I just got out of the half-hour-ish lunch with Bill Gates. Interesting guy. He seems most at home, not on a stage pitching a product or his company, but sitting around a table with a bunch of fellow geeks.

Joining us were Brian Lam from Gizmodo, Chris Grant from Joystiq, Ryan Block from Engadget and Bobby Scobel.

While I enjoyed the time with Gates, the crowd was so diverse it was very hard to dig too deep into gaming stuff. Instead, much of the discussion was taken up with questions about PC power use, vertical integration of Microsoft products and stuff I'll be able to tell you much more about at 7:30 p.m. Mountain.

I'm working through my notes now to pluck the interesting flotsam and jetsam of the conversation from the sea of otherwise white noise. Check back in a bit for the results. Brian Crecente

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