On the third day other SegaSoft employees started showing up.
Also, we again had finished all of our work pretty early and had
little else to do so we took a side trip to the nearby Six
Flags amusement park.
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Here we see some of the Nexus folks setting up two machines
for running their new build of Vigilance. Phil seems
especially pleased with how things look.
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This is also when Charles Eads of PostLinear fame arrived
on the scene to begin checking the setup on the 10six
machines.
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Jennifer at the 2nd line of defenese desk whilst Jeff in
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From behind the 1st line of defense desk we look out in to
the HEAT ring of the SegaSoft booth. In the foreground to
our left we can see two of the Art Guild members.
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Here we see Jeff showing a security guard the finer
subtleties of how to quickly and efficiently fold several
thousand HEAT boxes from their flat form to the finished
product you can see stacked up behind them.
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Here we see Peto making sure this machine inside the HEAT
ring functions properly when you are trying to blaster-kill
everyone in Quake 2. We believe that Peto reported a number
of successes with blaster-only kills against better armed
and armored opponents.
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Finally we make a quick break for lunch. We have no images
of where we ate lunch several times but for the curious we
went over to the CNN center and had lunch at "Jock and
Jill's" sports bar several times. The food here was quite
good and the unsweetened ice tea was quite popular. Well,
popular with pretty much everyone except for Kaylin, who is
weird anyways.
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Here we get to see Larry expressing himself as we all head
up the 2nd level of escalators. This group of folks
included the setup people, Jessica from MPATH again, the
Nexus people and PostLinear people.
The next day Peto, Lamont, Jessica, and I decided to go to
the "Reggie's British pub" that was in the CNN center near
"Jock and Jill's" but we have to say the experience there
was far less than stellar and we would have been better
suited going to "Jock and Jill's" again.
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Heeey... wait a second... this does not
look like the Georgia World Congress Center. My, you are
observant. Yeah, on Tuesday after we had done what little
set up we thought we had left to do some of us had been
wanting to travel to the nearby Six Flags
and get in a little recreation time. We had been told
that the Six Flags would be open until
11pm but when we got there at around 5pm we found that it
was going to close at 8pm. We only had three hours to make
the most of our trip out to this place.
Luckily, we are as efficient as determining what course to
take through an amusement park when time is tight as we
are at setting up forty some odd pc's in two days and we
made the most of our time hitting six roller coasters.
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Ah, the first coaster of the day! Good thing you can not
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This roller coaster is called the Viper. At the Six Flags up
here in the SFBA the equivalent is called "The Tidal Wave."
All of went on it once. The people whose stomaches were in
better shape went on it again.
This photo is from the second trip on The Viper. If you
look very closely the last car contains Lamont and Jessica.
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And here the intrepid double-timers return from their second
ride on The Viper. You can see that they are truly working
hard for the company on this trip.
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Here Lamont and Jessica are standing in line for the
number one seat on the Great American Scream roller
coaster. Peto and Scanner traded places with them shortly
after this image was taken because they had to be back
upstairs in time for their swing ride which we will be
getting to in a couple of frames.
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And here are our intrepid explorers Lamont, Ted, and
Jessica returning from what turned out to be the bumpiest
roller coaster on the field. This roller coaster has no ups
and overs. It is one very long "L" shaped coaster with a
bunch of humps. It is, as mentioned above, extremely rough
and bumpy. I suspect Peto got the bruise on his leg from
this coaster.
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Okay, so here is probably the high point of Ted, Jessica,
and Lamont's Six Flags Over Georgia Experience. They have
this ride at Six Flags here in the SFBA, and they also have
it at Six Flags Magic Mountain down near LA. It may be
universal at all Six Flags by now.
The ride is quite simple. It is just a huge swing on which
they can strap up to three individuals.
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The next sequence of six photos show Lamont, Ted, and
Jessica, after paying their dues getting strapped in to
the swing harness and raised way way way above ground.
Lamont on the left side is the one who had the rip cord
you are supposed to pull to release you.
Luckily we were able to snap several shots of these people
of daring do before they were finally brought down to
earth. Just think what would have happend to MPATH and
SegaSoft if that cable had snapped?
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And here they are reaching the bottom of their first
swing. They get a lot more excited as they reach the top of
this swing.
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Here they are ramping up for their second swing up. You can
tell that at least ted is thoroughly enjoying it, even if it
looks like he has his eyes shut and has locked his face in
to a fierce grin. Lamont has to be sucking bugs in and
loving it. Unfortunately with Ted's meaty arm blocking
Jessica's face we do not get to see what her emotional state
is at this time.
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Here the top most point of their swing has been reduced
greatly and they are just sort of mildly swishing around
now. The ride does let you down gently, we have to say.
At the end of the ride when our adventurers return to the
Earth Lamont is ecstatic, Ted can only give a thumbs up.
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Ah, back to the more mundane - Jessica and Lamont calmly
await their turn on "Batman, The Ride."
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Here Ted, Peto and Lamont calmly await the horror of the
funnel-cake experience unawares of what is in store for them.
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And here Lamont is a couple of minutes later... still calmly
waiting for the funnel-cakes to arrive. If only he knew what
they would be like.
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Finally they arrive! It seems that there was a big rush
to get funnel cakes right before the park closed. It also
seems that the funnel cake cooks were anxious to use up all
the batter they had so our cakes were much larger than
usual.
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Dig in everyone! Enjoy what you can while you can! Actually,
they were not that bad. There was just a lot of them, we
were hot, and thirsty and had nothing to drink.
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MARTA - we came to
enjoy that service greatly. Here we are on the last bus back
to the Marta train station throughly convincing ourselves
that today had been a good day, even though we were only at
Six Flags for about three hours.
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After a day like that would could we do for supper? Lamont
had never been to a benihana before and there was one right
by the hotel, and it was even open long enough for us to get
seated. So, we went there. Lamont got to enjoy his second
day of scallops.
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