Archive for August, 2006

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Sprach avec me

Today I made the kind of linguistic journey you come to accept in Europe. I started out at home in English, spoke French on the first train, and German on the second. In Zürich I encountered Swiss German (yikes!) and had a funny conversation with  a woman in a store about that. Although we determined that we both […]

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Monday, August 28th, 2006

Hello Utata!

I’m now  officially photo-obsessed.

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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Old Lausanne

I just love the elegant decay of buildings from this period. Snooping around, you also find lots of galleries and antique book shops in this area. Where’s the music? I am still looking for the right stuff.

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Monday, August 14th, 2006

Le Deck

Le Deck
Ahhh, back in Vaud. There’s been apocalyptic rain every day since I arrived. But this evening the clouds lifted long enough for us to hit “Le deck” (hee hee) a bar with a hell of a view. This is Markus’s “panaché”, which is like a shandy.

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Sunday, August 13th, 2006

irreconcilable differences

Three IBM notebooks, zero compatible parts!
So despite our raft of RAM chips, we cannot pimp my notebook. Crazy.

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