So I'm up in Boston now! We're staying with Rich at his place on the west side of town — apparently there are a lot of cool restaurants and stuff around here. Last night we just walked around the corner to a Turkish doner kebab place where they also have millions of flavors of frozen yogurt... ;)

Rich is coding as usual for work today, so Paul and I will probably just go hang out somewhere and play Go. We played 2 games last night and 2 the night before so my brain is hurting quite a bit. ;) Extremely fun though. hehe... ;)

We ended up boring Rich last night with a long explication of "hangul", the amazing korean writing system. We tried to get him to play Go, but he insisted that he's not a game person... ;) I guess not everyone can get excited by a bunch of black and white stones...

I think I'll have to chug a few bottles of gatorade to counteract the coffee I'll be drinking on this trip. :)

I'm also thinking about going to check out the new Library built at the Christian Science Mother Church, containing many previously unpublished works of Mary Baker Eddy... They have a cool fountain there that they built in cooperation with some grad students at MIT or something — it projects jumbled letters in light onto the water, so that it looks like they flow out of the fountain onto the floor, then compose themselves into famous quotes while they travel up the walls of the room... :)

I also have yet to encounter anyone here with a Boston accent. ;) Most so far have been Middle Eastern... :-P