So after a tiring 28-hour-long trip (counting wait times in the airports), I have finally arrived to Phoenix, Arizona. Rosyna's been showing me around the place a bit, and it looks pretty nice. It is very unusual to see how dark it comes by the time it's 8-9 pm -- in St.Petersburg, this time of the year, during white nights, it's still very bright outside, so I am constantly feeling myself in the dark night here.

The heat is another topic. Our regular temperature is probably more or less equals the temperature that's kept inside of the A/C houses here (like malls or restaraunts). So I feel myself outside in the malls and on some sort of a frying pan outside. It wasn't as bad as I have expected it to be, though. The funny thing is that you don't sweat while outside. Totally weird. (Excuse me the ones who live in the warm places, I'm all new to this thing =).

We've met Jason Harris, the programmer behind Mighty Mouse. What's funny is that he looks exactly how I imagined him to look. We met in an Apple Store, and I was wearing that orange Unsanity t-shirt (I brought some of these with me). It was very tempting to come over to an Apple Store employee and ask something like, "I just switched to OSX, and I cannot figure out how to collapse the window into that tiny bar instead of that genie effect. Know how can I do that?". =)

Either way, tomorrow early morning it's my way to the airport to Detroit, for the MacHack. I'll continue blogging from there, I guess.

Tata!

PS WindowShade X is progressing well, if you wanted to ask that. Sooner than you think.

 Posted by slava at 04:09 AM | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
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Comments

Well Slava,
I live very very very close to where MacHack is going to be. While I'm not going to be attending MacHack I'm totally going to be near there sometime. I'll definitely be looking you up. Is any of the other Unsanity crew coming to MacHack? See you there, you will have a blast!

Posted by: Noel D. Jackson on June 18, 2003 4:21 AM

Have fun Slava!

Posted by: Joe on June 18, 2003 7:22 AM

You don't sweat because Arizona has a dry heat. No moisture in the atmosphere so it evaporates as it comes out of you. Try coming to the Mississippi River Valley or Flordia. You'll know sweat then ;-)

Posted by: Nick Peshek on June 18, 2003 8:59 PM

Florida is teh suck when it comes to humidity (can you believe I wrote anime by accident?). and I'm told New Orleans is much worse.

Detroit seems to have highish humidity.

Posted by: Rosyna on June 18, 2003 9:31 PM

Don't come to NYC in the summer then. It's disgusting. Sometimes I wonder why we choose to live here. Very rarely, though. :)

Posted by: Ken on June 18, 2003 11:11 PM