Thursday, June 12, 2008

Sun 1 Jun- Westin Campo Real

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Sun 1 Jun- After a lavish buffet breakfast (Westin really does it right!), we got Internet access, so Kiyomi worked on future accomodations and her work, while Stan did the photo upload to smugmug, email, and blog posting. Stan also finished the Dean Koontz "The Key to Midnight", having greatly enjoyed it; and continued the Charles Stross "Accelerando", now in the 2080's when the inner solar system has been deconstructed and made into computronium, inhabited by advanced AI, augmented or instantiated humans, borganisms, and a very different economic model, Economics 2.0, mainly dominated by AI comppanies. It's a mind-boggling view of the future.
We had an early supper at the hotel restaurant at 3 pm: octopus with rice, and squid with black spaghetti (black from the squid's ink). Both were very good, tender, fresh, not chewy and very tasty. The rice with the octopus was delicately flavored, and not the plain white rice expected, but a very nice preparation with bits of octopus mixed in, in addition to the large tentacles. We were so full we waited until the next day's buffet breakfast to eat again.

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