After a long break I went to a conference at the end of something. As a person in a supersymmetry unbelieving course I went to a conference here of that, and as a person with wild fart to travel around the world came to a conference ... Germany. Specifically to Bonn. To make it more fun, three years ago it was at the conference SUSY and also in Germany ... Well, it happens. Piece of the world will visit again :-)
It may loose some reflection:
Laptop
the last week I have a new laptop and just check it in "battle conditions". Well, I must say that works great. Yesterday stood on the battery throughout the day, ie from 9:30 to 18:00, with breaks for lunch and coffee-break'i. Realistically probably 7 + hours non-stop work on wirelessie, with an open VNC to CERN and Opera. Bomba! A resolution of 1920x1080 at 13 'is to work top notch!
Hotel
I found a hotel so you do not have to combine with public transport - ~ 20 minutes on foot to reach my university lectures where they are. Impression - pretty cool. Nice room, wireless works (three years ago in Karlsrhue was not internet in the room, unless ... Dial-up), good breakfast. The best breakfasts that I remember it was probably in Morocco, but it was a class by itself. Here, pretty cool.
Germany
What you can for 3 days with a bit of reach to do the impression of staying in the German city ...? You can refer to the stereotypes - sausages, giving the woman a beer Helga, the streets full of ugly German cars ... The car in total agree, the rest did not check. Interestingly, more than half as seen by me is Peugeot cabriolets. In general, full of convertibles, no but maybe I am now biased in this respect ... :-)
Conference organization
in total relax, but no revelations. I mean - everything works but the food on the coffee-breakach some poor (the same cookies every day), lunches you buy yourself. Wasted food at the canteen, at least for me. Well, but cool. This may at the end of the picture only what I did - a rainbow of Bonn, the view from the plane shortly before take-off:
