Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Vancouver Trip - Day 7

TIMELINE

  • 7:30 a.m. Awake
  • 8:57 a.m. Blenz Coffee - Breakfast
  • 9:15 a.m. Tractor Foods - Breakfast
  • 9:45 a.m. Festal Paleo Cafe - Breakfast
  • 10:00 a.m. On Canada Line
  • 10:20 a.m. Begin False Creek walk
  • 11:00 a.m. Pass Science World
  • 11:25 a.m. Terra Breads #1 - Lunch
  • 1:00 p.m. Ended False Creek walk
  • 1:20 p.m. Stuart's @ Granville Island - Lunch
  • 1:25 p.m. Rogers' Chocolates
  • 2:30 p.m. Ainsworth Custom Design Art Studio
  • 2:50 p.m. Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts - Lunch
  • 3:05 p.m. Hotel
  • 4:50 p.m. Met Dawn, ate dinner at Thai Express
  • 6:00 p.m. Attended Jorge Cham talk at IROS 2017
  • 8:25 p.m. Starbucks decaf to go with celebratory dessert
  • 8:45 p.m. Back at hotel; news, blog, receipts, book ferry, and so forth
  • 11:30 p.m. Asleep
NOTES
  • False Creek Walk
    • Pleasant walk, good weather
    • One boat flew Soviet flag
    • One boat name seemed vandalized, with "Blow Me" crudely painted
    • Graffiti art of startled cat under Cambie Street bridge
    • Watched a crow open an unattended backpack and remove a paper bag of food
  • Jorge Cham talk:
    • Points delivered humorously, in collaboration with PowerPoint 
    • Credited Stanford professor Bernard Roth with challenging him to change his thinking on "things we have to do"--Dr. Roth proposed we do the things we do because we want to do them
    • Proposed guilt as the main reason we avoid procrastination
  • Food:
    • Blenz: decaf coffee
    • Tractor Foods: Cold day-old oats with blueberry and raspberry compote and granola, apple muffin
    • Festal Paleo Cafe: espresso shot
    • Terra Breads #1: mushroom, leek, and quinoa soup, with stecca bread
    • Stuart's @ Granville Island: Turtle Cheesecake
    • Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts: Lime Coconut Puff, Chocolate Eclair, Tropical Fave
    • Thai Express: mediocre vegetable fried rice and yellow curry

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