So, I found out there is a BarCamp in Berlin coming up this weekend… And I decided to go. I want to present so I have to get my shit together. It seems like it will be a little more focused than the BarCampBlock in Palo Alto… So I’m not sure how a session on the impact of lolcats would go over. I don’t think any other low level hackery would fly either.

This leaves me with a couple options. One of them includes iPhone stuff, such as setting up the llvm-gcc crosscompiler in Linux, maybe an intro to UIKit, or something else.

The other idea I have involves pylons. I’m pretty familiar with the basics, but I think it would be nice to shed some light that Rails and Django aren’t the only MVC web frameworks out there.I really hope to get a more global perspective of what’s going on while I’m there an meet a bunch of new people.

Soo… I’ve been super busy for the last month or so. I drove across country without a hitch (aside from getting cut off and hit by a guy somewhere in the midwest, but he took responsibility). Then, I flew to Berlin, stayed there for 5 days, and stayed 4 days in Munich for Oktoberfest. Oktoberfest was amazing. So much good beer, good people, crazy people. It was cool.

Then I took the train to Osnabrück where I am studying now.  It’s been crazy. My German is terrible though, but everybody I live with speaks English.  That’s not helping me learn though, unfortunately.  I’m also struggling to learn vocabulary.

The AI class I am taking is a bit difficult too.  It’s in Prolog.  Prolog is not very fun.  Not fun at all.  I’d take lisp or scheme any day over prolog.

Osnabrück is very similar to Rochester as far as the weather goes so far.  It’s cloudy or rainy and cold and windy.  I heard the winters don’t get as harsh though, but it will still be rainy.  I’m definitely not looking forward to the winters.  We’re really close to a lot of cool cities though like Münster and Amsterdam.  Amsterdam is a really awesome city.  All the buildings are old and kind of crooked.  And the roads are really narrow.  It’s quite charming.