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Vote for the Autodesk University 2008 Sessions this year

We're doing something new this year—we would like you to help us select the best 500-plus sessions. 

We have uploaded all of the sessions (that were submitted by the deadline) to AU 2008 Session site and we need your input. Topics are organized under 19 tracks, which are either an industry or a product.  If you are considering attending AU, please take a few minutes to vote for sessions that you absolutely want to see.
Over the next few weeks, we will review all those submissions and whittle them down to the number we can actually physically accommodate in the Venetian Conference Center in Las Vegas.

Registration for AU will start on August 15th, and one week earlier for AU members.  Class schedules will be available for review by August 1st.
Thank you in advance for helping us select the most interesting classes. The deadline for voting is Saturday, May 3, 2008

Link to Class Voting

Autodesk University 2008 - Last Call for Presenters

The Autodesk University User Conference and Exhibition (AU) is Autodesk's premier annual event. AU is all about empowering professionals with training, resources, and contacts to help them realize their best ideas.

Attendees are seeking Autodesk and partner solutions that will help them align their careers and their organizations for success in today's fast-changing industries.

After another record-breaking event in 2007, AU is returning to Las Vegas, where our venue will again be the Venetian Resort Hotel—one of the world's finest meeting and convention facilities.

Going into our 16th year, we look forward to offering a terrific curriculum of courses presented by outstanding speakers.

Two words:

submissions deadline

If you’re considering joining our outstanding slate of speakers at Autodesk University 2008, you’ll have to act by April 27, 2008.

Please submit your presentation proposal(s) online, as soon as possible, at the Call for Papers website.

Whenever we stop to analyze why Autodesk University has become so hugely successful, one thing is clear: the excellent presentations from experts  are a big, big factor.

The time for us to assemble the AU 2008 faculty, who are without a doubt the most critical component of the overall AU experience, is nearly over. So if you:

• Have the communication skills, technical expertise, and relevant experience….

• Want to share your knowledge of a favorite topic—from tips and tricks and sales techniques to new business opportunities such as sustainable design….

• Are motivated to bring success to design professionals and their organizations….

• Want to demonstrate your expertise to several thousand Autodesk customers, partners, and employees, thereby promoting your business success….

… Then we want to hear from you—now!

A speaker honorarium is also provided.

The Matt Murphy Clay Head Poses with Jay Leno Lastnight

Jay Leno and the infamous Matt Murphy Clay Head Sculpture from Autodesk University 2007 made a Hollywood style appearance at Jay Leno's car garage http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/ on its travels around the world. They use Autodesk products at Jay's Garage and have one of the largest private collections of amazing cars and car experts. I was there with Marie Domingo of Autodesk providing some update tips and tricks for new AutoCAD 2009 and shot with the garage staff for an upcoming Jay's Garage segment on AutoCAD.

The clay head is planning on being at Autodesk University 2008 in Vegas! www.autodesk.com/au

AutoCAD Wish List Ballot Results for February 2008

AUGI (Autodesk Users Groups International) has now posted the results of the February 2008 wish list voting cycle for AutoCAD. There are some good ones in there and we appreciate all the submissions. Everyone should get involved in AUGI as it is free, many benefits, tens of thousands of your peers, and you get to enter your wish list items and vote on them in 3 cycles a year. The top ten voted wishes for the year are presented to Autodesk at Autodesk University to work on them. We at Autodesk also grab from the other wish list submissions as well.
The key to success is making sure the customers are heard and we do our very best to implement all the wishes into the products we can.

