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My dinner companions [Flickr]

My dinner companions [Flickr] 12/29/2004 06:04 PM

The Hamburgler appeared on our dinner
placemat [Flickr]

The Hamburgler appeared on our dinner
placemat [Flickr] 01/06/2005 03:30 PM

mathowie posted a photo:

At the end of a long meal, someone raised their glass and this image could be seen. I instantly saw it for what it was -- a wonderful blessing in the form of the Hamburglar showing that yes, he does indeed exist and he is watching over us. Thank you Ronald McDonald, for restoring my faith in McDonaldland.

I would sell it on eBay, but it dried out, as our time with the Hamburglar among us was fleeting.

SFP: Dinner with Dan

SFP: Dinner with Dan 06/17/2005 03:28 PM

Going to NYC. Dinner, anyone?

Going to NYC. Dinner, anyone? 11/13/2003 12:44 AM
Next Wednesday I'm flying to New York to spend Thursday at the Yahoo! Hot Jobs office in Manhattan. I fly back home on Friday morning unless I can't get everything done on Thursday. Then I'll push back a few hours, I guess. Amusingly, the hotel room costs more than the flight does. Yeay! for cheap air fares on the SJC to JFK route. Anyway... Are there any New Yorkers reading my blog who want to meet up for dinner on...

Dinner with Doc

Dinner with Doc 06/30/2004 07:40 AM
Doc came over for dinner a couple of nights ago. We came up with a killer plan for spam, found a way to enable file sharing while ensuring fair compensation for artists, and whiteboarded the single epithet that ensures the defeat of Bush in 2004. Unfortunately, the dinner was off-blog, so you'll just have to take my word for it. Doc on the verge of Solving All Problems...

Dinner for One

Dinner for One 03/22/2005 04:40 PM

« A shrine to candle wax in the restaurant Kynsilaukka, the Finnish equivalent to the Stinking Rose. »

I've begun to notice that restaurants and just about any place that offers food and tables almost always have newspapers and magazines for their patrons. These are, I presume, for those who are alone and want something to read while eating instead of staring at the walls. Given that a large percentage of the population in Finland lives alone, it makes a certain amount of sense, but I still find it odd to gaze upon a sea of tables occupied by people trying to read and stuff their mouth at the same time, something I find quite difficult to do. I don't remember too many places in the US, other than diners or breakfast houses, that would offer newspapers for the patrons.

I always used to get take-away whenever I had no companion to dine with as I viewed restaurants as a place to be social and would feel very awkward were I alone. Sometimes I would take a book with me to a local pub where I would sit at the bar, order a beer and a burger, and read a little bit until someone would ask about the book or about work or whatever just to start a conversation. I suppose I admire the wherewithal it takes to take yourself out to eat, but there's something incredibly lonely about it, too. Finns likely don't even notice the silent ones in the corner munching away over the paper and even if they did they'd likely think they want to be left alone. I suppose they have to believe that.

I eat my dinner from an old tin can...

I eat my dinner from an old tin can... 04/14/2004 10:31 PM
A great old animation (5.4MB quicktime) set to a wonderful song Old Tin Can.

Geek Dinner Thanks

Geek Dinner Thanks 01/16/2004 10:59 AM
Thanks much to the 20 or so geeks who came out to The House of Orient last night for the Geek Dinner. I snapped a few pics that didn't come out terribly well. Oh, and you'll see a few folks have already pinged the original post with TrackBacks to their write-ups too. As others have noted, most folks seemed to know fewer than 4 or 5 other people there, so there were a lot of interesting discussions. Several folks...

Paris dinner

Paris dinner 08/27/2004 01:47 PM

Loic has set up reservations at a place called WINE BAR L'EVASION.

