 So this is the place where Nvidia is putting up all the journalists for the event that I'm attending right now. This is kind of cool. They've actually got live trees growing inside the hotel lobby, which seems like a good idea until you're walking around on the inside of a hotel lobby in its autumn, and there are leaves all over the place. Still, super neat though. Dskill's new Ripjaws 4 series is their ultimate DDR4 memory with speeds of up to 3,333 MHz available. Click now to learn more. So I've been talked into going on a sailboat, something I hadn't really intended to do, but we've got a couple hours to kill, so wish me luck! Alright. Now do a Leonardo DiCaprio! What? Do a Leonardo DiCaprio! I'm the king of the world! Well, they told me I have to sit down up here, but it's definitely a different experience. I think I'm late for the bus. I think we're all supposed to be going to the aquarium or something. Feels kind of like an elementary school field trip. As far as I can tell, this is kind of like the NASCAR of fish. Except we turn to the right, and thus begins the aquarium tour. So this is interesting. We thought we found one that was going against the flow, but apparently they're just all going to turn around now. And I'm sure I'm an idiot for asking this question, but where the hell are they coming from? There must be a trick. I walked up behind this guy kind of going, why are you looking at these tiny little things? They're stupid. And then I noticed that they glow and flash and stuff. Check that out! Freaking cool! Apparently these are sea gooseberries, because gooseberries glow. Alright, now we're talking. No more jellyfish. Now we got like sharks and stuff. And they expect us to pay attention to graphics cards now. Selfie with the shark! Oh, the shark's going that way. Oh, my head's covering it. There we go. Check this out. Look at all these fish on the bottom. You sure don't like that shark much, eh? Oh, here come two more. Here we go. And if my camera could focus, that'd be great. Wow. It's a good thing this isn't a beauty contest to be featured in here. This is the nastiest looking fish. I'm sure it has a heart of gold. It looks like a horror movie. I'm coming for you, Scott. Turtle time now. I heard there was a movie about these. Although they moved a little faster in the movie. Hate to break it to you, dude, but that's a blue wall. Alright, so we're going to go back to the movie. I'm going to go back to the movie. I'm going to go back to the movie. Alright, so I got back to the room and it looks like the hotel finally managed to drop off my care package. So we'll do a short, like, package unboxing, so to speak. Okay. First thing inside is some kind of Nvidia clothing. They're hiring me! Oh, no, I don't think that's what's happening. No, they're just trying to completely take over my wardrobe. So just a little subtle Nvidia thing. Oh, it's pretty nice, actually. Alright, what's next? Ooh. Dun dun dun! Shield wireless controller, a shield tablet cover, and there is the shield tablet, so you get the whole shebang. Tablet, cover, and wireless controller. This is, like, the secret piece of paper with all the embargoed information on it. Hey, it's from Monoprice, look at that. So presumably a cable of some sort. Oh, okay, so that's mini HDMI to HDMI so that you can use console mode. And then we've got, ooh, a name tag. I'm from Linus Tech Tips. Yeah. And finally, a lanyard, which is presumably for the name tag. Not bad. Not a bad haul. Yeah, I make haul videos now or something. That's where you, like, make a video in the haul. But I'm... Alright, so it's the morning of day two, and I would feel and look a lot better if I hadn't stayed up so late reading all the comments on the one million subscriber... awesome celebration video. But, of course, you know, still leave comments. I will read all the comments on that video. They've been very uplifting. Oh, if you haven't already, make sure that you're entered in the giveaway over there, giving away a gaming PC, a Surface. It's gonna be pretty sweet. So now I finally get to go downstairs, and hopefully there's still some breakfast left. They're supposedly serving it for another 20 minutes, so I'll get some breakfast, and then I'll find out why we're actually here. It's presentation time. Alright, so the presentations are over, and it's time to go and play with the demos. So naturally, that would be done in the ballroom. It's kind of like the ball pit, you know, because you play. Look at this guy. Thinks he's allowed to be in my video? I don't even have a signed release from you. I'm not putting you in my video. You don't have a release? Not from you. I wouldn't also have been asked permission from him. Alright, so here is where all the crazy magic new tech is going on. They've got a couple demos from Oculus, as well as presumably some of the stuff they just showed us. So let's go have a look at the demo stations. So today was bananas. Some of the stuff we learned