Air Ships and Hundreds of Pro-Chefs

Last weekend was the St. Louis Hot Air Balloon Race. A bunch of these behemoth cloth bubbles took to the air, embroidered with the finest designs I've seen on enormous expanses of cloth. Actually, while biking down Pershing, one drifted directly above me - like seeing a whale suspended over my head by just a few meters. It was incredible; next year I'll definitely sign up for a ride and wait in line with the interesting tourists.

This weekend is Taste of St. Louis! If you have some time tomorrow afternoon, there are still hundreds of chefs waiting to serve YOU with their finest gourmet dishes. I went down with Georgie to grab, including but not limited to, gyros, ribs, dumplings/pot stickers, Vietnamese spring rolls, more gyros, chocolate truffles, and cake ice cream. We watched one of the chefs (some famous guy from the Food Network) in his competition and got some of his food for free, and later walked around the neat shops. Feel free to also taste St. Louis with your eyes and ears because there were multiple stages with live music and local artists selling wondrous paintings. I particularly liked the paintings of ancient run down buildings that were definitely awe-inspiring in their time but now everything is elegantly aging. There was also a Microsoft Kinect booth which is an awesome device, despite coming from Microsoft, and a Disney section for kids. One of the main happenings at the Taste of St. Louis was the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Peabody Opera House. Georgie and I toured the newly refurbished building which will soon hold a famous Chinese choreographed dance group (and tickets are fairly cheap). In its better days, the Rolling Stones rocked the building, selling all tickets within 75 minutes after the first radio ad played.

Presently I'm hacking on CoffeeScript code using node.js and SSL socket.io. I hope to write nifty multiplayer browser games with this new knowledge - maybe games similar to the one Georgie is playing right now - a dungeon crawling game where you have to disarm a bomb while avoiding spiders and pits, all without any visuals.