Wed, 28 Jan 2009
Gong Hey Fat Choi
After having met with Gunnar at Cuisine Bangkok and Cafe Myriade, I was invited to join a Chinese New Year dinner in chinatown. After nine dishes including chicken intestites and legs, 'normal' chicken, pidgeon, lamb soup with fresh water cress and duck soup, I needed a walk before going to bed. I decided to go from Place des Arts to McGill station through the underground city to prove that this passage does is not just a myth. It took me about half an hour to get from the northwestern entrance of Place des Arts to Station Bonaventure. From there I took the metro home, and tonight I walked the rest of the passage, which is pretty straightforward through the central station and the Eaton center. Walking peacefully through these dead business complexes and malls at night, encountering only security personnel every once in a while and trying to figure out the is something you should not miss (Sunday after 10pm is good, they close up around 11pm). My Soundtrack: Anthony Rother - My Name Is Beuys Von Telekraft, especially 'Geomatrix (Part 1-10)'. There are some maps, but for finding your way down there I would stick to the symbolic map you can find in most major waypoints.
posted at: 03:56 | tags: | path: /montreal | permanent link to this entry | 0 comments | Linse visited me with her new D300, and we discovered Montreal a second time. Finally visited Cafe Myriade- Lukas pointed me to this and they really do the best coffe in town. I am spoiled now. I moved to my new place on Drolet and Mont Royal We finally got internet at home, but only the slowest plan from Videotron: 600/128 Kbit - and 2 Gb transfer limit! I realized that I am addicted to high bandwith low latency internet and that I took german internet plans for granted. One evening spend on soup and alike with linse already amounted to over 500 Mb. At least there is free internet at most cafes (except Starbucks- I wonder why anyone would go there), many (150) participate at Ile sans fil - is there something like this in Germany? Sun, 18 Jan 2009
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Tue, 09 Dec 2008
Bagels in Space
Winter ist
da! Und wie: -18 Grad Celsius sagt das
Thermometer- dabei knallender Sonnenschein und fast kein Wind- also nicht so schlimm wie
es sein koennte. Gestern hat es auch
zum ersten Mal geschneit. Die mitgebrachte Kleidung hat sich bisher als ausreichend herausgestellt, einzig
eine Maske fuers Gesicht werde ich bei
Wind wohl noch kaufen :)
Heute Mittag war ich mit Nicolas im Eaton-Center-Food-Court,
danach einen Espresso Macchiato (mit
Latte Art) in der Downtown-Filiale von Art
Java - die sich direkt in der Naehe des McGill
Campus befindet (oh oh, schon mein dritter Besuch nach zweien am Wochendende in der anderen Filiale). Am
Wochenende habe ich mich die meiste Zeit im
Plateau und im
Mile-End
rumgetrieben, versucht recherchierte
Laeden zu finden und andere entdeckt. Ich war im Café Olympico und
in den verschiedenen Bagel-Shops.
Es gibt unzaehlige Cafés und
Second-Hand-Buecherlaeden hier, und ich habe mir Cryptonomicron gekauft um es diesmal wirklich durchzulesen.
Nachdem ich eine moegliche zukuenftige
Bude (die momentane hab ich nur fuer Dezember) besucht habe, hab ich meinen ersten Film entwickeln lassen - am
Sonntag, in einer Stunde, ich konnte
ihn noch um 17h abholen UND die Scans haben eine hohe Aufloesung. Und schliesslich: meine Versuche im
Franzoesisch-Sprechen werden immer
oefter auch beantwortet- wenn man zoegert oder nachfragt, wird sofort auf Englisch umgeschaltet und man hat seine
Chance vertan.
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Sat, 06 Dec 2008
Weather, Food + Internet
Weather: After my first day to the university I immediately started feeling a cold coming up- seems the climate is really something to adapt to. The first days were cloudy and much like the weather back in Bielefeld, but today we had blue sky, with temperatures falling below zero again and a bit of snow falling on the way home.
Food: At lunchtime, I had to face the problem of getting food in the University for the first time- the on-campus food is apparently really bad and everyone brings their own food or goes to a restaurant. On Wednesdays (my first day), the SRL group orders Thai food from "Cuisine Bangkok" (yum!). The only one really nearby is a Libanese fast food shop, so I went there and had couscous with vegetables- yum. This will burn my money fast, I fear.
