Saturday, September 30, 2006
 | On our way We left Toronto this week and are en route via New York to Auckland New Zealand. Adam has a meeting in NY so we're forced to hang out here at his company's expense for nearly a week. It's totally brutal :) I'm missing peeps in Toronto already and I know they miss me too 'cause I coordinate so well with their furniture. |
 | This morning I and my high school buddy Claudia and her friend Armando tagged along with Adam to Wired's NextFest (he scored free tickets for all of us). Some very interesting technical innovations are on display like the LifeStraw - it can kill 99.9 % of the disease-causing microorganisms in drinking water yet it's the same price as a Happy Meal. Some of the robotic inventions creeped me out - especially the Actroid Der - a Japanese receptionist robot you can rent and dress up in a french maid costume. |
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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| My last visit to Susu's house on Wolfe Island | |
| A fellow in the village gave Susu his five pet hens because he couldn't bear to keep them cramped up in a small pen anymore. They all have names but she's only sure that one of them is named Suzy. Susu and a neighbour fixed up a little pen in her shed for these excellent egg layers. I was very taken with their lovely bronze feathers and asked Susu to take a picture of me holding one. The hens looked so cheerful running around the house munching on crickets and it made me very melancholy, thinking about all the factory farm chickens standing in piles of feces in gigantic barns with no light. Susu can't keep these hens much longer as they'll be too cold in her shed. Anyway no matter where they end up they probably won't be meat chickens as long as they're laying three or four eggs a day. | |
