Serving drinks
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Jen and Clint
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Watching the slideshow
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Steak flambé
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I highly recommend dining at Le Champlain.
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girl_tm and I were fortunate enough to get reservations for Valentine’s Day!
But perhaps that is because I’m a sucker for tableside service?
The filet mignon was very, very good.
So was everything else!
girl_tm has returned from her globe-trotting adventure.
The first thing she said when she stepped outside?
“It’s not that bad.”
Buried cars
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I’m leaving in about an hour for Toronto and will be there until 28 Dec. Torontonian friends, I’d love to see you again.
girl_tm and I are also leaving for Paris on 29 Dec until 2 Jan. Parisian friends, I haven’t seen you in a very long time and it’d be lovely to get in touch again.
To show how small the world is, we’ll be staying in a Parisian apartment, swapped with someone I met the night before he left Montréal for the City of Lights. And this apartment swap was arranged through the miracle of the Internet. For all of its scariness, it sure is helpful!
Last week, girl_tm and I were in Toronto.
To everyone we saw, it was so nice to see you again!
To everyone we missed, alas, we will have to arrange something next time.
It was the first time I threw a party with Flora.
It was amazing to have her friends and our friends meeting each other.
Plus, I got to meet Flora’s new beau.
I’d like to add that Vecchio Frak was very, very nice and very, very accommodating.
And the cocktails were pretty good too!
We shall return.
Rob, Aleece, and Flora
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We’re having cocktails tonight, from 20:00, at Vecchio Frak.
If you’re in Toronto, girl_tm and I would love to see you!
Let us know that you’re coming: here or on Facebook
We were only at the Hudson for a short time, back in July. The next day, we moved our bags to the New Yorker Hotel, which is significantly less spacious. We were joined by Ani and Alex, who split the room with us, and were also attending the same conference.
The Last Hope is a computer security conference held at the historic, but doomed, Hotel Pennsylvania. That hotel was even more cramped than ours!
There were a few talks that I wanted to attend, but I mostly wanted to see my friends. It’s nice to have friends all over the world, but it does make it inconvenient to have them over for dinner. We did attend a talk on how to get passwords out of your computer, even when it’s been turned off. And saw a demonstration on lockpicking. And ate some instant icecream.
I was most happy to see ioerror, janviere, secretsoflife, and Micah. All of which I hadn’t talked to in a very long time. I also got to have dinner with bokunenjin and meet princessleia2, at a stylish, but awful, restaurant.
You know, I’m getting worse and worse at actually attending conferences. Instead, the worrying trend is that I go to foreign cities to shop for hats, buy books, drink tea, and eat. Strangely enough, this doesn’t make me unhappy at all.
Small baths do, though. I got the worst crink in my neck while I was there. And bathing was so necessary in the sweltering moist heat of a metropolis in July. It should be no surprise to many of my readers that this was something highly encouraged, and frequently ignored, at this conference.
On the last day of HOPE, we scooped up some bottles of Club-Mate, grabbed some souvenirs, and went to stay with andukar. All the ex-NITIots in New York seem to be living under the same roof, which is nice because it’s a rather lovely one. We shopped for clothes in Williamsburg, took some photographs, and ate with regyt and novalis.
I can’t wait to go back. But mostly for the pizza.
I’ve finally had a chance sit sit down and go through some holiday snaps from the summer.
The Hudson Hotel gave us the best service I’ve had in a long time. Plus, it’s a lovely hotel too. I love spending vacations in bed, even if it seems like a prodigious waste, because sleeping is my favourite hobby.
This is in sharp contrast with my guest room, which has just had its wall torn up to replace a burst pipe.
Take Off Your Clothes is a clothing swap held twice every summer at the Piknic Électronik.
You bring used items of clothing and get to swap them with other fashionable clothes and accessories, one for one. Designers also donate clothes to the project, so there’s always something interesting in the racks.
Join the Facebook group to get invited to the next one.
Fiona and Aleece
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May’s Girl Geek Dinner was held at Station C, the lovely co-working place in Mile-End.
We ordered pizza and sat down to hear Stephanie Troeth give her talk on “Better Living Through Computing Algorithms”.
Fruit salad
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Neelan Rach and Aleece Germano
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