<drum roll>
Top Ten voted AutoCAD Wish Item AUGI members were:

1. Samuel Flores
2. Paul Westhelle
3. Chris Lindner
4. Clinton Campbell
5. Paul Eyden
6. Michael Shick
7. Yair Yes
8. Brad Sanada
9. Chris Payne
10. Steven Hill

Thank you AUGI,
                          Your Wish is Our Command! </drum roll>

 

AutoCAD Wish List Ballot Results February 2008

"Presented below are the Top 10 wishes from the AutoCAD Wish List, February 2008 voting cycle:

1. Convert PDF to DWG Submitted by Samuel Flores
2. Solid Hatch Opacity Setting Submitted by Paul Westhelle
3. Lock the Scale of a Viewport While Allowing Panning Submitted by Chris Lindner
4. Command to Send all Hatches to Back Submitted by Clinton Campbell
5. Compare Two Drawings Submitted by Paul Eyden
6. Text Wrap in Dimensions Submitted by Michael Shick
7. Lock Drawing order of Specific Objects Submitted by Yair Yes
8. Autocreate Dynamic Blocks from Existing Blocks Submitted by Brad Sanada
9. Attach and Overlay Options for Images Submitted by Chris Payne
10. Option to Print to Multiple Devices or Formats at One Time Submitted by Steven Hill

You can continue to submit new wishes to the AutoCAD Wish List by filling out the AutoCAD Wish List Submission Form.

To see the results from all past voting cycles, visit the AutoCAD Wish List Voting Results page."

Now I have to do my last minute packing as I am headed down to Burbank California to provide some training and warped humor to some very well known people from Hollywood in less than an hour. I like to pack at the last minute, not sure why but it always seems to end up like that.

Cheers,
Shaan

AUGI HotNews - March 2008, No. 58 - AEC Edition Is Out!

Lots of great articles in this latest version and all for free just like AUGI membership and all the perks.

AUGI HotNews - March 15th, 2008

Some of the excellent articles:

The Price of "Free"
Studies have shown that people value what they pay for. But how do you reconcile that with the "free" nature of the Internet? Chris Lindner, AUGI President, ponders this in relation to AUGI.

Autodesk University 2008: Share Your Expertise

TIPniques: Design Review
Brian Benton reviews Autodesk's Design Review, a free, stand-alone product that can open, view, print, markup, and compare DWF files, and a lot more.

Your Toughest Users, Part 1
Every CAD manager must work with people. And sometimes, that's quite a challenge. Author Mark Kiker identifies some classic "troublesome" workers and offers advice on how to handle them.

AUGI CAD Camp - 2008 Events
The Spring/Summer AUGI CAD Camp schedule is set. Find out when this unique learning and networking event will come to your area.

AutoCAD 2008 Tips and Tricks by Lynn Allen

Local Flavor: Portland Revit User Group
Local Flavor interviews board members of the Portland Revit User Group. Here's what they do to engage local users and keep them coming back.

Autodesk University 2007: General Session Behind the Scenes Video

Here is a quick video clip recorded behind the scenes of the general session where 7600 attendees (room limit) were to attend the following day. I grabbed two of the main people for quick comments on what was driving the general session as they were in final countdown mode and had thousands of feet of cable, many developers, high end machines and technology to drive the HD Projectors to 20 - 20 foot tall HD screens for an immersive presentation.

7600 AU attendees would either be impressed or bear witness to one very huge technical problem in 360 degrees around them and in HD no less. Luckily they pulled it off, so well in fact a few people complained that the live Metropolis 3D environment that bathed attendees in a 3D World down to a city with BIM models and categorized trees made them motion sick when it was demonstrated live. If I could have only snuck in and played an Xbox on the 360 degree surrounding HD screens...ahhhh now that would be awesome. Can you imagine using this as your desktop just to check email or to impress geek friends?

I only had a brief moment with Jonathan Knowles and Brian Mathews of Autodesk for this impromptu behind the scenes tour that literally blew me away and reduced me to giddy geek on a HD cloud immersed in a 3D world of pure pixel-icious pleasure. This was even better than being onstage the year before in front of 4000 people with the Blue Man Group, and I did not get any blue makeup on me this time.

I can't wait to see what they will do next year to top this, perhaps teleport me to another planet or time? They better get that project going faster to make AU 2008. :-)

Helge Brettschneider of WWW.MCDCAD.DE videotaped this as well as more video segments to be posted later.

I am no Oprah when it comes to interviewing, but it sure was fun.

