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January 11, 2011

c.e.s. postscript: “intel processors are smaller than a postage stamp. intel has 80,000 employees. how do you fit so many people into an object so tiny? that’s what amazes me.”

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[Alan Wein­kranz- an old Texas con­nec­tion of mine– and myself at CES last Satur­day etc.]

“Intel Pro­ces­sors are sma­ller than a pos­tage stamp. Intel has 80,000 emplo­yees. How do you fit so many peo­ple into an object so tiny? That’s what ama­zes me.”

I am wri­ting this from home in Miami Beach, a day after retur­ning from the Con­su­mer Elec­tro­nic Show in Vegas. Here are some notes:

1. CES is big. Very, very big. We’re tal­king roughly TEN times the size of SXSW Inte­rac­tive. To give you a sense of just how big CES is, my friend, Robert Sco­ble wal­ked through the entire CES venue with a video camera run­ning the who time. It took him 45 minu­tes just to get from one end to the other [I make a brief cameo appea­rance about 16’30″ into it].

2. Alan Wein­kranz also made videos at CES. Here’s one he did of me. Excuse the sound qua­lity etc:

3. My time at CES was spent pretty much exc­lu­si­vely at the Intel stand, sig­ning prints. It was great. Just… great. I tur­ned up in Vegas with over 500 of them. By day three we had run out. We took a lot of pic­tu­res– a cou­ple of hun­dred of them. You can see them on Flickr here.

4. Intel was at CES, of course, to intro­duce their new 2nd Gene­ra­tion Intel® Core™ pro­ces­sor. It’s sma­ller than a pos­tage stamp. Intel has 80,000 emplo­yees. How do you fit so many peo­ple into an object so tiny? That’s what ama­zes me. That’s what I kept thin­king about the whole time I was there. We live in inc­re­di­ble times…

5. Yes, I’m exhaus­ted. Yes, I’m  a wreck. Yes, it was worth it. Intel was an fabu­lous client. A spe­cial thanks to Mar­cia Han­sen for get­ting me involved.

4 Responses to “c.e.s. postscript: “intel processors are smaller than a postage stamp. intel has 80,000 employees. how do you fit so many people into an object so tiny? that’s what amazes me.””

1. tonyhei says:

   January 11, 2011 at 6:41 PM

   You losing some of the old weight there, huh Hugh?

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2. Maddison says:

   January 11, 2011 at 6:42 PM

   Wow Hugh, you are loo­king good these days. What a trans­for­ma­tion. This is coming from a woman who loves the com­pany of women, not that it mat­ters, lol. Keep doing what you’re doing, it is so good for you.

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3. Alan Weinkrantz says:

   January 12, 2011 at 3:58 PM

   Hugh, thanks for inc­lu­ding my video on your site. I look for­ward to seeing you again at SXSW. Your work inspires!

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4. JP says:

   January 13, 2011 at 1:04 AM

   Al this tech­no­logy, and there you are are with a shar­pie. I love that. Thanks for the inspiration!

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