Category Archives: Globetrotting

Late night software ramblings

Lifehacker clued me into creepy tonight. I’m running Ubuntu 10.4 and couldn’t compile, so I booted into Windows and installed the win32 version. I’m simultaneously impressed and ‘creeped’ out, it works amazingly well, and I only trolled my twitter account. I’m currently trying to creep famous world leaders. Oh, and today my doc nonchalantly checked [...]

Europe 2010: Update

We ate a traditional Swiss meal tonight and then went bar-hopping/ sight-seeing along Zurich’s Niederdorfstrasse tonight. It’s almost 2am, we’re back at the hotel (we leave tomorrow), I can’t sleep, and I’m polishing off the last of a Doner Kebab. All of which makes it a good time to pontificate. We’re on the juxtaposition of [...]

Europe 2010: Day 7

I’m marking this post for future publishing because I need to catalog today’s events for posterity. Hopefully the timeline works out in the end. Today was our prescheduled day for a day trip within decent range of Stuttgart. M33p suggested Garmisch, and after a little research I agreed- I’ve been hoping to see more of [...]

Europe 2010: Day 4

Day 4 consisted of heading back to AMS airport, meeting M33p at Stuttgart airport, dropping our stuff at his place, and heading to Wine Fest to meet a bunch of his friends. Here are the Day 4 photos. Amsterdam’s airport (AMS, in case there are multiple) is laid out well, with an almost industrial architecture [...]