INQ wins Segway in Intel geek server competition

DESPITE THE fact that our Charlie Demerjian was wearing a very rare and limited edition Paul Otellini/Everyday Girl t-shirt today, he managed to walk away with a Segway after he was the runner up at the Intel Developer Forum megageek competition.

The top prize was a $17,000 twenty five trillion megapixel camera, which is what Charlie really wanted, but he's reconciled himself to the idea of a Segway instead.

The man who won the megagazillion camera works for Gateway building servers, which rather uncannily brings us back to Kicking Pat Gelsinger.

Just before Charlie started kicking people's butts by playing games like Asteroids and having machines mysteriously crash on him, we bumped into Pat passing the site of the competition. He said that contrary to press reports yesterday, he was more than happy with his new job as co-head of the enterprise section. He must have been happy, because he didn't attempt to kick us at all. He did exclaim to his admin assistant that it would be hard for him to live down the Kicking Pat nickname. But he seemed happy, and independent reports suggest that his new position might bestow on him a way to kick butt. Just as long as he's not kicking us.

In any case, here's a picture of Charlie Demerjian and Rob Squires again - Rob was also a finallist, but failed to win third position.