Oh hello, I didn’t see you there.
I have not written, you know, WORDS on this blog for a while. Apologies. I have been busy making a mobile app poetry game, which is SUPER FUN and yet a very involved process. I will post more about it once we deploy (September, hopefully). All you loyal VC readers (ha!) can reach me any time via Skype to offer to fund what will be a lucrative mobile industry startup launched by MOI, through which we will gain professional and commercial success and eventually be bought out for a 500% gain after four years.
In the meantime, I spent a great fun weekend in Prague, visiting my longtime roommate/friend BB who, after four years, is packing up soon to move to our nation’s capital. Hadn’t been to Prague in 13 years. We did yoga and made jewelry and walked down this road with mansions where all the ambassadors from other countries live. Their lawns are immaculate and some of them have statues or intricate plaques with cool logos (I’m looking at YOU, Saudi Arabia!). All have cameras. No one was on the street, maybe because it was very hot. A great time.
My team members at the lab are all on their way to Austin to give talks about gestural interfaces at CHI, so I spent the day talking about the irrevocably failed Irish economy over lunch with my we-could-be-related no-really-we-very-well-might-be I-know-nothing-about-my-father’s-side-so-anything’s-possible Irish colleague, S., and then helping rewrite all the English text of my Indian colleague R.’s v2 augmented reality mobile app and then discussing this other AR mobile app conceived by my Iranian colleague. I really enjoy working amongst other expats — smart, motivated technologists and computational linguists and psychologists and engineers and audio/visual experts. It’s quite inspiring. Am I the only woman research scientist? you ask. Very nearly, yes. One of a handful. Welcome to 1962. Oops, I mean 2012. Funny how long social progress takes.
I have a bit of travel coming up starting next week. This is exciting and I’ll talk about it later. Berlin is growing on me (the gorgeous blooming trees and pollution-less air and plethora of bakeries and parks certainly help; the xenophobia and low salaries don’t), but it’ll still be nice to cross the ocean for a millisecond.
Happy early Cinco de Mayo!
