Dave has only driven halfway across the country in 3 days…. Pffhaw.. when Karen and I moved to Boston from Cali in 2000, we made it from Orange County, CA to Boston, MA in 4 days. Total. Balls out Dave.

On a personal note, Karen and I just got back from a long weekend in NYC.. we took the Fung Wah bus from Boston’s Chinatown to NYC’s Chinatown Friday morning ($15 per person each way, a steal!) and arrived a little after noon. Per a friends suggestion, we went to Times Square and got a couple tickets for 42nd Street and then moseyed on to have a cupcake at the Cupcake Cafe. Checked into the hotel, went to the show, had dinner at Les Halles (where we sat 2 tables away from Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale… behind us was Angela from ‘The Bachelor‘ !!!!). Saturday we had a late breakfast, went to Chelsea Market to look at cooking stuff for Karen and then took the ferry over to see my grandparents in Staten Island. They took us to Pal Joey’s for some fabulous Italian food and then I got my grandpa to break out the 20 year slide projector and watch slides from the 50’s and 60’s. Took the bus back today… New York city is a really fun place.

Karen and I are going to NYC this weekend to hang and to see my grandparents in Staten Island. I *know* some of you have been to New York, got any suggestions for dinner on Friday night?

Wendy apparently really likes the Southwestern eggrolls at Chili’s on Karensrecipes.com.

Y’all like the new design? The new search engine friendly URL’s? Hopefully google does.

My wife took some pictures of the area surrounding Fort Point Channel in Boston from the 7th floor (where I work) on a snowy night a couple weeks ago. They’re kinda fuzzy though.

The Boston Public Library has a neat section devoted to Fort Point Channel images.

Chris Lovett has a section devoted to Fort Point Channel as well.

Got a new laptop yesterday for work, so I had two laptops on my desk at one point. And a glass of water.

So I can’t boot my original laptop now because I spilled the glass of water on the keyboard, which I think then drained right into the HD and other critical components. I’ve *NEVER* spilled anything on this laptop in the 2 years that I’ve had it. Ugh. The drive did work in another machine for about 5 minutes before blue screening. The only thing I need is my 500MB outlook pst file and I’d be happy. Anyone know any good drive recovery specialists in Boston? 🙁

Dan put up some great pictures of last night’s meeting.

Dave quoted me.

Joe finally has a blog. For anyone reading this, Joe’s brain works faster than yours. Fast. Smoking. You could hook up a Firewire cable to his brain to try and suck the brilliance out and you’d still have bandwidth issues. To top it all off, he’s going off to get hitched in just a few short weeks.

Kevin Lynch has a new blog. I’m looking forward to reading about his experiences.

Scripting News: Dave Winer is coming to Boston on 02/11/2003 to speak at Harvard. I can’t wait. Dave, where do we sign up?