[MINUTES] VC API 2025-08-26

Meeting Summary: VC API Meeting - 2025/08/26 14:58 EDT

*Attendees:* Benjamin Young, Joe Andrieu, John's Notetaker

*Topics Covered:*

   - *Manu's Absence and Japan Trip Cancellation:* The meeting primarily
   addressed the cancellation of a planned trip to Japan, involving Manu (who
   wasn't present). Benjamin confirmed the cancellation to the attendees.
   - *Personal Catch-up and Locations:* Joe and Benjamin engaged in
   informal conversation, sharing their locations (South Carolina and Southern
   California, respectively) and reminiscing about past interactions.
   - *Mojave Desert Anecdotes:* Joe shared a story about a large, abandoned
   solar plant in the Mojave Desert, highlighting its inefficiency and unusual
   visual characteristics. Benjamin recounted his grandmother's efforts to
   create an oasis in the desert.
   - *Future Plans:* Joe promised to raise a toast of Japanese whiskey to
   Benjamin in Japan. Benjamin suggested Joe send a picture of this toast.

*Key Points:*

   - Manu's absence and the consequent cancellation of a Japan trip were
   confirmed.
   - The conversation highlighted a shift from the original meeting purpose
   (presumably related to the VC API) to a more personal discussion.
   - Anecdotes about the Mojave Desert provided an unexpected
   conversational thread.
   - The meeting concluded with a friendly exchange and plans to share an
   experience remotely.

Text: https://meet.w3c-ccg.org/archives/w3c-ccg-vc-api-2025-08-26.md

Video: https://meet.w3c-ccg.org/archives/w3c-ccg-vc-api-2025-08-26.mp4
*VC API - 2025/08/26 14:58 EDT - Transcript* *Attendees*

Benjamin Young, Joe Andrieu, John's Notetaker
*Transcript*

Joe Andrieu: Hey, Ben.

Benjamin Young: Hey Joe,…

Benjamin Young: I wasn't sure if this was going to happen with Manu.

Joe Andrieu: Yeah, I'm not sure it's gonna either. So, that's chicken.

Benjamin Young: Yeah, So, I'm mostly in here to make sure people know it's
not going to happen. I guess I know,…

Joe Andrieu: Cool, dude. I'm bummed that you're not going to Japan.

Benjamin Young: right? Yeah.

Joe Andrieu: I enjoyed getting to know you a little bit in focus. I was
hoping we could have some whiskey again. where do you live?

Benjamin Young: Yeah. No Yeah. I hope to get back to whatever Mandanda Rock
might be nearby and load up on Japanese vintage pop crap and haul it around
all the restaurants like I did last. Travelers Rest, South Carolina. So,
the top left corner of the upside down triangle.

Joe Andrieu: Okay. Yeah.

Benjamin Young: Not real close to Japan, but No.

Joe Andrieu: Not real close at all. Ventura,…

Benjamin Young: How about you? Where are you based?

Joe Andrieu: California up from between LA and…

Benjamin Young: A lot closer.

Joe Andrieu: Santa Barbara basically.

Benjamin Young: My grandparents used to live in the Mojave Desert,…

Joe Andrieu: Nice.

Benjamin Young: so used to be out that way when I was a kid quite a lot.

Joe Andrieu: Yeah, apparently I don't know if it was out there when you
were a kid, but there's this huge solar plant on the way between Vegas and…

Joe Andrieu: Southern California where you go through the Mojave, right?
You take the 15 down and…

Benjamin Young: Wow.

Benjamin Young: Yeah. my goodness.

Joe Andrieu: it's a towerbased mirror construct.

Benjamin Young: Wow.

Joe Andrieu: So it's like a 50 60s story tower. with hundreds and hundreds
at least 500 maybe a thousand or more mirrors and a circle around it and
they are abandoning it.

Benjamin Young: Yeah. What?

Joe Andrieu: Yep. it's not as efficient as current photovotayics
environmental.

Benjamin Young: because it's still doing something and it's just sitting
there what's the cost? it seems the birds or…

Joe Andrieu: When you drive by you can see the superheated air near the
collector unit it's got a weird haze on it and…

Benjamin Young: something. Yeah. wow. Yeah. Sure.

Joe Andrieu: you're like what is that haze from?

Joe Andrieu: It's…

Benjamin Young: Yeah. Wow.

Joe Andrieu: because so many photons are hitting it.

Benjamin Young: Insane. You can cook eggs by just tossing them in the air,…

Joe Andrieu: So maybe …

Benjamin Young: probably. Wow.

Joe Andrieu: that's my Mojave story for today.

Benjamin Young: Yeah, for my grandmother was from Michigan and was not keen
on the fact that they'd moved to the Mojave. So, she used her fun money to
plant pine trees and all kinds of great and had built this oasis in the
desert for 30 or…

Joe Andrieu: Nice. no,…

Benjamin Young: 40 years. Kept the whole thing watered and growing. So, it
was really wild, but it took a year for the desert to reclaim it after she
was passed.

Joe Andrieu:

Joe Andrieu: it's already reclaimed. So her moment in time has passed.

Benjamin Young: Yeah.

Benjamin Young: It was brief and the new owners, were cutting down deadwood
because the trees didn't even last between owners. It was just amazing to
think about the amount of work she had to do to try and keep that little
patch of oasis alive,…

Joe Andrieu: Yeah. No doubt.

Benjamin Young: but not the best use of water,…

Joe Andrieu: No doubt.

Benjamin Young: but kept her sane, I guess. Mhm. Yeah,…

Joe Andrieu:

Joe Andrieu: Yeah. you need something. That's for sure.

Benjamin Young: for real.

Joe Andrieu: right.

Benjamin Young: Yeah.

Joe Andrieu: It looks like nobody else is coming in.

Benjamin Young: I really doubt it. But it was good to chat and…

Joe Andrieu: It was all right.

Benjamin Young: have fun in Japan for me.

Joe Andrieu: I will. It's still a couple months away,…

Benjamin Young: Yeah. Yeah,…

Joe Andrieu: but I will raise a toast of Japanese whiskey with your name on
it,…

Benjamin Young: I know. please do.

Joe Andrieu: And…

Benjamin Young: Please do.

Joe Andrieu: if I will I will try and…

Benjamin Young: I should totally pick some up here and …

Joe Andrieu: get you a photo of it.

Benjamin Young: please do.

Benjamin Young: That would be awesome.

Joe Andrieu: A little homage.

Joe Andrieu: Yeah, absolutely.

Benjamin Young: Awesome. Thank you,…

Joe Andrieu: Very cool.

Benjamin Young: All right.

Joe Andrieu: Take care, B.

Benjamin Young: Take care. Bye.
Meeting ended after 00:04:52 👋

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