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[zwol]

I spent the weekend with my cousins and grandmother in Seattle. We pretty much just hung out on the waterfront; my oldest cousin lives in a houseboat right across from UWashington. We also visited the Agua Verde Cafe and Paddle Club for lunch, and I got to see my grandmother's new apartment. A good time was had by all. I'll be uploading photos when I get home; this camera is something like five years old now (shock! horror!) and nobody makes card readers that can read its cards anymore. And I left the cable at home.

Am writing this from a hotel room in scenic Whistler, which is something like two hours' drive northeast of Vancouver (only 125km, but it's a narrow, winding mountain road). I'm attending the “2008 Firefox+ Summit” which is basically one of those things where they fly everyone who hacks on a particular piece of software into one place so they can all talk directly rather than by email. I haven't figured out which talks I'm going to attend yet. They keep rearranging the schedule on me. I hope I can find some time to get out and see some of the scenic.

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[queenpam.livejournal.com]

If it's my old camera, it's more like 7 years old, maybe 8... And card readers were hard to find for it when it was new, but card readers were hard to find in general except for the ones that had 6 or 7 different formats; this was about a year before I saw anyone using the size card that now seems to be standard. Ah, ancient history ;)

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's your old camera. I just made a number up.

It's, in the abstract, a good thing that memory cards now come in a standard format; but I think the only thing we have that uses that format is your fancy new camera (plus various reader slots on things that have hard drives, of course, but that doesn't count)

[queenpam.livejournal.com]

clearly we need to buy new gadgets more often ;)

[zwol.livejournal.com]

... Yeah!

[wealhtheow.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmmm, Agua Verde.

Seattle!

[zwol.livejournal.com]

It was yummy food.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

For quick scenic in Whistler, that tram ride from the little village up to the mountain top is a good one...