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Happy Pride / SFO -> Tokyo

Sunday June 29th, 11:45 pm, at SFO flying out to Tokyo for various SEMC projects. Totally bummed out, missing Pride. This was going to be Emi's first Pride, so since we are missing it - it will be Emi's and Maia's first Pride next year.

Happy Pride '08 everyone...

Onward to a an awesome LGBT(Q) Bush'less, gay 2009!

My Molecular Gastronomic Superhero - Wylie Dufrense

Diana was able to work her magic in NY last night, and called in to make reservations at wd-50. It turned out - the master chef, and culinary GOD who pretty much perfected and drove the molecular gastronomy movement, Mr. Wylie Dufresne was in 'DA house! We were invited back into the kitchen where we had a chance to meet the master, hard at work.

Wylie's bio:

Wylie Dufresne was born in 1970 in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of a
designer and a restaurateur. In 1977 he moved to New York. In 1992 he completed a B.A. in philosophy at Colby College in Maine.

After college Wylie enrolled at the French Culinary Institute in New York. After graduation he was employed at Jo Jo's from 1994 to 1997. Wylie was then hired to work on the opening of Jean Georges, eventually becoming the sous chef. In 1998 Wylie was hired as chef de cuisine at Vongerichten's Prime in The Bellagio, Las Vegas. In 1999 he left Prime to become the first chef at 71 Clinton Fresh Food, a 30-seat restaurant on Manhattan's Lower East.

Dufresne opened wd~50 (named for the chef's initials and the street address), a 70-seat restaurant with a state of the art kitchen, in April of 2003, on Clinton Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His partners in the venture are chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten and restaurateur Phil Suarez.

In 2000 Wylie was a James Beard nominee for Rising Star Chef of the year. In 2004 wd~50 was nominated by the James Beard Foundation in the category of Best New Restaurant. In 2005, *Restaurant Magazine* (UK) voted wd~50 thirty fourth in its annual "The World's Best Restaurants" issue. In New York
magazine's 101 Best Restaurants edition (January 9, 2006), wd~50 was awarded four stars (out of a potential five) and was ranked fourth restaurant overall. In 2006 in the Michelin Guide's inaugural American edition wd~50 received one star, which it retained in 2007 and 2008. The James Beard
Foundation nominated Wylie for Best Chef New York in 2007. In May of 2007, Wylie was conferred with an honorary degree of Doctor of Culinary Arts from Johnson & Wales University.

REALLY for Emi and Maia - LOL!

Need I write anything more?!

LOL

All Your Base Are Belong To Us

We went exploring and came across the most awesome Japanese toy and pop-culture shop in NY, Tokyo Toy.

If I had a bigger suitcase, I would have bought a CRAP load of cool stuff!

Diana's Shiromaru Bliss!

Diana and I dig into our Shiromaru's in utter happiness...

Amazing. As amazing as the freaking awesome weather we are sharing outside in NY this weekend.

Shiromaru, Nitamago, Chashu

Ippudo's masterpiece.

Shiromaru ramen. Add Nitamago, and Chashu and you have epicurean tengoku.

Ippudo in the Village

Hung out with my home-gürl Diana Eng yesterday, as we walked up and down the back streets of the Village, Nolita, SoHo.

Awesome weather, and even more awesome we found my all time favorite ramen joint from Mega-Tokyo, Ippudo.

the Man, the Myth, the Legend

The Man, the Myth, the Legend... Mr. Antoine Quint.

Agent of CSS Visual Effects for the iPhone and WebKit.

Antoine, Dean, Eric, Kevin, Barry, Simon, Chris, Gilles and Peter are the core team behind my previous secret project at Apple, CSS Visual Effects, the new iPhone HTML5 / CSS3 3D + hardware acceleration engine within iPhone 2.0 (OS).

Cattle Call

Cattle call!!!

5000 attendees, today will be painful. Last year we attracted 4600 and the air system sucked. Hot and humid, with food and beverages running out mid week.

Crank it up to 5k. And he'll will break loose...

Link (Legend of Zelda)

First night Maia gets to play as Link.