Viewing posts from 2006
As Andreas of Spreeblick found out and posted to their blog, Gusgus have some of their albums and mixes online for free download. Very diverse stuff, and very interesting. I'll definately order some of their albums in the future.
From: Kunde
To: maintenance-info
Subject: Abwesenheitsnotiz
The photos I've shot in my spare time before and after Brainshare are online now, enjoy by clicking on this picture:
After calling in jet-lagged ;-) for Friday I slept until 3 pm, packed my stuff, researched the route and drove to Herbstcon Spring Edition (subtitle: "A joke becoming real") at a boy scout club house near Fulda. With 15 attendees it was a refreshingly small and cosy furmeet with lots of excellent food -- thank you, Fairlight and lynard_ for cooking! And of course many thanks to somewolf and kovu for organizing this very relaxing weekend. If possible, I'll be back next year!
After spending the night in Moab I drove to Dead Horsepoint State Park, payed seven bucks and was awarded with a great overview on Meander Canyon. Afterwards I proceeded to Canyonlands National Park, which is only a couple of miles away. Driving up there over the plateau is very scenic by itself, but of course the main attractions are the rock formations and canyons.
I drove down to Arches Nat'l Park today, started off at 5 AM and arrived at 9. Unfortunately, my hike took longer than expected, as I lost the trail at some point -- even though the trail was marked as "difficult", I simply can't believe that the national park administration expect one to climb a wall which would need either mountaineering equipment or take a freeclimber to succeed... I suspect that some prankster placed additional trail markers (a small pile of rocks) to confuse hikers. The folks coming from that direction, Frenchmen BTW, at least didn't know anything about three meter high walls of rock... Not wanting to waste another hour searching for the right directions I went back and tried a normal trail instead.
The day itself wasn't very eventful, however tonight was party time at Delta Center, SLC's basketball stadium. It startet with plenty of food, some kind of soda-pop which served as a poor excuse of a beer (I think its called Budweiser here), a DDR station, an Elvis immitator which wasn't bad, some silly green-screen music video parodies and a break-dance crew. Next, a mediocre stand-up commedian. Okay, mediocre in my opionion. Maybe I just don't know enough about American family life to find his jokes funny...
The elevators in the conference center broke down yesterday.