{"id":101,"date":"2008-04-19T18:33:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T17:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unixer.de\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/19\/miami-wrapup\/"},"modified":"2009-04-19T04:04:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T03:04:55","slug":"miami-wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/19\/miami-wrapup\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami wrapup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, I’m back from Miami. It’s good to be home – and good that I made it home. Man, the rental return *sucks*. I was going in circles around the airport for about 20 minutes because they put one sign *behind* a palmtree. Oh man … I was so mad. I barely caught my flight (the clerk told me that I’m too late but checked me in anyway (my luggage delayed the start)). Then I also barely made the connection flight because we arrived late in Atlanta (I ran through the airport … as usual). My luggage delayed the start again … oh man. Anyway, I’m back in Bloomington!<\/p>\n

Miami was nice but strange. The city seems to be under complete reconstruction and … dead. There is nearly no traffic (excluding Miami Beach) and no people on the streets. I am wondering who lives\/works in all those skyscrapers. Really really weird. And the people I met were strange and most of them only spoke bad English – the official language there seems to be Spanish. How weird (again). I made some pictures :):<\/p>\n

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Te highway towards the city … sweet palmtrees all over the place!<\/p>\n

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My hotel room – much better then I expected for the price. A nice tree in front of the window, free 1 MiB\/s wireless and great room service!<\/p>\n

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My uber-cool rental car. Looks silly … but pay attention to the spoiler! It had twice as much power as it needed. Man, this car was just cool!<\/p>\n

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The conference was downtown Miami … and here it is. Terrible … I did not like it!<\/p>\n

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I parked about 20 mins walking distance from downtown to save parking fees. I had a very very nice walk every morning. Really enjoyable – this is one of the views I got on the go.<\/p>\n

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The Miami downtown transportation system – a cute little bus on high rails. Looks weird but is free and kinda nice. Unfortunately only downtown … it’s still US (or maybe north Mexico?).<\/p>\n

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The conference hotel was right on a river where boats kept coming by. The area was full with draw bridges, as you see here:<\/p>\n

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People who stayed in the conference hotel complained about the noise this thing made (yes, it was pretty loud).<\/p>\n

That’s it … the conference was … hmm, ok. Ask me for details ;). Many very interesting conversations and I met some new interesting people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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