about wasn't really new, but definitely stuff that I didn't have, merely the kind of understanding that I now do. So now it's time to go have dinner on the beach or something like that. So that's pretty cool. And then tomorrow is another full day of presumably more stuff. So I made it to dinner, and we've got the most colorful chairs in the world at what seems to be a pretty cool party. Speaking of cool guys, Scott from the tech report. And I caught him off guard here a little bit, I think. Cool party. Yeah, pretty cool party. We've got some prizes to give away. Prizes, you say? But you need to be here in the sand. Isn't that right, Kelsey? If you want to win anything, you've got to be down here. Maybe I'll try to win something. Now, I was told... This guy is like the one man party here. I was told in video that there are some real athletes here. Am I right? Oh, Lord. Oh, no. Oh, yeah, baby. Alright, look at the hay. Do you want to film me if I go? Sure, sure, sure. It's already on. It's going, right? Yeah, yeah, it's on. And I've got a loud mic on. Alright, alright. Thanks. Duh. These are the rules. Apparently, I'm an idiot. So, guys, with the hula hoops, your job is to make these guys vote for you. Oh, wow. So you've got to do something funny that's going to separate yourself from the rest of the crowd. Get it anywhere you want. Okay, my turn. Okay, alright, alright. Can I hula hoop at all? No. No, I can try. I mean, if you just kind of go wide enough... Well, that's okay with me. I dig Canadians, dude. Anyway, judges, what do you think about the big man, Linus, working hard? I got you in there, brother. You're the final man. Are these our final three? I think the final ones, we have to do it again. Hey, wait, there was somebody else. Put everything you got into it, okay? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Put it on your... Oh, stop on me now. Go out. Oh, yeah, baby. Come on, you got about 15... No! Pour it on, baby. What about this guy from Canada, everybody? Okay, let's get the guy from Canada right here. Kelly, you come on out here, too. We're going to have a clap-off here. What do you think about Kelly? What do we think about the dude from Canada? If I twerk, will more of you vote for me? Dude, I thought you were awesome, but it's Kelly and this guy. Awesome job. I'm glad they didn't say yes. Chin up now, chin up. Looking good, guys. Are you ready for this Korean dance? Limbo, limbo. Did he say Korean? I don't f***ing know. Shroud, I think you're at a bit of a disadvantage. I actually just walk right under this. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Down, down low. Feel good. All right, Jens. Nice job, Kelly. Nice job, Charlie. Oh, my God. Limbo with the pink. Bob, make some noise for her. Low, you're good. And we're going to let you go again. We're going to let you go. Uh-oh, we got another guy down. All right, you get another chin. He didn't spill a drop. Scream and make some noise. Oh. Slide the chin, bite me up. Come on, guys, make a little noise. Come on, Kelly, we're behind you. Come on, Kelly. We're not behind you. Very, oh. Come on up here, bro, and get a lay from me. All right, you ready? Guy in the blue shirt, we're behind you. Oh, ouch. Took the whole thing down. Help them out. Whoa, limber little fella. Dang. What's happening? He's putting it too close to him. He might come back on you. Oh. Come on, Jen, you can do this. You can do it. You got it, you got it. Hop, hop, hop. Oh. One more chance, one more chance, good job. Oh, my God. If this is good or not, because you got a better vantage point than me. Whoa, he stuck it. Very nice. Very, very nice. Nice job, brother. Okay, help him out, everybody. Oh. Dang. Is that number two, bro? Nice job, man. Nice. Help her out. Help her out. She's going down. You can't hold the stick, man. Okay, if he makes it, he is our champion. He is our champion. Okay. Come on now, guys, we all got to help him out a little bit. Make some noise. Oh. Oh, God. Come on. Oh, he's down. He is down. She gets one last try. Help her out, everybody. Come on, Jen. You can do it. She's down. I think we got a champion. Can I try one more time? You can try it one more time. All right. All right. But I think you got it. Hello, can you go? No. All right, well, that was totally worth the humiliation. This is my prize. Ladies and gentlemen, can we have another round of applause for our great stick holders? Fantastic stick holders. Those are all yours to keep, brothers. So the beer pong, we got kicked out of the hall here, and evidently it's just been set up outside because that's a sensible thing. Thank you for that. So this is the plan now. The table in the middle of the sand. All right, so it's the last day of the trip, and we're going to be doing kayaking soon. I had the second day of briefing that, of course, I can't say anything about at all, and I'm just trying to get some sunscreens. I'm at the Walgreens here, and... Huh, okay. Well, apparently this is not a store entrance, so it's time to go on an epic journey. So an interesting thing I realized while I was here is that I've been calling, I'm assuming I've been calling the cheese wrong all this time. I call it Monterey Jack, and I think it must be Monterey, because everyone here pronounces it that way. The soldiers were making fun of me for vlogging. I was going to tell them off, but they're soldiers, so I didn't. You know, back when it was film, I can see why one-hour photo was impressive, but now that they're just printing them, it's a resilient achievement. So I'm looking for SPF 50, and there's not a whole lot of options. There's a lot of spray-on ones. There's a lot of, like, for babies and for kids, and then there's, like, this one for $13, or I can buy Hello Kitty for $9. I got one of those left, and I think that's what we're doing. And now I'm running late. Of course, I'm vlogging about it. I forgot my credit card, so I had to go back again for my Hello Kitty sunscreen directions. I don't know, this is great. Ingredients, there's, like, two things in it. Purpose, sunscreen. Love it. Just in case I didn't know that. Purpose, sunscreen. So I'm on the bus, and we've got some interesting characters here with me. Did you forget we were going somewhere? No, I'm going to the water! Yeah. I think the only thing geekier than a bunch of computer geeks is a bunch of computer geeks in, like... Wood-sail. Yeah. Nice, also some nice sunscreen application technique you've got going on, Edmitri. Yeah, well, it's better than what you've got going on. I don't know what I have, but... Alright, so here we are. I've been informed that I'm going in a double boat. They gave us the lesson on how to operate the paddle. Evidently, you want it to go with the flat side into the water, not the other side. So I think I can handle that, but the part about not leaning out of the boat, I think I might have a little bit of trouble with that, so we'll see how this goes. We've been instructed to hold on to the kelp to stay still. The water comes up because the surface water is moving up here. And we get really cold, frigid water. So right now our water temperature has warmed up. But that cold, frigid water feeds the kelp, all the nutrients. So with the summer, this giant kelp will grow. Wow. So this kelp only grows on rocks. Because we have rocks and kelp, we have tons of kelp and rockfish over 50 different species. Hey, look at that, we found a sea otter. You're not allowed to go within 50 feet of them, so this is, I think, about it. But he's over there. I've been assured that he's over there. My boat's turning in the wind. All right. We're drifting pretty good here. Okay, camera goes off. Well, evidently, these are not naturally white rocks. Those are hoop rocks. Fantastic. There are some harbor seals way out there. Can't get too close, though. Apparently, if they come near you, it's okay. And there's a couple guys right here. I don't think you're going to be able to pick them up on camera. I kind of see his head there. Cool. So my excursion ran a little longer than I had kind of sort of thought about or expected. So I'm out on a kayak. I book it back to the dock. My tandem kayak partner has to come in, help me get out of the boat, and he goes out on his own. And I run back to the hotel, and right as I arrive, they've sorted it out and found me a new flight. So I'm not in a hurry at all. So I guess the good news is now I get to have a shower before the flight. All right, so my skin's still wet, but that's on account of having just showered, not actually being sweaty. But I have a philosophical dilemma for you guys. What is cleaner? The pants that I have already worn for two days or the pants that I've only been wearing since this morning, but that I was just running in. Okay, I'm making the decision even more difficult. I removed my belt and all the things from my pockets and didn't mark which one is which. So now it's just a crapshoot. A new piece of information in pants dilemma, in the great pants dilemma of 2014. These are the ones from the other couple days. Oh, maybe it's these ones, whichever ones have a bunch of sand in the pockets from the hula contest are the ones from the other day. So now I have to decide somewhat damp, but obviously not damp enough. I could tell the difference between them, but no sand in the pockets to get into, you know, places. I think I'm going to go with the wet ones with no sand. Yeah, we have a decision. All right, so this is it, the end of the trip. I actually had intended to shoot my last bit not on my phone, but on the camera instead. But I realized as I was going through airport security that I had my lavalier mic in my shirt. I'm like wired up with this thing. I was like, oh crap, this looks weird. So I quickly threw it off. I'm not going to put that back on the airport. So that's it. I hope you guys enjoyed this travel blog and I hope you're looking forward to whatever it is I was doing here.