Laura, Dennis and I arrived at the Sea Crest conference center in our rental car. A year ago, my drive was alone through a snow storm. But even sans snow, this place is pretty deserted as it's off season. Most of the conference attendees arrive tomorrow morning, but those that were here already, including Professor Maeda and people from Lego, Toshiba and some other companies went to dinner at RooBar City Bistro. Dinner ended promptly because the folks from Europe needed to catch up on their jetlag. And I had to go back to my room to work on a 5-minute PowerPoint talk for tomorrow afternoon.

- mike lee