But that's the way it is at DICE. You literally run into Will Wright, Lorne Lanning, Sid Meier, David Jaffe, Greg Zeschuk. Ryan ran into Greg in the first twenty minutes of the conference, in the men's room. "Oh hey," says Ryan. "Hi," says Greg. "By the way," Greg adds, "Ray [Muzyka] won the celebrity poker tournament last night." ZIP!

It's enough to make you feel giddy.

We got a lot of material for the 1UP Show, great interviews with Warren Spector, with Ray and Greg, who talked about what an elegant game poker is (it was really all I could do not to go fangirl on them about KOTOR, NWN, Baldur's Gate, and so on).

We had maybe the craziest interview I've ever had with anyone...with David Jaffe. It was the last day, I think we were all low on sleep, and the interview spanned such topics as message boards, cunnilingus (blame my colleague Shane for that one), gross-out candy, and how much the technology of 1UP.com sucks. (Well, it does - we all know it's slow as shit.) By the end David had to run and I felt like I'd been hit by a bus. What the hell just happened? I don't know if we can use any of it but it was surely an experience. You'll see on the next 1UP show.

And now it's Saturday morning, almost noon; I've slept for ten hours but I still feel like I could use a nap!