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Turkey Berliner

Wooo! This was quite the day, or two. Mei’s ini­tial train caught on fire or some­thing so she never got on. Then some other trains were delayed. Then she FINALLY found a way to get to Berlin by 5:00 on Sat­ur­day. Too bad that was the day we were plan­ning on hav­ing Thanks­giv­ing din­ner. Mei’s mom […]

Posted 08 December 2010 † Matt Gill § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Euromold

An expo solely for mak­ing things the indus­trial way. Lots of molds, lasers and mechan­i­cal arms to see here. For me that got pretty old fast, then we got into what must have been the 3D printing/​​student hall. Now this is waaaaaay bet­ter. These guys had rigged an SLR to a Pico Pro­jec­tor and used it […]

Posted 06 December 2010 † Matt Gill § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

DAAP Eurotrip Review 2: Frankfurt, Germany

Yay, we’re back to the right side of the road! But now every­one speaks Ger­man, fair trade-​​​​off? Prob­a­bly, since a lot of Ger­mans speak decent Eng­lish. Frank­furt wins the prize for most inter­est­ing hotel loca­tion, right in the mid­dle of the red light dis­trict. Now while we stayed in Frank­furt our actual design-​​​​related stop was a little […]

Posted 04 November 2010 † Matt Gill § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Germany 1

I’m here, and I have no idea what any­one is say­ing unless they say yes/​​no hello/​​goodbye or thank you/you’re wel­come. Things that I’ve encoun­tered so far are grape­fruit scented cleaner, a com­plete lack of open wifi to “bor­row,” con­fus­ing out­lets that are meant only to pre­vent injury to chil­dren, döner(!) and a com­plete lack of what I was lead […]

Posted 28 September 2010 † Matt Gill § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: