pavilion

I rode the maglev train at the Japan pavilion at Expo '86. It was so smooth you almost couldn't tell you were moving.

All gas stations I've seen have an open pavilion/roof over all of the pumps. Flammable liquids?

Girlfriends laptop is an HP pavilion g7 and no number of tutorials can get grub to load up on boot. She wants to boot to Ubuntu?

Heck, I have a hp pavilion dv7 with switching graphics and even that was a pita to get stable on ubuntu.

For example I received a hp pavilion laptop and wanted to install another os on it. All I had to do was set secure mode off in the bios and it was ready.

In Korea for example, they have clever traditional windows that open like normal windows, but also draw up completely and hang from the ceiling, turning your house or other structure into a pavilion. Large roofs provide lots of shade.

One interesting thing to think about is our marriage was basically a little ceremony followed by two co-located family reunions, and it cost about $10K. In comparison a couple years ago my wife hosted and organized a family reunion at a city park for her family, about as many people attended, and our out of pocket was $82 for a park pavilion rental. So we're looking at almost two orders of magnitude of cost inefficiency.

There is a thunderstorm, they are playing a Wagner overture and the people leave their seats under the trees and run inside to the pavilion the women giggling, the men pretending calm, wet cigarettes being thrown away, Wagner plays on, and then they are all under the pavilion. the birds even come in from the trees and enter the pavilion and then it is the Hungarian Rhapsody #2 by Lizst, and it still rains, but look, one man sits alone in the rain listening.

And when he suggests they do it at the MIT Sailing Pavilion, they ask around and find a photographer who somehow knows the guy who runs the pavilion. So they meet up, and in some down time the manager tells Jacob: "You know, he's a pretty awesome photographer.