it's not possible to really describe what etcon was, so a word-dump written on the plane back is the closest to an explanation.
ludivan, eight people in a car, sociologist influx, hippie threat, dentistry by mutual cultural apocalypse, quantum dots, not gold colored - real gold, killer robots, kill people for peace, ask a policeman, smores, wrong orders, the height of jeff veen, jeff bezos (comedy stooge), apple 23" cinema display, rendezvous, brit swarm, coronado, electric sheep, intensive dev, lack of bandwidth, password sniffing, 3m3rging loft party, 3m3rging loft sofa, shopping, pixel a.shun, meg's green shoes, overheating laptops, the plaza labyrinth, the yale boys, wifi, late night hacking, $5 water, sex toys, jones' childhood fears, webb's glancing info-burst, centrino keys (broken), frys, in'n'out burger, lax, driving to san diego, oh brother where art thou soundtrack, bluetooth, prussian food, mexican food, missing breakfast, todo.txt, flickr launch, wallop, dumpster, syncing, staging, deploying, firewalls, load balancing, nfs permissions, postfix, authorized_keys, email clocks, dannah's hat, ada's napkins, nokia camera phones, nokia cto, free ice cream, molly's memory, walking fast with helen, jelly margaritas, back channels, blank cds, heavenly hotel.
urgh. total sensory overload.