Aug222008

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

HPC • Science • Travel

Wow, LBL and Bereley is really cool. It’s basically at a large mountain. You can see San Francisco really well and the nature is great. I guess it’s really expensive :). My talk went very good and the listeners were very interested (we had many discussions).
Here the view from the Lab to San Francisco:

I’m now at Livermore. The hotel had a free wine hour today ;). But I missed it (had a fully-planned day). Ah, anyway, I’m here to work. The visit at the lab was very productive! I hope to work with some of those people soon ;).

I’ll proceed to the HOTI conference tomorrow ;).

Aug212008

Arrived in California

Travel

Ah, I made it to San Jose, the fligth was rather ok (Northwest), and the
hotel that Cisco booked for me is really great (Hyatt, ridiculously
expensive). The breakfast is awesome (you have people who cook you
omeletts on demand ;)). I also have a very nice rental, a Ford Fusion
with MP3 player and a nice car stereo ;). I didn’t like Ford too much,
but I think I have to change my opinion (after the Mustang and now the
nice Fusion). And it has two exhaust pipes ;).

My nerdlunch talk at Cisco went ok and apparently broadcasted worldwide (they had
very very professional camera equipment). CR means Cisco Research ;). I’ll leave to LBL tomorrow.

Aug202008

The crazy trip starts …

Travel

Oh man, the big and crazy trip starts … I’ll leave tomorrow for San Jose, California to give a Nerd Lunch talk at the headquarter of Cisco Systems, a talk at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, another talk at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab and to attend The Hot Interconnects Conference. After that I’ll leave to Dresden, stay for (nearly) one day at home and then leave to Dublin.

I got a neat looking rental. But it’s driving pretty badly actually – ah, let me cite my boss: “it’s shiny”. No, it’s a Dodge, not an Apple.

We’ll see how it goes tomorrow …

Jul242008

I’m usually not politically active

US

… but this is so obvious …. I mean I will loose all my faith into the American people, the society and Democracy in general, if anybody but Obama is the next president.

And I already lost faith in US foreign politics … how can one be so stupid, planning to build a “defense missile” station in Poland and then wonder if the Russians think about reanimating their base in Cuba. What the heck is wrong with those people? And the Cuba-crisis was also never foreseeable … no, no, no, there were no rocket stations in Turkey. Fefe also has some nice comments (partially German) on this.

After skimming parts of Legacy of Ashes, I’m convinced that the “Intelligence” in CIA must have a very different meaning in (US) English than the German word “Intelligenz”.

Jul222008

US post-war propaganda

US

Wow, watch this and stop trusting me ;). The text says that this film was screened to American GIs before they started their missing in Germany.
Too bad that there are no movies like this about Vietnam, Afghanistan or Irak. I guess the Germans must have undercut the US and continue “the vicious peace-war cycle” there.

But there are other funny “documentaries” like this ;).