The scene: one of the tables at the teppanyaki restaurant Kobe in downtown Vancouver. We’d just wrapped up running the TechDays Vancouver conference and were having a celebratory dinner.
Here’s a classic bit of teppanyaki stagecraft, the onion volcano, getting put together:
Here’s chef Eric filling it with cooking oil as my co-worker Rick Claus looks on:
We have ignition…
…and banzai! I love Rick’s expression in the background. That’s an IT pro’s reaction to illumination from natural sources: “The light! It burns!”
