June 28, 2008

• 16 Paws

  The Hotel Careyfornia checked in four more guests today.  2 humans, and 2 more canines, making for a total of four dogs and three people in a 900 square foot condo.  (That’s OK, we once slept 21 here!)  My best friend Daniel and his daughter Tori arrived tonight for their annual visit.  For dinner we went to the grand opening of a new “interactive” restaurant at Hollywood & Highland called uWink.  They had a red carpet there that Tori got to walk, which was neat for her.  The celebrities were minor though, to say the least.  The owner of the place is the guy who invented Atari, Nolan Bushnell.  The restaurant lets you order from touch screen kiosks at your table and play interactive games with other tables.  It also features a 12 ft long interactive multi-touch bar that literally brings the bar top to life, letting customers use fingers, hands and drink glasses to conjure up digital flora and fauna, digitally paint the bar top, play a game of pong and ultimately order food and drinks from a digital menu. 

  
  Tori & Dad on the Red Carpet

  
  Interactive touch screen at our table.

  
  Look Ma, I can use a touch screen.

  

  
  The inventor of Atari

  

  

  

  
  Garbo, Ruby, Abbie, Nina & Daniel

  
  

  ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
  “There was an interesting study released today which says that people
  who live here in the state of California are less convinced that there
  is a God than the people of any other state in the country. On an
  unrelated note, more than 800 wildfires here in California are
  currently burning out of control.  They were started by a series of freak lightning storms last weekend.”  –Jimmy Kimmel

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