Woke up thinking \u201cI get to go home today.\u201d Of course, I need to get through from now (7am) to when my plane leaves (11:10pm). Fifteen hours after that, it\u2019ll be 4:45am in New York, and my plane will land. Tanned, rested, and lively \u2013 I will bounce off the plane, catch a puddle jumper to Boston, and meet Jen at approximately 8:10am on Saturday. Perhaps then I will go to Judo, catch up on housework, and then go to her boss\u2019s holiday party in the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I feel good enough right now that this actually seems like a reasonable sort of schedule for a \u201cday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yesterday was pretty much as expected. My Kingfisher flight got me to Delhi around 11:45 on Wed, and I got to the hotel around 1 in the morning. The Delhi Hyatt Regency is, perhaps, more palatial than the one in Kolkata. As mentioned on Facebook, my room is smaller and contains (among other things):<\/p>\n\n\n\n
* A switch next to the bed to make the curtains open
* A square bathtub. I was filled with the urge to bathe, just to see how it worked. Turns out that it\u2019s deep enough to sit up comfortably. Simple as that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not to gush about the hotel some more, but this place is massive. Breakfast is quite the production. Indian, Western, Asian foods \u2026 a juice bar that amounts to huge piles of fruit and a blender. When I have a few more minutes I\u2019ll post pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yesterday\u2019s session was good, but frustrating at the end. About 30 people showed up from all over India \u2013 various Apple resellers and partners \u2013 to listen to me hold forth on compute clusters and so forth. I talked fairly free-form for about four hours. During the last hour they rolled in a pair of Mac Pros. I\u2019m still talking, keep in mind. They put operating systems on the machines and rig some cables. I\u2019m still talking. Then one of the guys is like \u201cChris, can I switch over the video?\u201d I\u2019m like \u201cwhy?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSo you can do your demo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Demo? Oh yeah, right. There\u2019s a demo. On which computers? Those? My software doesn\u2019t run on Mac Pros. It runs on Xserves. And, um, could we take a coffee break so I could look at this frankencomputer you\u2019ve built? Right. You folks go get coffee, I\u2019ll just be a sec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wound up saying \u201cno.\u201d It was too much. I flailed in front of the audience, on live video, for about half an hour and then just called it. \u201cWe\u2019ll get this set up tonight, come back for tomorrow\u2019s session.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then the big boss and I went for dinner. Southern Indian food this time. They keep pushing KFC on me and I\u2019m like (a) vegetarian, and (b) I am in INDIA. I want to eat INDIAN food. I want it to be VEGETARIAN and SPICY. I even tried real butter-milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So: One more day. Class until 4pm. Meeting with potential customer at 5:30pm. Then to the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oh yeah, and trinkets have been obtained. Woot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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