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Made it Home, Now off to South America

I made it back to Utah and am now packing for travel to Brazil tomorrow. The drive yesterday took twice as long as I hit heavy snow and fog making for a interesting long drive. I have the Matt Murphy Clay Head Sculpture in my possession but have not determined if I will take the clay head with me as it would suffer a terrible meltdown in the heat and humidity. I did get a photo of it in a few locations on the way home like the Mojave desert, Zion National Park, and as a head on a snowman in Meadow Utah. I think I will place it in storage for safe keeping and take it to AU 2008 in Vegas next year.

Look at my Flickr gallery from AU 2007 and soon photos from Brazil and Peru. You an also share your AU 2007 photos in the free AU 2007 pool group pool. I hope everyone made it home safe and sound and kept the knowledge gained and business cards from those they met.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/btl/

Autodesk University 2007 (Pool)

Cheers,
Shaan

AutoCAD Turns 25

For those that did not see it at AU or in their mailbox I was placed on the cover of the current November 2007 AUGIWorld Magazine with an interview about Autodesk\AutoCAD history over the past 25 years in the issue. Some AU attendees even came and got the issue autographed although I am not sure if they were just having fun and goofing.

 

You can read the issue online in electronic format at the following link.
AUGI World electronic November 2007 Issue

 

 

Cheers,
Shaan

Scott Sheppard of Autodesk Labs - Now and Back from the 80s

I cant believe Scott was brave enough to blog a photo of himself from the eighties but he was motivated to do so after photos of Lynn Allen were posted from AU 2007. He asked what I was like in the eighties, "uhhh rock on dewd, where's my hair brush".

Humor: A Blast from the Past

Scott from the in the rockin 80s

Umm not sure who this guy below is...

I am now just getting ready to leave Las Vegas and head North where it is currently slowing which will slow my drive from around 6 hours to perhaps as long as 10 hours but I have a good co-pilot the Matt Murphy Clay Head Sculpture to navigate the weather.

Cheers,
Shaan

AU 2007 - Friday Goodbye AU 2007, Start Planning for AU 2008

Thursday Night AU 80s themed party was HUGE and a blast. There were so many people, food , beverages, old 80s video games, pool tables, activities, 2 comedians, 1 chain saw juggler, and the band Tainted Love. After the party I went out with coworkers and customers to Tao upper floor which was a really cool place then for breakfast for the annual chicken and waffles with maple syrup at the Grand Lux located in the Venetian.

Autodesk University 2007 came to a final end today after the largest attendance of around and it could be a coincidence but when AU ended it got very cold, clouds covered the sky, and rain started here in Las Vegas.

 

Nice BLAUGI Blog post of AU 2007 related blog postings.:

What bloggers have had to say about AU 2007 so far

What bloggers have had to say about AU 2007 so far, Part II

Other AU 2007 blog post highlights:

• AU 2007 Day 3: Autodesk Labs Has the Neatest Technology
• AU 2007 Day 1, Main Keynote
• AU 2007, Extensive Blog Coverage
• Assis from AUGI Brazil celebrates his birthday at AU 2007
• Autodesk University - Day Two
• AU 2007 - Day One - Autodesk, in 360°
• Autodesk University 2007 - Day One
• Helpful and useful information for those attending Autodesk University 2007
• The Making of the General Session
• RobiNZ @ Autodesk University 2007 - "Designing the Future"
• Multi-Touch
• Exhibit hall craziness
• AU Video Booth -- Fun Things Come in Small Packages
• Autodesk University - Day Three

A few of my highlight moments:

   
   

