REAL World 2008: The Events

Posted by paul on Mar 24, 2008 in Uncategorized | 3 comments

On Wednesday night, everyone walked down to the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema for a somewhat strange event, at least for me. This place is a movie theatre that serves food and comedy all while showing a movie. I told you it was strange.

The movie was the 80′s classic Back to the Future. The comedy was 3 fellows commenting and generally making fun of it in the same vein as the old show Mystery Science Theatre 3000.

Their comments during the movie were gut-busting funny. I laughed a lot. They did a live comedy bit as an intermission in the middle of the movie, but I just it found to be more strange than funny. What was that little guy continuously jumping up and down?

The food was OK and nothing to write home about. Although they did have some organic root beer from Maine, which I had to try. It was quite good, but who knew that Maine exported root beer? Especially to Texas?

I can’t say I liked this event all that much. It’s kind of hard to talk with other conference-goers during a movie so it didn’t make for a good networking event.

Thursday night was the 2nd annual dinner and trivia contest held at the Omni. The Omni prepares absolutely wonderful food and this was no exception. The trivia content involved answering odd pop-culture questions. It might have been cooler if the questions were all REALbasic-related. But then I’m a geek…

I didn’t win anything My question was “What was the 8th and final fight club rule in Fight Club“. I have never seen fight club so I had no idea.

Prizes included REALbasic books, shirts, store discounts and some other things. A lot of people won and everyone seemed to have a great time.

Other Posts about REAL World 2008

REAL World 2008: The Sessions

REAL World 2008: The Keynote

REAL World 2008: Day 0