{"id":39,"date":"2007-03-27T20:47:57","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T19:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unixer.de\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/03\/27\/long-beach-ca\/"},"modified":"2009-04-19T04:11:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T03:11:32","slug":"long-beach-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/03\/27\/long-beach-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some first impressions from my trip to the west coast.<br \/>\nMy ride to the airport (yeah, the driver carries my bag &#8211; he literally pulled it out of my hand *g*).<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"\/blog\/pics\/mar07\/lb_limo1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the inside (huh):<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"\/blog\/pics\/mar07\/lb_limo2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The weather in Long Beach was pretty cold (about 16 Celsius, Bloomington was about 27 Celsius *argh*). Anyway, it was a sunny and nice day, and my rental car (Pontiac) is neat (I&#8217;m now proud member of the Emerald club &#8211; thanks to IU):<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"\/blog\/pics\/mar07\/lb_car1.jpg\" \/><img src=\"\/blog\/pics\/mar07\/lb_car2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ok, I should have printed a map :-(. They did *not* have a map of Long Beach at the Los Angeles Airport :-(. So I tried to find the hotel on my own. That was a clear desaster, but I think I found the place where several scenes for Terminator I were shot:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"\/blog\/pics\/mar07\/lb_terminator1.jpg\" \/> <img src=\"\/blog\/pics\/mar07\/lb_terminator2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It looks extremely similar, I nearly went down to test the race track :).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I found the hotel finally. It&#8217;s pretty far away from the conference, but it&#8217;s really nice (incl. free wireless) and the hotel + rental car is *much* cheaper than the conference hotel!<\/p>\n<p>My first talk on Monday went *really* nice and the room was completely packed and we had interesting questions\/discussions :). I&#8217;m looking forward to my second talk on Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some first impressions from my trip to the west coast. My ride to the airport (yeah, the driver carries my bag &#8211; he literally pulled it out of my hand *g*). the inside (huh): The weather in Long Beach was &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/03\/27\/long-beach-ca\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}