After ditching bloo we then went back to Nadia's and Kevin's (who appears
to not have a URI) to play DDR. I sucked. Pav
and dbaron were a bit better. Nadia and Kevin have quite clearly
practiced this a lot and were quite impressively coordinated, which
was scary.
Tomorrow afternoon we're probably going to go see Soul
Plane since Pavlov is really set on seeing it.
In between all these good times I've also been doing some work on
the CSS2.1 test suite, converting the CSS1 tests to the new format
(more on that later when I've finished doing it). I'm getting there
— only 28 more tests to convert!
The weekend. David had bought himself a Linksys wireless router
when we went to Fry's on Friday, and on Saturday he installed it. It
was disappointingly easy. Where's the fun if things Just Work?
(Actually it turns out it didn't Just Work; the ethernet ports were
broken.)
In the afternoon Ben, Kerz, David and I went up to the Lick Observatory
on Mount Hamilton. It was a really nice ride with some great views of
the valley. I hadn't realised quite how much smog there was here. It's
rather scary. I don't remember seeing smog back in Norway.
We were given a nice talk by one of the amateur astronomers lucky
enough to get himself a job at the observatory, and then drove back
home. On the way, Ben was annoyed by a Toyota driver who was weaving
all over his lane.
Yesterday evening David and I went to Andale Taqueria in Palo Alto.
I had a small chicken taco. It was good. Today I'm planning to go to
San Francisco to meet Bloo and
see Shrek 2. Ought to be fun.
The agenda for the
workshop is now available. Looks like David and I are
going to give a joint presentation tuesday afternoon. We're right
before Microsoft, which could be interesting.
I'm very much at a loss as to what to expect from this workshop. On
the one hand I really can't see us convincing everyone else that the
solution is to continue down the HTML path. After all, it's not in the
interests of most of the other attendees. Many of them are wanting to
sell SVG, XForms, or XHTML products, and most of those who aren't are
probably more concerned with developing a good theoretical solution
than addressing the unfortunate pragmatic needs of today's
authors.
I managed to convince Pavlov to see The Day After
Tomorrow instead of Soul Plane. It was pretty
good. I was quite impressed with the CG — nearly every shot had
them. (After listening to lots of SG-1 audio commentaries, I
appreciate effects a lot more.)
I had a Grandma's Especial with flour tortillas for lunch, and we
just got back from another run to Burrito Real for dinner. I'm getting
my year's fill of Mexican food all at once in this trip, I think.
We spent the evening playing Monopoly. The first proper game for 3
years! You can see the results on our results page
(it's the 2004-05-28 game).
I have no idea what we're going to be doing this weekend, but I
think it'll involve some sleeping, given the length of this game.