• The clay modeling submissions and conversations about the Autodesk 25 year memorabilia at the Autodesk MyFeedback booth.
• Lynn chasing me around the event floor after the comedian used my photos to joke about Lynn's hair over the past.
• Luciana, Assis coming from Brazil and Luciana being out of Brazil for the first time and Vegas no less must be overwhelming and paint a inaccurate view of what the United States is like.
• Laughing till I cried with the group at La Scena when discussing the weird infomercial's being shown on the hotel TV channel 5.
• Not answering my wake up call and security showing up at my door to make sure I was fine. My phone did not ring as it was on the wrong line.
• My Blackberry getting fried and not working much of the time although Martyn Day also suffered a similar problem when he lost the navigation ball on his Blackberry.
• The Venetian club Tao and the upstairs environment and view down the strip.
• Being on a panel during Yoshi Hondas CAD Management Town Hall with such esteemed co panelists including David Harrington, Tom Conti, Jamie Casile, Daniel Herbert, Danny Counts, Veronica Lamb, and even the infamous Matt Murphy Clay Head Sculpture sat on the panel in front of the attendees but never answered a single question.
• Stan running into me with the scooter.
• The AUGI Top DAUG Competition
• The 360 degree high definition system during the keynote and showing of code name Metropolis. I sure whish I could have that system for gaming. ;-)
• Jeff Jeff Kowalski Autodesk CTO and his presentation keynote as it was cool and his presentation style was reminiscent of a smooth Steve Jobs.
• Lynn Allen's picture from the 1980s that she showed to over 7000 people.
• Having my face and interview on the AUGIWorld Magazine cover.

I head back to Utah tomorrow morning then to Brazil on Monday for CAD Camp and then onto Peru for some Amazon jungle trekking and photos. I need to also get my voice back and caught up on email, pack, and process and backup photos.

I want to say thank you for all who attended Autodesk University as well as those vital to its success, fun, great social networking, conversation, laughing, and the great classes like AU ringleader Lynn Allen,  Carl Bass, Joseph Wurcher, Cheryl Romero, Lura Flynn, Leslie Coggan, Patricia Lundberg, Matt Murphy, The Matt Murphy Clay Head Sculpture, Martyn, Steve, Donnia, Chris, AUGI, Autodesk, exhibitors, Press, Mike and Melanie Perry, Owen, Darren, Devon, Mike, Robin, AC, Karen,  RK, Rob, Dave, Luciana, Assis, Eric, Shawn, Evie, Gary, Mark, Jim, Don, Elise, Next Engine, Crystal, Ellen, Sunith, Helge, Brian, Volker, Celeste (nice costume entry and also congrats on winning the iTouch), Jeff, Jay, Robert, Peter, Kate, Rusty, Don, Emmanuel, Christine, Bob, Hans, John, Jon, Nate, Roopinder, Doug, Douggie, Alex, Steven, Jamie (nice outfit for the party), Tommy, Beth, Jim, Shawn, Matt, Richard, Mike, Rich, Shari, Shawn, Bud, Yoshi, Pete, Jerry, Heidi, Denise, David, Denise, Jonathan, Fenton, Katy, David, Bill, Kim, Candy, Grand Lux, La Scena, Dell, Donnie, HP, TechSmith, Thomas, Tom, Betsy, Kal, Jo, Borracca, Anthony, Stan, Larry, Kat, MyFeedback Members, AUGI Top DAUG participants, Red Bull, The Valley of Fire, Red Rock Canyon, The Venetian, and many many more people, groups, and companies that make AU the best show on earth and an event worthy of people traveling from all around the world to attend and participate. I hope to see all of you and more back in Las Vegas for Autodesk University 2008.

See the AU 2007 Flickr Photo Group and my Flickr Gallery

http://www.flickr.com/groups/au2007/pool/ ( it is free to share your AU 2007 photos there)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/btl//sets/72157603222810607

http://www.flickr.com/photos/btl/

    
   

Cheers,
Shaan

 

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AU 2008

Autodesk University 2008 was just announced to be in Las Vegas! Woohoo!

AU 2007 - Hall D Level 2

Dinner and entertainment beginning at 6:30 tonight and supposed to be a 80s theme. I am headed there now but have little voice left. I am also without any 80s style clothing unless I wear my spandex rocker pants (just kidding).

For those concerned about the well being of the green clay Matt Murphy head, after it sat prominently in a seat in the CAD Management expert panel in front of those in attendance, I placed it in a safe place to rest.

Hope to see you there tonight,
Shaan

AU 2007 Autodesk Myfeedback Clay Sculpture winners

I want to thank everyone who stopped by the MyFeedback booth and created a clay sculpture. We have now selected the top 3 for prizes. Winners can find me or email myfeedback@autodesk.com to arrange for getting the prizes. Crystal Pearson from Seattle already picked up her brand new Apple iTouch for wining top prize.

