In an effort to recreate “The Hangover” I am heading to Vegas tomorrow morning for one of my closest friend’s bachelor party.
I’ll be back Monday with some pretty cool announcement involving JavaScript and native messaging support. Let’s put it this way – if this works out implementing D-Bus in pure JavaScript might be a fun side project.
Until then I’m going to be incommunicado except for my cell phone. Get in touch with me only if there is an emergency, otherwise I’m pretty much stepping into the alternate dimension that is Vegas.
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All in all pretty good for a last minute event. It ended up being a night at the good life bar as it was too much fun to leave. People ended up rotating in and out all night and we all had a blast. My dinner was pretty good. The spinage was amazing but the steak was a little overdone. The vodka martinis were also good but I would stay away from the mixed drinks as they didn’t seem to be of the same quality. I still prefer Om for martinis and cocktails but overall Good Life was pretty good. Dancing was fun on such an intimate dance floor and we even had a show of the local hip hop dance crew showing off their moves. Well it is 4 o’clock here – a bit late for this old man. I need to pack for my trip to Aruba on Sunday and am meeting someone for dinner tomorrow night. I will be mostly absent for the next week as I try to relax and soak in some sun and beach but I will be checking e-main every once in awhile and my phone will still work for emergencies.
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Well perhaps not but I am taking off this weekend to a place I have been in spitting distance of but have never crossed the border. I find it strange that I have been all around the world and to almost every state in America and still have not bothered to visit our kind neighbours to the north. So with my roommates Bryan and Chris leaving this summer for far off jobs we decided to take a trip with a bunch of friends up to Montreal. I went down to NY last weekend for mothers day and to swap my car for my parents van just for this trip. It should be fun.
Oh and Les Halles, Anthony Bourdain’s home base, is fantastic. If you are down in New York City and in midtown I highly recommend it
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Getting in touch with my Italian roots while running around Florence was great fun. Thank you Dorothy and Karl for getting married and sharing the moment with all your friends and family. I’m busy uploading all of the photos which I managed to save after my camera started corrupting the memory card. More on my time in Italy later. Now it is time to go and check out buzzgrinder.com – a music blog one of the guests at the wedding maintains.
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I’ll be in various places other than the Boston area for most of November. Starting this coming Friday I will be driving down to NY where I am catching a flight to Florence, Italy for a friend’s wedding. I’ll be there for a week and then am going to work from Atlanta, Georgia while visiting my best friend who is getting married next spring. To round things off I will be working from NY through Thanksgiving.
The Italy trip is pretty booked but I should be visiting the ATL and NY Red Hat offices to say hi since I will be there anyway. If any Fedora or GNOME folks want to grab a beer or just meet up let me know.
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Just thought I would chime in on Dave’s post since I had the oposite experience with Facebook. Ever since I started using it, it has been immensely useful, mostly in keeping track of friends in a spam free environment. I first checked it out in order to see the integration with Mugshot. I quickly found a friend I had in High School and started messaging her. Then someone I took a cooking class with friended me and sent me a message asking about the other classes I had taken. I’ve ended up gathering information about a dental office she works in and will be making an appointment when I get back home. From there I was friended by someone I had met in Thailand who’s family was friends with my family. We used Facebook to meetup in London before I flew off to Amsterdam last weekend. I was also able to find a Swedish friend who I had worked with at E-Trade some years ago. Not to mention I can see what my brother is up to.
For people who have a very centralized life, Facebook isn’t really that compelling but for someone like me who has good friends all over the world but am often only in a place for short periods of time it becomes the ideal tool to keep intouch and plan.
BTW – The one thing I found interesting in my travels is the progression of contact information which people ask for. First it was address to send letters, then it was phone number when cell phones became prevalent, e-mail and AOL Instant messenger were big the last few years and on this trip it’s been almost exclusively, “do you have a Facebook account?”
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On Friday night a bunch of us went to a Birthday party some random people staying at the E-Tap hotel were going to. It was loads of fun to hang out with some locals, discuss politics, play some guitar and generally get smashed.
The next morning I barely met up with Richard for a ride back down to London at 2:00. I apparently just passed out in his car and I have no idea how he made it to Heathrow in a little over 2 hours. At this point I owe him a whole keg of beer.
I ended up stashing my bags and hanging with one of my friends from Thailand who just graduated her masters program in London. Her friends had a BBQ which was a bit more mellow but just as fun as the last party. After the party I caught the last train up to Heathrow and spent the night there until my flight into Amsterdam for a bit of holiday.
On the Dublin to Amsterdam leg of the trip I was nodding off waiting for my flight due to the lack of sleep. When I came to there was a guy with an OLPC tee walking by. I stopped him and started asking him questions. Turns out he is doing the port for sim city to the OLPC.
I’m in Amsterdam for the next week. GUADEC was great but now I just need to unwind. Tomorrow we are going to catch the Mike Bikes tour to check out some windmills, a cheese factory and other landmarks both in and outside of the city.
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I just found out my bro has put down his deposit on North Eastern Univeristy. Last time we spoke it was between that and Loyola, Maryland. I was a freshman dropout of the Univeristy of Maryland* so I was worried about him going to Loyola. At least in Boston, if he needs to unwind he can always take the T to my place to decompress for a bit. It is also far enough from New York that he can feel independent but still go home when all of his friends aren’t around.
As a graduation gift I am taking my brother to Amsterdam the week after GUADEC. Anyone have suggestions of where we should stay?
* I later graduated Hofstra which in a winding path finally led me to Red Hat, so no regrets
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Had an awsome day in London. It reminded me of why I loved living there some years ago. I ended up going to see the Blue Man Group. Remind me to go get their albums when I get home. Tonal rhythem kicks butt.
I haven’t been able to get in touch with my friend which is a bummer. I hope she is ok. Losing my cell phone on the beach at GUADEC has made it hard to coordinate with others. I’m off to the other Cambridge tomorrow to meet up with some of the people working on various aspects of D-Bus. I’ll be back in my Cambridge on Monday in time for the 4th of July celebrations.
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It has been decided and I will be skiing at the Val Thorens resort in France around the New Years. Ski in Europe – Scratch that one off the TODO list.
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