The Reyes Report

Much hilarity ensues.

Yes. This Saturday, Conrad and some of his colleagues boarded the corporate-sponsored dragon boat and pulled together to the beat of a Chinese drum strapped to the bow. Saturday was the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival — and it was celebrated in many cities around the world. In New York City, celebrations were centered in Flushing, Queens (or what our accented friends call “Frushing” .. eventually we worked it out).

The lake was right near the site of the 1964/65 World’s Fair — made famous recently in Will Smith’s “Men in Black” when the large alien tried to make a get-away from the flying saucers that loom over the decrepit fair grounds. We walked right by them.

The guys walked away with the bronze medal from their first race – nice. Unfortunately, Sunday’s race was forfeited when our stalwart techies were unable to diversify crew with the requisite number of female employees. Ah two ways to take that I’m afraid: 1. Our techies still need some help meeting girls, and 2. We still have some work to do to break through that digital divide .. let’s get cracking ladies, the boys need help in the dragon boats!