I am at CHI in Florence right now
While I’d like to be reporting lofty revelations about transformational design and social data analysis, those topics seem like a lot to tackle at this point, especially since I’m sitting on the floor and low on batteries. So I’ll just summarize my situation: Florence is beautiful, the workshop yesterday was excellent, and dinner at Buca Mario last night was delicious (few things can beat a fantastically giant 30 euro aged T-bone steak, except perhaps those succulent shavings of lard). Subsequent guinnesses at the nearby Irish bar (staffed by legitimate Irish expat bartenders) didn’t hurt either.
Not sure of my exact plan yet, but I have four days here at CHI, and pretty much every day has at least a few presentations I want to see. I’ve already run into a couple crews of people I know from Stanford, MIT, and the visualization community. It’s great to see familiar faces here, and to be meeting and interacting with all these creative, curious people.
After CHI I’ll take a week to cruise around Italy, most likely hitting Rome and Venice. For a number of reasons, when traveling alone I tend to want to stick to cities. Looking forward to sitting on park benches in piazzas, drinking beer, eating paninis, feeding the pigeons, and scoping out the locals and tourists as they wander past.
rss
