With Skype you get egg roll (or Spider, Rainbow, or California Roll)
I began a new chapter (or maybe continued an old one) in my life the other day, and technology made it all possible.
MBF (my best friend, other then my MBH - my better half) and I have known each other since 1986, when we both worked for (shudder) BellSouth in a startup technology group. As I tell people, much to their disbelief, it was an entrepreneurial organization within a Bell Telephone company. Whoda thunk?
Anyway, Peter and I became good friends over the years, and we developed a love for good sushi restaurants in Atlanta. We would meet once a month or so at Nakato on Cheshire Bridge Road and sit at the sushi bar and drink sake and eat (mostly) raw fish and seaweed and rice. We developed a love for Ama Ebi, or sweet shrimp. It is the only shrimp served raw (in the US, anyway), and they tempura the heads (tentacles and eyes and everything) and serve them.
MBF (my best friend, other then my MBH - my better half) and I have known each other since 1986, when we both worked for (shudder) BellSouth in a startup technology group. As I tell people, much to their disbelief, it was an entrepreneurial organization within a Bell Telephone company. Whoda thunk?
Anyway, Peter and I became good friends over the years, and we developed a love for good sushi restaurants in Atlanta. We would meet once a month or so at Nakato on Cheshire Bridge Road and sit at the sushi bar and drink sake and eat (mostly) raw fish and seaweed and rice. We developed a love for Ama Ebi, or sweet shrimp. It is the only shrimp served raw (in the US, anyway), and they tempura the heads (tentacles and eyes and everything) and serve them.
I also favor seaweed salad and Spider Rolls (tempuraed soft-shell crab meat in a wonderful roll, served warm). Mmmmmmmmmm!!
After Peter and HIS BH (Melissa) moved to Asheville, NC, it became our custom to go out for sushi together every time either of us was in the other's town. It has been fun, but the visits have been fewer and farther between over the years than when we inhabited the same city.
So about two months ago, Peter suggested we both get Hue web cams and, every so often, "get together" over the Internet and have sushi! Well, last Monday, we did that very thing.
I went to a sushi place near my home that has a terrific sushi bar (Osaka, for those of you in the area - their food is great!) and picked up a Dragon Roll and some nigiri, wasabi, and ginger, and called Peter over Skype* at the promised time. The only things missing were the warm sake (I will rectify that next time by buying a bottle and keeping it at home), being able to hug each other, and having the sushi chef to thank before ringing off. (I still leave a tip.)
So, we have modified an old tradition of ours using technology so that we can partake of specially prepared fish more often. It isn't exactly the same, but it's better than waiting until we can be in the same city. I am going to suggest to him that we do it again next Monday.
After Peter and HIS BH (Melissa) moved to Asheville, NC, it became our custom to go out for sushi together every time either of us was in the other's town. It has been fun, but the visits have been fewer and farther between over the years than when we inhabited the same city.
So about two months ago, Peter suggested we both get Hue web cams and, every so often, "get together" over the Internet and have sushi! Well, last Monday, we did that very thing.
I went to a sushi place near my home that has a terrific sushi bar (Osaka, for those of you in the area - their food is great!) and picked up a Dragon Roll and some nigiri, wasabi, and ginger, and called Peter over Skype* at the promised time. The only things missing were the warm sake (I will rectify that next time by buying a bottle and keeping it at home), being able to hug each other, and having the sushi chef to thank before ringing off. (I still leave a tip.)
So, we have modified an old tradition of ours using technology so that we can partake of specially prepared fish more often. It isn't exactly the same, but it's better than waiting until we can be in the same city. I am going to suggest to him that we do it again next Monday.
How have YOU used technology in a unique, weird, or otherwise unsane way that is legal?
* - There are other video telephony services on the web. If you are planning to use one, just Google (or click this link) "free web video telephone services".
Posted by Sid Plait at 3/23/2009 6:16 PM 
Categories: Technology, Who I Am, Miscellaneous, All, Internet
Categories: Technology, Who I Am, Miscellaneous, All, Internet
What a splendid idea!
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That is an amazing use of technology. It is nice that no matter where you are the internet makes communicating easier.
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How is it going then, are you still keeping up your sushi meetings?
These days everything pretty much can be done online whilst on the move with the ever growing development of mobile wep, apps and gadgets. Wonder what it will be like in a further ten years time.
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Yep! We still meet every once in a while through the Ether. And it's still fun, plus I get to see my best friend hits way.
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