1st AutoCAD R9 box (iPod Touch)
2nd shark (iPod Nano)
3rd Toucan (choice of book or shirt)

Crowd/Cult award The Matt Murphy Head of clay. This sculpture was created using an AUGIWorld magazine picture as a reference. This green clay head has been held, touched, and for photos with people. It was even 3D scanned. People just love this head and of course Matt Murphy. The person who created this Matt Murphy head did not even know Matt and will win their choice of a prize and knowing their creation is loved by people around the world and will remain forever in photos and deep in the AU memories and therapy sessions. I have had some recommend me to take this clay head to Brazil with me next week.

I also really liked the sculpture of a person kneeling in front of a toilet.

Cheers
Shaan

AU 2007 - AUGI TOP DAUG Winner

The winner this year was Michael Coffman. I gave him a pair of original AutoCAD R14 flip flop sandals and his photo with the Matt Murphy clay head.

Photos will be posted soon to the AU 2007 photo gallery.

Shaan

AU 2007 - in CAD Mgr. Class

I am currently in Robert Green's CAD Management tips and tricks class. Currently Robert has a great talk about how to be able to be lazy and make things easy for training such as using Camtasia by TechSmith to create nice video tutorials.

At 3:30 I am on the CAD Mgr. Town Hall panel part 2 with Yoshi Honda.

Both of these sessions are on the 5th floor in Palazzo - O-P.

Cheers,
Shaan

AU 2007 - Thursday

Yesterday (Wednesday) was an action packed day and fun. I have posted many new pictures in my AU 2007 Flickr Gallery. You can see that many are flocking to see and get their picture with the famous Matt Murphy clay head sculpture and it is beginning to get a really wild following. I heard a rumor there was an all night vigil around the sculpture the other night....

I am headed back down to the Autodesk MyFeedback Booth in a few minutes as the exhibit hall will be open from 11 until 2 for the last time. The Autodesk MyFeedback Team will be judging the clay creations and awarding awesome prizes today like an Apple iTouch and more to those winning at 12 noon at booth 900. we showed the new Autodesk MyFeedback Community 2.0 yesterday in our booth and received great feedback on it. Look for this new updated site for all Autodesk Products to be available for testing very soon for members of the Autodesk MyFeedback site http://myfeedback.autodesk.com.

Did anyone get Lynn's message on their hotel phone messages? At first I thought Lynn was being held captive in a steel box in the basement of the casino due to the audio quality but soon realized she was just alerting AU attendees to the days events. ;-)

Don't miss tonight's entertainment night and wear some 80s era clothing. I wish I had known before coming to AU but unfortunately I have no 1980s era clothes like the good old parachute pants. I plan to head out late for fun tonight for those willing to come along. I am also considering a photo trek to Red Rock Canyon which is less than 20 minutes away.

Autodesk University Sad Note
The longtime expected tradition of seeing the band Dr. Ruth with Pete Kelsey of Autodesk at AU is not happening this year. Please make sure if you are a Pete Kelsey and his Bands fans to make this well known that you want them back next year to play AU.  To me the Dr. Ruth band is a part of AU just as important as the Beer Bust event to me.

Cheers,
Shaan

AU 2007 - Wednesday

AU 2007 exhibit Hall opens in 20 minutes, see you there. I will be at the Autodesk MyFeedback booth number 900.

Cheers,
Shaan

Free Camtasia Studio and SnagIt Older Releases

Thanks to the heads up from my Perth Australian friend Steve Johnson for alerting me to this news item from Amit's Digital Inspiration blog posting. I did not even know even though TechSmith has a booth almost directly across from the Autodesk MyFeedback booth at Autodesk University 2007. I just have not got a break to run over and say hi to Betsy and the creators of SnagIt and Camtasia which I have used daily for years for producing screen captures or video recordings to communicate ideas, processes, create documents and even most of the screen images over the years in this blog.

http://www.labnol.org/software/download/download-camtasia-studio-free/1829/
http://www.labnol.org/software/download/free-download-snagit-with-serial-number/1841/

These are fairly old versions but great tools for free and the newer releases are even better. TechSmith used Camtasia and recorded a Screencast from New Zealander "kiwi" CAD Blogger Robin Capper who is attending Autodesk University this week as well.

