The art of not being one with the universe

So, Bucharest didn’t impress. Romanians haven’t discovered the trick of putting cables into the ground, or, with a few exceptions, mastered the art of building houses pretty enough to look at. Romania wasn’t, in short, a country with remarkable tourist appeal, although the bus ride into Transylvania was rich in contrasts (and had Dracula’s castle in it). I wonder how many of the cockups in this year’s ICPS was due to inexperienced organizers and how much was a lazy lassez-faire culture.