In a close-up of his eyes, wide as dinner plates, we see reflected not the curvaceous action heroine Phig but cascading columns of numbers: the codes of which the virtual tribe of cyberfolk are born.
So it was no surprise when the proposition of a building-wide potluck dinner arose.
Bavaria is part of this region; there, a classic old-school breakfast is a fresh pretzel — about as wide as a dinner plate — served with two weisswurst (veal sausages) and a dollop of sweet mustard on a plate.
If you've got multiple Google Home devices around your house, you can already "broadcast" to all of them to make house-wide announcements like "Dinner's ready!" or "help I need toilet paper downstairs" (THE FUTURE!).
Pasta primavera was as out as a wide tie, and other dinner party tricks, like forcing guests to hunch over the fondue pot, were getting stale.
WHEN Stockholm's Moderna Museet on the tiny harbour island of Skeppsholmen reopened its doors recently after an architectural makeover, an art-world crowd gathered from far and wide for an opening dinner.
Never has warming a plate (and you need a full, easy-access dinner plate, not slate, enamelled tin or a wide shallow bowl), been more important.
You might even surprise yourself, and lie back on the wide, pillow-strewn benches after dinner.
His years as chief fund-raiser, or vicar for development, and organizer of the annual Alfred E. Smith fund-raising dinner provided a wide range of wealthy and prominent connections.
And that colored everything, that simple negative: life in the dorms, roommates, bars, bullshit sessions, the smell of burning leaves and the way the light fell across campus in great wide smoking bands just before dinner, the unofficial skateboard club, films, lectures, pep rallies, football — none of it mattered.