Cheers,
Shaan

AU 2007 - Tuesday Afternoon..Photos, Certification Guide, and R14 Flip Flops

I attended the Morning AU Welcome with presentations from Lynn Allen, Carl Bass Autodesk CEO, Jonathan Knowles Director of Cool Things at Autodesk, and Jeff Kowalski Autodesk CTO. There was some really cool things shown and it all culminated with a grand finale of showing of future ideas and concepts live such as Metropolis which was shown live like Google Earth for the Deign World on 20 High Definition screens powered by 40 HD projectors in a full 360 degrees around the audience of over 7500 people. This high definition bliss was all produced by a Tablet PC controlling 20 high end screaming HP PCs live and drilling right down to the query of where a certain type of tree was in a city and a BIM model. I posted some photos from the event although lighting has been difficult. I also posted some of the photos I took yesterday when I snuck behind the scenes and watched Metropolis for the first time with my jaw wide open as Brian Mathews said "what do you think" I don't think I could say anything for a minute as I was speechless. So many things were racing through my mind seeing all that live spatial metaverse/multiverse rich an juicy design data on the 360 degree high def screens even including the question of "I wonder if I could sneak in late at night and play Halo on this system".

Perhaps it was coincidence but when I visited this computer area they called "The Hive" and I attempted to check my BlackBerry 8800 for email it started to freak out and I can no longer use it except to answer phone calls. Coincidence or not perhaps the multiple gigabit wireless connections from the 20 high end PCs freaked out my poor defenseless BlackBerry.

In preparing to transport some of my Autodesk 25 year anniversary artifacts to my booth for display I noticed that I have one extra pair of vintage and unused AutoCAD R14 flip flop sandals. Sure I could auction them on eBay and retire on a small island with a beer (ok not really) but I figure I can give them to wither the winner of this years AUGI Top DOG AutoCAD competition, the longest AutoCAD user in attendance with proof, or a person that is current active Autodesk MyFeedback participant and willing to wear them in a pair of shorts at the beer bust and the rest of the week and spread the word about Autodesk MyFeedback and give hugs to those who ask. Still have not decided on which flip flop giveaway criteria but I will. I should also mention the bonus is these flip flop sandals leave the words "AutoCAD" "R14" imprint in the sand when you walk. These excellent R14 Flip Flops will be on display at booth 900 along with Weapons of Mass Construction aka modeling clay for a fun challenge named "What's Created in Vegas, Stays in Vegas" but this is a G rated Challenge folks (speaking directly to Melanie's husband Mike Perry). I also have 2 brand spanking new AutoCAD 2008 Certification Study Guides to give Away among other nice freebies.

I wanted to thank Robin Capper a New Zealand Kiwi blogger, a friend, and nice guy. He came up to me after the presentation and he read one of my greatest losses this year was when all my luggage was stolen by a so-called Costa Rican policeman. Sure I lost camera gear and a ton of clothes and goodies but my New Zealand All Blacks jersey from Kiwi Mike Burke was in there. Robin gave me a replacement from New Zealand.

I finally got to meet a few people in person that I have not met such as Autodesk PR Paul Davis.

 

The AU Photo Gallery is at http://www.flickr.com/groups/au2007/ please feel free to join the free Flickr and share your AU 2007 photos with others. Subscribe to photos from the Autodesk University 2007 pool – Latest | geoFeed | KML

I guess I could go on and on but that will have to wait as I need to get down and set up the Autodesk MyFeedback Booth as it will be opening after the AUGI Meeting tonight for the annual Beer Bust.

Cheers,
Shaan

Rise and Shine, AU Tuesday

I am heading down to the Welcome General Session in hall D level 2 at 8:00 AM which should be very exciting and I will doing more video interviews for the AU website. There are only 7500 seats and over 9,000 attendees perhaps even breaking 10,000 so those wishing to attend should try to arrive early. 