Internet: The long way home:
From the university (ssh feels sluggish)
traceroute to xxx.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (129.70.133.xx), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 142.157.xx.x (142.157.xx.x) 1.632 ms 1.824 ms 1.963 ms 2 132.216.xxx.xx (132.216.xxx.xx) 2.972 ms 3.312 ms 3.569 ms 3 mcgill-gw-canet.risq.net (206.167.128.49) 3.897 ms 4.189 ms 5.049 ms 4 mcgill-canet.dmtrl-rq.risq.net (132.202.32.89) 5.065 ms 5.294 ms 5.361 ms 5 c4.risq.net (132.202.80.50) 5.586 ms 6.065 ms 6.326 ms 6 c4-mon01.canet4.net (205.189.32.226) 6.535 ms 1.758 ms 2.580 ms 7 c4-tor01.canet4.net (205.189.32.17) 26.264 ms 26.880 ms 27.057 ms 8 canarie.rt1.nyc.us.geant2.net (62.40.124.221) 114.782 ms 114.905 ms 115.462 ms 9 so-6-2-0.rt1.fra.de.geant2.net (62.40.112.57) 115.594 ms 116.340 ms 116.376 ms 10 dfn-gw.rt1.fra.de.geant2.net (62.40.124.34) 125.919 ms 125.977 ms 126.218 ms 11 zr-han1-te0-7-0-5.x-win.dfn.de (188.1.145.125) 138.579 ms 138.631 ms 139.141 ms 12 xr-bie1-te2-1.x-win.dfn.de (188.1.145.10) 139.098 ms 136.642 ms 138.524 ms 13 kr-uni-bielefeld.x-win.dfn.de (188.1.86.210) 137.632 ms 135.518 ms 136.193 ms 14 * * * 15 * * * 16 xxx.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (129.70.133.xx) 137.347 ms 141.863 ms 142.005 ms
From home
traceroute to xxx.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (129.70.133.xx), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 7.059 ms 7.432 ms 8.190 ms 2 bas16-montreal02_lo0_SYMP.net.bell.ca (64.230.197.43) 16.117 ms 16.859 ms 17.829 ms 3 dis23-montreal02_GE_7_8.net.bell.ca (64.230.171.249) 20.324 ms 20.729 ms 21.737 ms 4 core4-montreal02_gig12-2.net.bell.ca (64.230.170.137) 22.243 ms 23.002 ms 24.827 ms 5 core2-newyork83_pos8-0-0_core.net.bell.ca (64.230.207.154) 34.375 ms 37.204 ms 38.327 ms 6 bx4-newyork83_pos_4_0_0.net.bell.ca (64.230.187.22) 40.009 ms 20.865 ms 19.837 ms 7 Telia-bx3-newyork83.net.bell.ca (64.230.187.2) 23.163 ms 23.529 ms 24.659 ms 8 nyk-bb2-link.telia.net (213.248.83.65) 25.611 ms 28.400 ms 29.065 ms 9 ldn-bb2-pos7-1-0.telia.net (213.248.65.93) 101.590 ms 102.168 ms ldn-bb1-link.telia.net (80.91.249.248) 106.167 ms 10 hbg-bb1-link.telia.net (80.91.250.220) 122.234 ms hbg-bb2-link.telia.net (80.91.254.218) 123.065 ms 124.667 ms 11 hbg-b2-link.telia.net (80.91.251.78) 127.837 ms 129.777 ms 130.910 ms 12 dante-116543-hbg-b2-c.telia.net (213.248.69.34) 119.789 ms 111.598 ms 111.753 ms 13 zr-han1-te0-7-0-0.x-win.dfn.de (188.1.145.209) 119.150 ms 120.153 ms 119.472 ms 14 xr-bie1-te2-1.x-win.dfn.de (188.1.145.10) 124.136 ms 117.066 ms 118.777 ms 15 kr-uni-bielefeld.x-win.dfn.de (188.1.86.210) 122.689 ms 124.579 ms 124.156 ms 16 * * * 17 * * * 18 xxx.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (129.70.133.xx) 118.123 ms 121.656 ms 130.717 ms
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008
Arrived in Montreal
I arrived in Montreal on Monday. I am here for a research stay at the shared reality lab until the end of February. I will be getting to know the different projects of the group and decide on the topic of my diploma thesis. If you are in Montreal or have any hints on what to visit, where to drink coffee etc. please contact me!
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