Nerd Rage

So here it is: the first JSOVT(MB) of spring. And that day, Julia was extra-springy, obvi­ously. It was the Easter week­end and we were tak­ing a short tour through the sur­round­ings of Rot­ten­berg while wait­ing for Julia’s sis­ter and brother-in-law to get back from an extended geocaching-trip in order to eat din­ner.

From what I can remem­ber and fig­ure out using Google Maps, this statue is on the back side of a Catholic church in San Diego called Our Lady of the Rosary. I was on the way back to the hotel, com­ing from a short course ses­sion in the Con­ven­tion Cen­ter, when I saw this bright …

I’ve been mean­ing to shoot my col­lec­tion of chew­ing gum bot­tles at work for a long while now, just never got around to it. So it kept grow­ing and grow­ing. It took me about 2 years to assem­ble these 31 bot­tles, which amounts to more or less three and a half gums per work­ing day. …

This was taken on my trip to San Diego last month, for the OFC 2009 con­fer­ence. Actu­ally, it was a few days after the con­fer­ence, when Hoden­maier and me rented a car for a day to drive around south­ern Cal­i­for­nia for a bit. Here we’re com­ing back from the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Lots of …

We went to see the Reich­stag build­ing in Berlin last Fri­day shortly before sun­set, and went up to the glass dome on the roof. For­tu­nately, we waited only about half an hour, I think – I heard that at peak times you can spend quite a lot of time there, wait­ing to get in… Sorry, …