The rain let up for a day or so earlier this week, and a half-dozen or so Palm users made their way to Dakota Grill in Park Place. Buffalo tenders (whaddyamean, you're out of wings!?!?!), and an assortment of electronic goodies to play with. There were games like Triclops (http://www.iscomplete.org/Store/Triclops.asp - guaranteed to kill a day per week for even the most dedicated worker), and Gravity Ball (http://www.handarea.com/products/gravityball/gravity_ball.htm - another time suck), as well as productivity enhancers like WiFi software that works with Sony's Clie to allow wireless email or chat wherever you can find a loose network.
Speaking of which, our new location allows us to surf while we meet and eat, and this benefit allowed us to download, look up information, and chat back and forth between Chris' Clie and my PowerBook. As usual, the topics of conversation ranged far afield - Apple's interesting concepts for software, and wouldn't it be great if they had PC versions, OS X on Intel hardware, TiVo nuggets, new jobs, new Titaniums for a few, and the realization that last year's state-of-the-art is WAY behind Moore's law by this time! With Palm's announcement a few days later of a Zire (http://www.palm.com/products/handhelds/zire71/) with a 640X480 camera and 16 MB of RAM, things have changed quite a bit of late!
Altogether, it was a fun evening, and everyone there agreed that the benefits of the new location were worth the slightly off-the-beaten-path location.
