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2003-12-31
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Boston
As water laps my feet
And sharks surround me I sleep
You smile and line up your army
Boston is really nice. It was my first day without jetlag, too bad the summit is actually over. I was hoping to ask Nat for some feedback on my second talk. I discovered he has a site (what a cool url to have ;) ) so I learned he liked my first talk. But I wanted to know about the second - I was soooo tired and I don't really know what people got out of it. I know what I got out of it though - I want to get people together to design the player, and I actually have some ideas for it that might actually work. Let's find out !
Amy and Ben are really really nice people. They didn't know me at all and they just include me in their life while I'm here without reservations. I'm not sure if I see Belgian people do that quite as easily. I hope I can repay the favour someday.
Note to self : list of stuff I need to consider getting when I get back.
--> Playstation 2 with SSX and Metal Gear Solid 2 and GTA3
--> Surround Sound
--> Wavelan
I met Dan, who's a cool Venezuelan guy who also works at Ximian, and he was a great guy to meet. Really funny; we kept going on about this bit in the video of SSX (the snowboarding game) where some of the makers say that every stunt in the game is actually realistic. And when we played it and did some incredibly unbelievable stuff, we'd say : "I could totally do that in real life. In fact, I did yesterday". So I had fun last night just hanging out in a typical American high-tech living room.
Guadec
jdub dragged me into the Guadec prep talk. I'm sooo looking forward to that. I had fun at the last Guadec, and being here at the Gnome summit was an unexpected treat, and I feel I'm getting sucked in more and more into this Gnome thing. So yeah, this sort of thing actually works ;)
I think, actually, that this whole Gnome involvement thing I'm growing in right now is like the perfect grass-roots replacement for my boy scouts life I had given up on last year.