I have started to post a few photos to the Autodesk University 2007 photo group which anyone with a free Flickr can also do. After the Welcome session will be some classes and labs then the lunch "Birds of a Feather". After lunch I will be at the "Designing the Future - A technology Preview of Design Visualization, then more classes, and I have to setup my booth to prepare for the opening of exhibit hall and beer bust after the AUGI annual meeting. Last night I had dinner with Melanie and her husband Mike Perry and group of other AUGI members as well as Assis and Luciana from Brazil. I was late to the Meet and Greet and many showed but were scattered. If I did not get around to your table, please feel free to stop by booth 900 and verbally scold me.

Melanie's post about her Monday: http://mistressofthedorkness.blogspot.com/2007/11/getting-off-to-good-start-at-au.html 

 

So many things to Do, So many People, So little Time.

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Viva Las Vegas

I have arrived at the Venetian Hotel and Casino for this weeks Autodesk University 2007. Already I have ran into many familiar faces just checking in like Stan Goodell, Sandra Lurins, Beth Powell, Jon Rizzo, Alex wood, and  more. I need to go grab a bite to eat but want something healthy tonight before the long week.

Cheers,
Shaan

The Wave and Escalante Saturday, Vegas Sunday

I had a great hike today into The Wave famous sandstone formation located in the Paria Wilderness area (entrance by permit only) and then a dive into the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument region with the Grosvenor Arch in Southern Utah. I have had enough of dirt roads. There was no wind or snow but it sure was cold in the morning.

I am tired and soar and need to get some rest before packing up and heading of to Las Vegas and Autodesk University 2007 this week.

On The Road Again, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Brazil, Peru

Already this month (November 2007) I have logged 2400 miles in my truck traveling around the American Southwest and I am going to add more miles to my November tally. Today I leave for Kanab Utah in Southern Utah which I will be using as my base for my solo hike into the Paria Wilderness area Coyote Butte North and visiting the famous wave sandstone structure again and during the hike crossing into Arizona. It can be a hard hike at times especially the deep stand which feels like you have hiked 5 miles for each you do in the sand. Sunday I will be headed for Las Vegas and Autodesk University 2007. After a Week at Autodesk University I then take a flight to São Paulo Brazil for the AUGI CAD Camp Brasil - São Paulo. After a few days in São Paulo I will then take a week of hiking in Iquitos Peru near the mouth of the Amazon river and some jungle exploration.

Tally for this round of 3 weeks of travel:

• 798 miles by vehicle
• 17,048 miles by air
• 100 miles by boat
• 50 miles at least by foot

AU and my current travel Links:

• AU 2007 Meet and Greet with the Autodesk MyFeedback Team
• Autodesk MyFeedback Team Booth 900 at AU 2007
• Autodesk University 2007 Photo Sharing Group on Flickr
• Autodesk University 2007 Photo RSS Feed
  Peruvian Jungle Town Rush Hour and Packing
• Convite para o AUGI CAD Camp Brasil - São Paulo
• Pecha Kucha ペチャクチャ at Autodesk University 2007
• Autodesk University 2007 Extreme Adventure Track
• Autodesk University 2007 Primer Download
• AU Sneak Peak into the Future of AutoCAD!

The Wave located in Paria Wilderness on Coyote Butte North (my photos from July).





The Wave Hike

Map of hikes and photo treks I will be taking around Las Vegas which are Valley of Fire and Red Rocks Canyon. I also think it would be neat for a small 4 person group of AU Attendees to take a helicopter ride around Vegas, the area, and perhaps the Grand Canyon for photos as that is a fairly short ride in a helicopter and there are many that do this almost on the hour. I took a copter ride in Switzerland up over the Alps and the famous North face of the Eigerhorn and that was soo very cool.

  

 

I hope we can meet up along my travels and please make sure to bookmark this blog or RSS feed for live blogging and photos from the travels including at Autodesk University 2007.

Shaan Hurley

Worldwide MyFeedback Community Mgr. & PSEB Technical Mgr.
Autodesk, Inc.

Direct 415 507-8432
Mobile 415 328-6747

Email: shaan@autodesk.com

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