While attending SANS 1997, I shot many pictures with my digital camera. Since you've come this far, I can only assume that you've got all the time in the world to waste looking at them, so here they are!
I apologize in advance that there are so many pictures on this page and that it will take forever to load. You may have all the time in the world to view it, but I don't have that much time to put it together...
(B&W thumbnails are links to full-sized color photos.)
I arrived on a Sunday, and the weather was truly fabulous. Inner Harbor is probably the most gorgeous piece of a city that I've ever seen. The hotel that I stayed at was about a half block off of the water, and had a walkway on the second story across the street to a shopping center. I had dinner in the Pizzaria Uno in the mall, where I had the largest bottle of Beck's Dark that I've ever seen. Next to it is my Apple Newton MessagePad 2000, which was my only computer on the trip with me.
Of course, you can't go to a fancy hotel without ordering room service at least once. The first morning that I was there, I decided that I was having breakfast in my room, and enjoyed it immensely. (There's a bagel under the napkin.) The presentation of the meal certainly matched the decor of the room.
My room looked out over the harbor itself, to the teeny mall where I ate the night before.
This fabulous kimono was hanging between the elevators on the first floor of the hotel.
The blocks surrounding the hotel were also well landscaped. The building in the second and third pictures has a neon light in its tower, which made for a fabulous effect at night. The fifth picture shows another impressive building, which gleamed furiously at sunset.
While wandering around, I found an internet cafe and decided that I'd stop in and see just how silly it was. The decor was, like everything else in the neighborhood, elegant. The soda in the fifth picture was so funny that I had to take a picture of it.
The machines that the cafe had for rent were running Windows NT. While there, Gregory (whom I met at the conference and became fast friends with) and I managed to crash the NT machine without even trying. Being computer professionals, we felt vindicated.
The menu and facade of the cafe.
Next, we went to the American Visonary Art Museum. Unfortunately, pictures aren't allowed inside the museum.
Then on to the Maryland Science Center...
And then a game at Oriole Park.