Here's the details:

Dîner avec Marc Canter le Vendredi 27 Aout à Paris.

heure: 20h

place/lieu WINE BAR L'EVASION
(I thought Marc would like a typical French Wine Bar, good food, excellent Wine - Marc I am gettin you booked in a nearby hotel so that you don't walk too much after !)
7, Place Saint Augustin 75008 Paris
tel 0145226620

Menu:
Mousse de Canard / Salade
Bourbonnais (un genre de Poulet de Bresse mais en plus 'leading' parait il)
Fondant au Chocolat
le tout avec un Cahors

Tout compris plats + vin: 47 euros

My dinner with Sontag

My dinner with Sontag 01/04/2005 10:41 AM
I crossed chopsticks with America's most ferocious intellectual -- and the sushi turned to ashes in my mouth.

My (non) Dinner with the Republicans...

My (non) Dinner with the Republicans... 06/24/2004 09:46 AM
As Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Republican Small Business Council (damn, I can't get that name straight), I received a personal taped call just now from Rep. Tom Reynolds. ...More here...

Dinner with Android

Dinner with Android 01/19/2004 02:53 AM

Here is a conversation from the near future:

Bob: I am reading Don Park's Visual Thinking now.  It's really good.

Joe: Is that Park with an 's'?

Bob: No, just Park.  Here. [Bob beams Joe Amazon URL]

Joe: Hmm.  Reviews look good.  OK, I ordered it.

Bob: ...

Joe: ...

On the surface, there seems to be nothing wrong.  But notice the type of question being asked.  With information at your fingertip, the need to ask for information from another person diminishes.  So instead of asking about the book, Joe is asking about query terms.  He could have also said “Could You?“ and Bob would have interpreted it as request to beam URL or search words.

I don't know about you, but it seems like technology is eating away at the meat of everyday social life, leaving just the bare bones.

In respect to blogging, I wonder how blogging affects a person's life.  More opinionated?  Less inquisitive about other people's opinions because they are already exposed to a wide range of opinions online?  Nice chewy topic I think.

Spam for dinner

Spam for dinner 01/22/2004 03:02 AM

I'm at a dinner where we're talking about spam. There are high level execs from many of the companies involved in email. One person said that he thought we've seen the worst of spam and that it's getting better. It's too bad I can't quote people with attribution, because I think this is a totally unreasonable position.

We've now moved on to Internet governance and as usual, I haven't heard a single opinion that convinces me that email isn't broken and that it isn't just getting worse. We talked about pay to send, better filters, re-inventing smtp, regulations... all of the usual. Yet another fruitless discussion about spam. (yafudas). 17% of legitimate email is not delivered. 81% of people in a recent survey are afraid of false positives.

Inbl0gger Dinner

Inbl0gger Dinner 06/01/2004 02:09 PM
This week I'm attending and speaking at Inbox Event, all about email. There's a few bloggers attending, about about if we self-organize a blogger dinner? Thursday at 6pm, we'll walk from the San Jose Marriott to a reasonable place downtown....

Dinner with Joe Grand

Dinner with Joe Grand 02/05/2005 09:26 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: I had the pleasure of having hardware hacker Joe Grand come to my house for dinner last night. (He was in town to appear on G4 TechTV to talk about his new book, Game Console Hacking.) He showed me a bunch of his amazing electronic projects, which I'll be mentioning soon on Make's new blog.

Joe also told me about his cross country trip to relocate from Boston to San Diego, and he pointed me to his journal about the trip. It's a fun read, and I love this picture he took of a cool UFO house in Chattanooga, TN. Link

Dinner with Adam

Dinner with Adam 05/04/2004 03:42 AM

On my last night in Amsterdam for this trip, I had dinner with Adam Curry at a meat house that reminded me of a bar in Mazomanie, WI, many many years ago. We had meat and beer. So did everyone else.

It's really interesting walking around Amsterdam with Adam, who is a very famous person here. People stare at him. Ask for his autograph. I get some of the reflected glory, who is that guy with the rock star? It's a pretty unusual thing for me.

Anyway, we talked about next things to do. It was good to get some one-on-one time with Adam this trip. Now it's off the Schipol, the Amsterdam airport, to go back to Boston, and whatever adventures await me there.

Geek Dinner, etc.

