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Vienna's Through With Me
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May 06, 2004, 02:39 PM
This post is mostly just to break the silence. I know it's been a while, but I was busy with end-of-the-semester stuff, then for the past couple of weeks I was attending CHI 2004 in Vienna, Austria, then traveling around Austria and Prague in the Czech Republic. After getting rained on twice today and enduring a number of other misfortunes, I've taken the hint and given up on sightseeing to blow a few euro at an internet cafe.
I return tomorrow, at which point I hope to post some thoughts on the conference and other things. I was planning to do a full trip report like I did last year, but sadly, one of my bags was stolen in Prague along with all my notes from the conference. But I'll do what I can from memory.
To tide you over while you wait, here's some random thoughts and lessons from the trip:
- SIGCHI is still full of a bunch of researchers.
- Viennese and Prague folks like their meat, which makes it tough for a vegetarian. I ate a lot of bread here. Fortunately, it was very good bread.
- According to a qualitative observational ethnographic analysis I conducted while here, Prague girls are, on average, cuter than Viennese girls. You may want to keep this in mind if you're planning to relocate or take up a foreign language anytime soon.
- Don't walk away from your bag in Prague, even for 10 seconds (see above).
- German kezboards suck when zouäre an American trzing to write a blog post on one.
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