<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Scobleizer]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://scobleizer.blog]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Robert Scoble]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://scobleizer.blog/author/scobleizer/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Geek dinner in Brussels tonight, some of our pictures from&nbsp;Europe]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Looking forward to meeting <a href="http://www.blogologie.be/2005/11/brussels_geek_d.html">a crowd of geeks tonight in Brussels</a>. Maryam and I just bought a bunch of chocolates. Yummy.</p>
<p>Last night I had mussels. Yeah, mussels in Brussels. They were yummy, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034363287@N01/71316428/">here, have some.</a></p>
<p>In Paris the other night <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034363287@N01/71316377/">Maryam was especially radiant</a>. Cool trick with slow flash and spinning the camera.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034363287@N01/71316354/">Dave Sifry, founder of Technorati, and I were partying way too late</a> into the evening in Paris. We were out with <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034363287@N01/71316341/">a bunch of these guys</a> who invited us out to a Paris geek dinner. Can you pick out the VC in that crowd? Someone give us names!</p>
<p>Just to prove I did have dinner with a real live model, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034363287@N01/71316226/">here&#8217;s a picture I took of Anina</a> and another where <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034363287@N01/71316142/">I&#8217;m in a picture with her</a> and my wife is between us. Heheh. Actually, Maryam and her became good friends. When we were leaving they were literally dancing in the aisles together. I&#8217;ll leave that image in your heads.</p>
<p>OK, now, <a href="http://blogs.theage.com.au/razor/archives/microsoft/001464.html">some of you said I needed a soul</a>. So, the other night, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034363287@N01/71316100/">we visited Mass at Notre Dame</a>. Even if you aren&#8217;t religious, this is a must-see experience (you can walk around the whole church while they are holding mass &#8212; the music is incredible and the accoustics must be experienced). <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034363287@N01/71316112/in/photostream/?rotated=1&amp;cb=1134060316390">Lighting a prayer candle</a> is a spiritual experience.</p>
<p>Just to bug those of you who can&#8217;t believe I actually look at computers at famous museums around the world, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034363287@N01/71316002/">here&#8217;s a picture of one of the Windows terminals</a> at the D&#8217;Orsay. Of course, for those of you who think I have no class, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034363287@N01/71315922/">we also checked out the Van Gogh&#8217;s too</a>!
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<p>More fun stuff soon. Having way too much fun in Europe. Off to the geek dinner&#8230;</p>
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