Whew–what a party last night! At least this time, I got to taste what I was eating….
You see, the NYC Swedish consulate celebrates Nobel’s birthday (December 10) by serving the entire official dinner from the previous year’s Nobel feast.
Last December 10, what with the distraction of Frank’s new gold medal, Mozart’s music, and HRH Prince Carl Philip, I hardly noticed the actual dinner at all.
This year was much calmer–not even white tie, “merely” black tie. Such is my ongoing double life that I’ll bet I was the only person in Wikimania’s IRC planning meeting who was struggling into a full-length taffeta skirt and silver shoes in between typing remarks about opensource software.
Then again, maybe I was not the only one. Who was it who said, “The world is not only stranger than we know, it is stranger than we can know”?
A remark that surely goes double for Wikipedia and the Web…