags, so there should be plenty of NCIX representation around the show.

The venue is huge. I can’t even capture it properly with my G7, but this LAN is unlike anything I’ve seen before in Vancouver.

Here’s on of the Corsair guys gaming it up (with coaching from one of the kind LAN-goers) with Crysis on this crazy quad SLI system.

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this. A Mac at a LAN party? It’s one of two that are here and the other is a notebook.

Here’s me with “FPS Doug” from Pure Pwnage. He was giving out signed posters. I got one that reads “Boom! Headshot!”. It’s awesome.

Well it looks like I’ll be attending Fragapalooza as an NCIX representative. I’m going to bring along the Tech Tips camera so if you’re wanting to make a guest appearance to show off a talent on Tech Tips and you’re going to be at Fragapalooza, let me know and I’ll see what I can do.