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Swiss Riviera
A 45 minute train ride outside of Geneva brings one to Montreaux - a resort town on the shores of lake Geneva. It has its own micro-climate as is evidenced by the presence of palms. The warm sunny weather was quite a change from rainy chilly Geneva. The best thing to do in such weather is walk along the lake and enjoy the view... But before we move ( Read more... ) -
Jet D'eau, Geneva
This fountain is an iconic symbol of Geneva. It was supposed to run continuously from 10am to sunset, but for some reason was not running around 1pm when I decided to take a look at it ( Read more... ) -
Geneva highlights
There are few things you need to know about Geneva:
- It's expensive
- They speak french there
- Places close early and on Sunday most don't open at all
- It's more pleasant than Brussels and less pleasant than Paris
That about covers it.
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And another thing...
The Hurricane tracking map on nytimes is great: http://www.nytimes.com/projects/hurricanes/#!/2011/Irene?hp. Though I'm distracted by the fact that the past and current area of hurricane/storm winds is looking remarkably penis-like ( Read more... ) -
Hurricane preparedness 101
Paranoia is infectious. I, along with hundreds of like-minded monkeys, headed to Wholefoods after work to grab whatever I could to set myself up in comfort and style for the next couple of days ( Read more... ) -
Really lost in translation
На еженедельном визите к родителям отчитываюсь о своих планах:
Я: Собираюсь на bachelorette party
Родители: На что?
Я: Ну это, дева... деви..., ну как это по русски?
Мама: Это девичник
Папа: Это сучник
Мы втроём ржали минут пять -
technical difficulties
I'm so used to my flaky DSL connection that it took me twenty minutes of resetting various devices to figure out that it's Netflix that's actually down.
Rejoice Verizon, another company will be in the news tomorrow. Seems the elastic snapped on Amazon's cloud in us-east... why can't Netflix diversify to us-west? -
Culinary discoveries
The other day I happened to walk by the Donut Plant. I read about it a few weeks ago and was instantly intrigued by their inventive approach to donuts. The original Donut Plant is in Chinatown not too far from my office. I've been avoiding going near it since these days I feel it's best to read about desserts than partake. It seems the Donut Plant ( Read more... ) -
dybr
Three weeks on the new job. I get a lot of "so how do you like the new place?" questions. No idea how to answer. It's different. rkatsyv once said it best, so I'll quote: "Новое ярмо не тяжелее старого, но трет шею непривычно ( Read more... ) -
Countdown to employment
After five days in Barbados I'm well done and crispy despite multiple applications of sunblock. riontel meanwhile retains her natural blue-ish hue. Next time I will use her tactic as well, which is to cover yourself with spf100 and then wrap yourself in a towel head to toe ( Read more... )