Nerd Rage

At the beach that gave New­port Beach its name on our first day in Cal­i­for­nia. We barely had time to pick up the rental car, drive down to NB (which is almost 45 miles in what in LA is prob­a­bly called “light traf­fic”), drop our stuff off in the hotel, and walk to the beach …

Frank­furt air­port gate lounge, before 7am on a Sat­ur­day, wait­ing for our flight to Lon­don to be boarded. It’s not even dawn­ing yet out­side. This is how my con­fer­ence trip / Julia’s vaca­tion got under­way. We got up at half past 4 that day, if I remem­ber cor­rectly, to be at the air­port in time. …

It’s that time of the year when every flickr-user on the north­ern hemi­sphere posts his or her pic­tures of the most col­or­ful leaves. Well, I don’t want to be the only one who doesn’t, so here’s my con­tri­bu­tion to this color explo­sion. I’ll be on a busi­ness trip / vaca­tion in the south­west­ern USA in …