Geek Dinner, etc. 12/30/2004 07:42 PM
Tonight's plan: Geek Dinner and Geek Dinner Afterparty. That's assuming the traffic and weather are in my favor, of course. See you there?...

The Gadget That Came to Dinner

The Gadget That Came to Dinner 06/17/2005 03:54 PM
A small $49.95 egg-shaped gadget called Powerseed is designed to slow down eaters and improve eating patterns.

Tempura Dinner

Tempura Dinner 01/09/2004 09:44 PM
It's great to see Furukawa-san, the CEO of Nifty using their newly launched (it launched on December 2) Cocolog service powered by TypePad to keep his own weblog - it's a testament to his belief in weblogs and TypePad and...

Dinner and a Movie

Dinner and a Movie 03/13/2003 10:17 AM
Only recently have I begun to truly realize that the King of Thai Noodle House near our house is really...

Dinner with Bill

Dinner with Bill 07/30/2004 11:52 AM

Jeff Maurone, an intern at Microsoft, shares his experience having dinner at Bill Gates' home.

Further and further you descend, past what seems to be an annex library, as it was certainly not the primary librarian that houses the Leicester Codex (Bill's original DaVinci notebook, for which he paid approx $30.8 million). Elegantly non-intrusive but screaming geekhood were sparsely placed digital canvases that, ever so often, changed the artwork on the wall. We passed the movie theatre, rumored to be the most advanced movie theatre in the world. Finally, we reached the bottom level of the entertaining portion of the home. To the left was a room with a design so powerful that it could only exist in the home of the richest man in the world.

After hearing about the security surrounding the house and the amount of work Bill does, it makes me appreciate the ability to sit on my back porch, eat a popsicle, and watch the sun set.

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San Diego Dinner Anyone

San Diego Dinner Anyone 11/18/2003 03:32 AM
I will be in San Diego tomorrow/today Tuesday the 18th thru mid-day on the 20th and after the success of...

Longhorn: It's What For Dinner

Longhorn: It's What For Dinner 08/29/2004 05:12 AM
Longhorn is starting to look less like Tiger than another Apple OS effort: Copland, the ill-starred mid-'90s development campaign that let Windows 95 seize the marketing initiative. Is it time to turn the tables? By Matthew Rothenberg, Ziff Davis (via MyAppleMenu)

The bl0gger who came to dinner

The bl0gger who came to dinner 02/06/2005 01:09 AM
If you were going to invite 10 bloggers for dinner, whom would you invite? John, of J-Walk Blog decided to start this new parlor game for bloggers. I tripped across it in the 1/31/05 post on Reality Carnival. It's a pretty good way to find the bloggers that the most fascinating bloggers find most fascinating. (Did that make sense?) The best bloggers define their own personal Best of the Web. [Warning- proceed only if you have several hours to kill!]

Longhorn: It€™s What€™s for Dinner

Longhorn: It€™s What€™s for Dinner 08/30/2004 02:55 AM
Longhorn: It's What's for Dinner .. Is it time to turn the tables?

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Geeks for Dinner

Geeks for Dinner 12/29/2003 01:17 AM
A Silicon Valley Geek Dinner hosted by Robert Scoble is on tomorrow night at the Cheesecake Factory in Palo Alto....

BlogOn Dinner

BlogOn Dinner 07/19/2004 06:45 PM
Looking forward to BlogOn later this week in Berkeley. There is an open blogger dinner Friday night you can sign up for, should be a blast. Here's a nice article on Social Media as a Wave that interviews Mary Hodder...

cook your dinner on your PC

cook your dinner on your PC 07/23/2004 09:27 AM

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Micro-Content dinner #1

Micro-Content dinner #1 08/15/2004 10:41 PM

We're going to have the world's f irst Micro-Content dinner at Grand Sichuan on 9th Ave. - between 50th & 51st - this Thursday, August 19th - at 6:30 PM.

This place comes highly recommended by my wife's friend Yaroo - and eGullet.com< /a>. They have plenty of room - and we'll have plenty to talk about.

