It's Not a CES without Linux... and Elvis
Well Linux campers, it's early January, which must mean it's time for that annual orgy of consumer techno-porn called the Consumer Electronics Show. (For normal, everyday porn, you have to walk a few feet down the Sands Expo Center to the Adult Video News show...) And just as the swallows return to Capistrano each spring, and politicians to New Hampshire the day after the mid-terms, it was time for me to board that Southwest jet and head on out to the land of milk and honey shrimp and money to see what the future holds for Linux in the new year, at least in the consumer space. As well as hunting for Linux among the set-tops, I'll also try to give you my own unique and twisted spin on the madness that descends on Vegas during CES.
This is the earliest I've ever arrived at CES, the show floor doesn't open until Monday morning and I was on the ground in Vegas on noon, Saturday. Of course, that meant getting up at 5 AM east-coast time to make my flight, which in my opinion is an Unnatural and Perverted Hour to be up (unless you haven't gone to bed yet, in which case it's fine, just fine.) The flight was uneventful, but I already knew that the Gods of Irony were well at work. Normally, CES is a relatively warm escape from the cruel New England winters I endure in New Hampshire. But this is is totally whacked, weather-wise. Forecasted high in Las Vegas for Saturday, 52. Forecasted high in Manchester? 70 freaking degrees!
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