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Chicago Connect
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Here's the line of storms that delayed my flight out of Salt Lake by an hour. I just barely made it on to my connecting flight in Chicago. Looking forward to BWI and a taxi home.

- mike lee
The Summit Room
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We're at a height of about a dozen Washington Monuments above sea level in the Summit Room of Cliff Lodge sharing presentations all day. The folks presenting have to keep from being distracted by the breathtaking view of the snowy mountain ridge. I'm also enduring a slight headache from the altitude.

- mike lee - snowbird, utah
Salt Lake To Snowbird
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My flight arrived without incident at Salt Lake where the weather was moody grey. The EarPlanes pressure adjusting ear plugs my mother-in-law suggested I try did a great job of keeping my head from exploding. I rode to Snowbird in a van with Hugh and Cathy, who run our Publications Group. It was a long and twisty climb into the cloud shrouded Wasach Forest. We're in the Cliff Lodge. The staff says there were snow flurries an hour ago. In the last photo, you can see my wonderfully usable Michael Graves travel alarm clock from Target deployed in my room. Connecting to the free Air2Data WiFi was all too easy. Now to find dinner.

- mike lee - snowbird, utah
Dude's At Dulles
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Hiking the haul out to terminal B. I'm headed out to Salt Lake City and then by ground to Snowbird for a meeting tomorrow with a bunch of our company's western region state directors.

- mike lee
Local Taste
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We walked Taste of Wheaton, our neighborhood festival of local restaurant cuisine and community services. Cici went nuts in the kiddie carnival taking in the ferris wheel, tilt-a-whirl, and moon bounce.

More photos on Flickr.

- mike lee
Bubble Tea From Bubbly Lady
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Walking past an independent cell phone store on our way to Suporn's Thai Restaurant for lunch, we noticed that the cell store recently added a bubble tea stand. Stepping inside to check it out, the lady behind the stand flipped out after Cici gave her a kiss on the cheek and insisted on making her a mango bubble tea with tapioca balls and fruit jellies. Child's head grows slightly larger again.

- mike lee - wheaton, md
Most Of A Day Of Service
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Today was our company's annual Day of Service where employees are required to volunteer at one of a variety of community service organizations local to their office. In a different twist from prior years, a call went out for eight volunteer photographers. I was selected. Each of us had to visit three or four of the locations to shoot photos. I visited all three of my assigned destinations today (all close to my house!) and also had a nice lunch break chat with the director of our global network. I made it home early because the last location I visited ended their activity earlier than scheduled. So now I have the day's take downloaded and edited.

- mike lee - wheaton, md
Hockenberry's Day
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Yesterday's Human 2.0 conference at MIT was simply outstanding. The host, journalist John Hockenberry, carried the day with a commanding, and at appropriate times, humorous stage presence. With co-organizer MIT Professor Hugh Herr, a series of remarkable people demonstrated how they are developing or using technology to enable greater adaptibility to physical challenges. Though it was many hours of programming, I highly recommend sampling some of the RealVideo archived at the conference site.

Pictured here are John and Architect Michael Graves, as well as my commute home.

I took scads of photos and video clips, some of which I will post on Flickr or YouTube.

- mike lee
At The Kresge
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I'm all regsitered at the Kresge Auditorium and seated waiting for the H2.0 symposium to start. The press office says there are 50 reporters here including the NYT, WSJ and of course Boston Globe.

- mike lee - mit
To Human 2.0
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Co-worker Pam and I flew up to Boston today to attend tomorrow's Human 2.0 symposium at the MIT Media Lab. We hit the ground running and had an idea-charged meeting with Professor Tod Machover. We checked in on Cory and Dan in the robotics lab. They were feverishly engaging in robot construction. Then John Maeda's assistant and her husband took us to dinner at La Tasca Tapas Restaurant in Brighton. The last photo shows how my hotel, the Sheraton Newton, sits on top of the turnpike and the earplugs provided by room service.

More trip photos on Flickr

- mike lee - newton, ma
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