My friend Kenny Schaffer has offered his place for an after-set. He lives around the corner from the Plaza in a penthouse on 58th st. Kenny used to be Jimmi Hendrix's publicist.

Anyway - I'm really excited about coming back to NYC - where I lived between 80-82.

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More photos from Paris dinner

More photos from Paris dinner 08/29/2004 03:41 AM

Here's some output from my Nokia 7610.

It's me and some French blogger guy (name with-held because of ignorance.) The place was abuzz with Opera singing technologists insisting that open standards (mimicing the RSS-aggregator combo) was the path to enlightenment.

Most agreed. Some even let the wine inspire to yell louder than me

guess who's coming to dinner?

guess who's coming to dinner? 06/04/2004 12:38 PM
I talk about this in more depth in Just A Geek, but for years I lived with a very profound sense of shame. The huge acting career that I'd hoped for when I left Star Trek never happened, and as I grew through my twenties, I realized just what an epic asshole I'd been throughout my teenage years. Regret was a constant companion, and it was very hard for me to face friends and family, because I felt like I'd let everyone down. Of course, that wasn't the case. I had most certainly let myself down, but to the people who loved me, how I was doing in my career was unimportant. It took me several years to get over myself, (to follow that process in every excruciating detail, just go back to the beginning of WWdN's archives, and start reading) but once I finally did, I realized how many years I just . . . wasted. So last week, I called my mom. I've talked with her before about my feelings of disappointment, shame and regret, and I recalled that conversation. "So now that I'm over all of that, I feel good, and happy, and at peace with my life and career . . ." "It's good that I can separate my life and my career. There's a lesson I wish I'd learned ten years ago." I thought. " . . . and I realize how much I miss seeing you and dad," I said. "I'd like to make an effort to do more things together." Read more at WWdN!

Dinner With Bill Gates

Dinner With Bill Gates 07/28/2004 09:41 AM
Jeff Maurone: Are you beginning to feel like you are in Myst (the video game), because I was.

Geek Dinner this week?

Geek Dinner this week? 12/26/2004 08:20 PM
Scoble's in San Francisco this week, and he's writing about, "a geek dinner. Thursday night. At the Cheesecake Factory in Union Square. 6 p.m." I'm strongly considering going; about the only reason to skip it is that I have to...

Copenhagen Bloggers' Dinner

Copenhagen Bloggers' Dinner 09/12/2004 12:26 PM
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal has put one together on Wednesday evening in Copenhagen, where I'm speaking tomorrow and Tuesday at several gatherings. Details here.

Arsenic, DDT, and Mercury – It's What's
for Dinner

Arsenic, DDT, and Mercury – It's What's
for Dinner 06/21/2004 02:40 AM
BodyHealth.Com releases a new body-detoxifying supplement to help remove the chemicals, pesticides and heavy metals that invade our bodies, through the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe every day of our lives. The supplement Body-Detox™ contains ingredients that also help clean up and rejuvenate the digestive tract as well as improve immune function. [PRWEB Jun 21, 2004]

McDonald's: Dinner and a Movie

McDonald's: Dinner and a Movie 05/24/2004 12:41 PM
After initial success, McDonald's expands its testing of DVD-rental kiosks.

SF Geek Dinner Tuesday

SF Geek Dinner Tuesday 06/17/2005 03:21 PM
I got a very nice invitation to a SF geek dinner on June 14th. Given that I just got back home tonight, I probably won't make it, but if you're around, check it out. Mike, thanks for the invite, and...

Blogger/Geek Dinner

Blogger/Geek Dinner 01/07/2004 03:28 PM
Ran into Robert Scoble and his son at Palo Alto's Cheescake Factory last night (which opened this Wednesday). He was geeking out at the resturant's POS and hosting system. I had to get back to my table before I started...

Tuesday's Turkey Dinner

Tuesday's Turkey Dinner 12/29/2003 11:52 PM
Help me, I'm newsing and I can't get up. The first American patent was issued on this day in 1715. It was for a corn processing technique. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1867. The first football play-by-play was broadcast...
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