Updated: 05 Feb 2010 06:08 am by Ron
Filed: Life in General
Tagged: Deb • Li • truth
Scene I: Deb and Li are at the local public library. Deb recognizes a friend named Steve, who comes over. Deb introduces him to Li.
Deb: “Li, this is Steve.”
Li (looking a little puzzled, to Steve): “You are not a monkey.”
Steve (pauses, lacking any context for such a statement, and replies): “That’s the nicest thing anyone has said to me today.”
The background for this one is that Deb and Li were just returning a book to the library where one of the main character’s friends was a monkey named Steve.
Scene II: Deb and Li are at home. Deb is having one of “those” days, and is struggling to get the lid off the container of M&Ms. Eventually, the lid comes off unexpectedly and M&Ms explode out of the container and scatter all over the kitchen floor.
Li: “Daddy doesn’t open it that way.”
Updated: 28 Jan 2010 10:21 pm by Ron
Filed: Food • Life in General
Tagged: Food • Ian • St. Louis
Teagan (l) and Ian (r) at the top of the Arch on Wednesday afternoon (01/2010)
… and I think we are all ready to be home again.
Ian and Teagan’s presentation on Wednesday morning went really well, striking a nice blend of the geek stuff. They seemed comfortable doing it, and seemed to have fun in doing it. Very well-received by the audience, and I think it was more than just being polite; a number of them were genuinely impressed with what these guys had accomplished. As a dad, to say I was a little proud of these guys would be a big understatement.
They had a bit of time in the afternoon when there wasn’t anything on the conference agenda that appealed to them during the afternoon, so we wandered down to the arch (our hotel is less than a mile from the park with the arch, or “The Arch”, I suppose). I have to admit I was not expecting all that much, but it was way cooler than I had anticipated… and not just the weather, although it did start snowing while we were up at the top. I knew it was big, but I really didn’t have a sense of its scale and it really is pretty impressive. We walked back to the hotel in an increasingly-dense snow shower.
A rare splash of color in St. Louis: cool jazz sculpture in the snow near Laclede's Landing in downtown St. Louis (01/2010)
Food has been a pleasant surprise here in St. Louis, to put it mildly. We had excellent Indian on Wednesday evening at India’s Rasoi on Euclid with Bryan (Ian’s and Teagan’s mentor); it was exceptional and we all came home impressed and stuffed. We went a little lighter this evening with very good sushi (edamame, nagiri, and a couple different rolls) from Wasabi on Washington, then we wandered around in a cool foodie grocery/deli called Culinaria on 9th and came back to the hotel with ice cream.
Tomorrow we head for home, and we’re all ready — at least mentally — to be home again. Likely to be a long day, given that we aren’t scheduled to get back into IF until almost 11pm… I can’t say I will feel bad about leaving St. Louis. It has been cold, almost exclusively grey, and damp the whole time. Aside from the food and the Arch, there just really isn’t much here that we’ve seen that would make me want to come back but I also recognize that we haven’t had much of a chance to get out and do much and January in the midwest really hasn’t given St. Louis much of a chance to impress.
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Updated: 28 Jan 2010 09:49 pm by Ron
Filed: Food • Life in General
Tagged: Food • St. Louis • travel
St. Louis so far is definitely a mixed bag: ugly ride into town on the train, but a decent hotel and good food. Awards presentation for Ian and Teagan yesterday morning, their big presentation this morning, and sushi on the menu for tonight.
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Updated: 23 Jan 2010 10:39 am by Ron
Filed: Geek Stuff
Tagged: chrome • Mac
After several quiet weeks, the Google Chrome devs finally pushed out the next version on their “dev channel” with a late Christmas gift for those of us on Mac OS X.
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Updated: 08 Jan 2010 07:03 am by Ron
Filed: Life in General
Tagged: Weather
Current weather: -12 F, with a wind chill well below that.
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