Category Archives: A summer spent outside the kingdom

Sveitsisk jernbane er bra. Presis. Bra togsett. Nokså dyrt. Dobbeltdekkartog på intercity-linjene. Dei er lure, dei.

Went to Air 04 in Payerne. Very good show. The Swiss were good, but couldn’t beat The Red Arrows. The individual plane shows were also interesting, although it got a bit boring after a couple: They all did pretty …

Dominik taught us this word. Actually it’s pronounced “Rrrrrrrrriiiiiiiesenschmatzer!!!!!” It is the name of a peculiar kind of kissing, as follows: first a sloppy kiss on the cheek. The kissee will probably need to be gently but firmly restrained. …

Hadde studentpresentasjon om kva eg har gjort på så langt, dvs. ikkje stort. Det finst kjedeleg video.

Fine fjell heromkring. Dan de Mien eller korleis det skal stavast er ei høg og skarp fjellkjede der det høgaste fjellet er ca. 3200 meter over havet. Me starta på ca. 1300 meter, på ca. 1900 kom me ut …

Went to Lausanne with the usual lot. Nice city, nice weather. Lots of walking around, made a couple of interesting videos. Didn’t see the olympic museum, but interesting town. Very steep, so the metro uses cogwheel drive. Bought Master …

Went drinking with the local finns. Despite the relative cheapness of liqour here, they’ll happily buy a bottle of labsprit at the pharmacy for the punch and salmiakki. Didn’t get all that drunk, since I’m going to Lausanne.

Har meldt meg opp i INF3330, so ser gøy ut, og INF1060, som ser litt meir tull ut. Burde ikkje vera alt for tunge vekttal, og så vert ikkje lanekassen så sur.

I går prøvde eg meg på pinglerafting (knallgøy, dog litt tamt), gruppehopp frå ti meter høg bru (væ, veldig bra) og paragliding. Paragliding, spesielt, var flott. Etter litt flyging og risting skulle eg til å sei ifrå til piloten …

C is a human language.
Paris Sphicas, detector lectures, discussion of hardware programming. CERN summer school 2004.

Bought a paper hat. It looks, at a distance, like a black straw hat, but is in fact made from paper. I look cool in it, though. Of course. 19 CHF at C&A. I expect it handles water considerably …