A clear view this time.., originally uploaded by michaelsharon.
Nokia Dinner at the Carnelian Room. 52nd Floor.
I spent the past weekend at the beautiful Stanford campus in Palo Alto attending a Python for Series60 Workshop given by the highly entertaining Jurgen Scheible. Met some awesome people whose work I’ve been tracking for a while – including Jukka Laurila, Kari Pulli and Joe McCarthy.
One of the highlights of the weekend was having a lively conversation about industrial design, boating, why he doesn’t own a Vertu phone and how Motorola is doing in the Third World with Tero Ojanperä [link no longer available] over dinner at the Carnelian Room (52 stories above San Francisco!). Other highlights include making it to Manlio’s birthday party at the Hemlock bar (a place I seem destined to visit every time I go to SF), hanging out with Raffel, Cameron and significant others for Sunday brunch, dinner with Andreas and meeting up with Mor and Tonya for a great snack at Tartine…
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I love this. Using logos of all the subway systems you’ve ever ridden is a wonderfully whimsical expression of creating a community around a shared experience. Tell me you don’t want to go to the site right now and click on everything. Now if only I could add the cute little Shinkansen logo…