Nerd Rage

Hier ein paar Bilder von einem Woch­enen­daus­flug nach Stras­bourg… One of the orna­ments out­side the entrance to the Cathe­dral of Stras­bourg, France. We went there for a day trip recently, and I have to admit it’s a nice place. Unfor­tu­nately, every­one there seems to speak the wrong lan­guage (unless you go into any shop where …

I spent pretty much every spare minute of the last 8 days fin­ish­ing a photo book of our 2008 trip through the south­west­ern United States. That included choos­ing the pho­tos, some adjust­ments, pano-stitching where nec­es­sary, and lay­out of the book. Dur­ing that work I noticed that I haven’t posted many panora­mas from that trip (or …

This is what the sub­way in Vienna looks like around 5:30 (am) on a Sun­day. When Joe and I had walked around town the after­noon before, every­thing was ter­ri­bly crowded and you couldn’t really enjoy (or pho­to­graph) a lot of the things that make Vienna great. Joe had arrived by night train in Vienna the …

This was the venue for this year’s ECOC con­fer­ence and the place I spent most of my time in the week in Vienna. It’s quite huge and mod­ern, but some­how the orga­niz­ers (again) man­aged to put the most inter­est­ing (and most attended) ses­sions into the small­est rooms. At least in Berlin they had a live …

This is the Karl­skirche (Church of St. Charles Bor­romeo) in Vienna. I found it dur­ing a short trip into the town after the ses­sions at the con­fer­ence were fin­ished for that day. I kinda ran into it by acci­dent, barely see­ing the tops of the tow­ers as I crossed the Karl­splatz on my way to …

The Kun­sthis­torisches Museum is one of the two very impres­sive museum build­ings oppos­ing each other on the Maria-Theresien-Platz in Vienna. When I first got into the hotel in Vienna on the Sat­ur­day after­noon before the con­fer­ence began, (Zappel-)Joe was already wait­ing for me – he had taken the night train an had been hang­ing around …

Here is the final batch of shots from the wed­ding of Mir­jam and Jochen… No, it’s not what it (prob­a­bly) looks like – Julia’s merely count­ing the lay­ers of the wed­ding dress… =) If I remem­ber cor­rectly, there were seven of them. I’m not catholic, so I wouldn’t know the dress code for the acolytes …

The small­est guest at the wed­ding. Her job seems to have been mainly to look cute and to pose for pic­tures. A good chunk of the time she was either push­ing her doll in a stroller or being whirled around in cir­cles by her dad – that is until he got dizzy. The guy in …

This is the back­side of Cas­tle Sulzheim, the loca­tion of the wed­ding fes­tiv­i­ties. But only a small part of the cer­e­mony was actu­ally inside the cas­tle, since they are still ren­o­vat­ing the place. Except for the recep­tion and a tour, the fes­tiv­i­ties took mostly place inside and out­side of what they called the Knight’s Hall. …

Wow, it’s been a while since I last posted some­thing to flickr. But I’ve been really busy lately: fin­ish­ing the first draft of my dis­ser­ta­tion, prepar­ing to move 600km across the coun­try to a place where the local dialect is sort of dif­fi­cult to under­stand, and also find­ing a new job. But just because I …