flickr highlights
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michiexileI maintain a flickr account,but I don't really do much to promote it, which is a shame since a lot of what I do regularly shows up there once I get around to updating it.
Hence, in the following post, a few highlights of things I've posted recently that I think people should see:
From older to newer:
Stanford by night is a spectacular sight. Some of the prettier buildings get illuminated, and the effect is nigh to magical:
After I left Stanford for the summer, I first went to Michigan, to visit Susanne. While there, we went to the Terpsichore dance event of the Cynnabar chapter of the SCA.
And got to witness just HOW do the manly men of the SCA knighthood settle their differences:
After Michigan, I went to North Carolina, where Bei Wang showed me a spectacular Sushi place close to Duke campus. This is what I ate there:
The deep fried California rolls were amazing.
After North Carolina, I went to Paris. I did many things, saw many things, and most of them are not documented for posteriority. Quite a few, though, are, as you may find, should you want to, by looking at my flickrstream.
Among the tourist traps, I found this gem:
After Paris, I went to Marseille, to the research institute CIRM in Luminy. Magical place, lots of great mathematics, lost of magnificent vistas. And they served their own Bouillabaisse. Now, eating Bouillabaisse in a Provençal coastal town is a quite different experience from eating it in a Swedish high school cafeteria. We never got one of these with our soup before, for instance:
Then from Paris to Leuven, from Leuven to Ireland, and lots of things happening that I will gloss over. The next trip afterwards, though, took me to Münster for a conference. And then to Århus for another one. At one of these places - I forget which - I found this magnificient use of base 1 numerals:
On Ireland, while enjoying life with my wife on her visit here, we ran across a garage door with a thing about dogs. It didn't particularly like them:
The Volvo Ocean Race came to Galway. And to Stockholm. And I visited the race village at both points. In Galway, the keels of the ships were occasionally the most prominent feature around:
As was the shoddy work some of the people had done in their geography:
No, Gothenburg is NOT in Skåne, and St. Petersburg is NOT in Finland. Geeez!
And of course, Galway is not the only place this happens:
Both Gothenburg and St. Petersburg are even worse off here.
After watching the race village, I also ran into some Kayakers:
Though, one must point out that not all parts of the Galway waterways are quite as easy to navigate for neither raceship nor kayak as the harbour area. There can be surprising things hiding in the waters:
At one point in all my travels, I ran into a Water Bar. A part of the shopping experience of whatever airport that was, that was dedicated to bottled water of all prices and from all parts of the world.
Why one'd shell out over €100 for a bottle of water I still cannot, however, fathom.
Some people can just not stuff enough food into their mouths at once, eh? We've all met the type...
And then there was the Stockholm café reiterating Ayn Rand's "A is A" maxim: Indeed, illegal filesharing is illegal. Even there.
So, what have y'all been up to lately?
Hence, in the following post, a few highlights of things I've posted recently that I think people should see:
From older to newer:
Stanford by night is a spectacular sight. Some of the prettier buildings get illuminated, and the effect is nigh to magical:
After I left Stanford for the summer, I first went to Michigan, to visit Susanne. While there, we went to the Terpsichore dance event of the Cynnabar chapter of the SCA.
And got to witness just HOW do the manly men of the SCA knighthood settle their differences:
After Michigan, I went to North Carolina, where Bei Wang showed me a spectacular Sushi place close to Duke campus. This is what I ate there:
The deep fried California rolls were amazing.
After North Carolina, I went to Paris. I did many things, saw many things, and most of them are not documented for posteriority. Quite a few, though, are, as you may find, should you want to, by looking at my flickrstream.
Among the tourist traps, I found this gem:
After Paris, I went to Marseille, to the research institute CIRM in Luminy. Magical place, lots of great mathematics, lost of magnificent vistas. And they served their own Bouillabaisse. Now, eating Bouillabaisse in a Provençal coastal town is a quite different experience from eating it in a Swedish high school cafeteria. We never got one of these with our soup before, for instance:
Then from Paris to Leuven, from Leuven to Ireland, and lots of things happening that I will gloss over. The next trip afterwards, though, took me to Münster for a conference. And then to Århus for another one. At one of these places - I forget which - I found this magnificient use of base 1 numerals:
On Ireland, while enjoying life with my wife on her visit here, we ran across a garage door with a thing about dogs. It didn't particularly like them:
The Volvo Ocean Race came to Galway. And to Stockholm. And I visited the race village at both points. In Galway, the keels of the ships were occasionally the most prominent feature around:
As was the shoddy work some of the people had done in their geography:
No, Gothenburg is NOT in Skåne, and St. Petersburg is NOT in Finland. Geeez!
And of course, Galway is not the only place this happens:
Both Gothenburg and St. Petersburg are even worse off here.
After watching the race village, I also ran into some Kayakers:
Though, one must point out that not all parts of the Galway waterways are quite as easy to navigate for neither raceship nor kayak as the harbour area. There can be surprising things hiding in the waters:
At one point in all my travels, I ran into a Water Bar. A part of the shopping experience of whatever airport that was, that was dedicated to bottled water of all prices and from all parts of the world.
Why one'd shell out over €100 for a bottle of water I still cannot, however, fathom.
Some people can just not stuff enough food into their mouths at once, eh? We've all met the type...
And then there was the Stockholm café reiterating Ayn Rand's "A is A" maxim: Indeed, illegal filesharing is illegal. Even there.
So, what have y'all been up to lately?
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Date: 2009-06-30 02:29 pm (UTC)Aching my way through a teleconference. Go opiates.
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