I was being funny. California has an undeserved reputation for being a place where business meetings are conducted by people wearing beach clothes with sandals on their feet and eating tofu, in extreme cases, pink tofu. I have no idea where the pink tofu rumor originated, but I have personally never seen any of it. Tofu is available but only in its base color or with the color of the flavoring (e.g. teriyaki) added to it. I have been in some meetings where the people were wearing sandals, so I have to admit that can be true. What images come to mind when someone mentions California to you, Xiaofan? Or to people you know where you live? Cowboys? Westerns? Lovely girls in bikinis on the beach? Huge datacenters? Constant earthquakes? I'm curious as to how ca.us is seen by the rest of the world. -- James. -----Original Message----- From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Xiaofan Chen Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 20:48 To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Subject: Re: [OT]California wild fire On 10/25/07, James Newton wrote: > I happen to know for a fact that there are Californians in MN. They are > slowly being assimilated, but they hide their sandals in the closet and we > still ship them pink tofu (in brown paper packages) on a regular basis. > I am sorry but what does "pink tofu" really means? I lke Tofu very much and it is very popular in Chinese/Japanese/Korean food. However I do not think I heard about "pink tofu" before. Google for "pink tofu California" does not really tell much either. And I have never seen the food on the first hit of Google for "pink tofu". Xiaofan (who once stayed in Souther California as a poor student). -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist