I swore I would get caught up, and by god, I intend to get caught up even if I have to keep writing all night (it’s currently 4:41 am and I’m in Zagreb, Croatia). After HAIP, I got a ride from a girl I’d been couchsurfing with to Koper, which is one of the coastal […]
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Pula 2
December 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Croatia, Hacker culture, Photos
Tuesday, I killed more time in Pula. I got coffee at a cafe frequented by James Joyce when he lived in Pula in the early 1900s.
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Two weeks in two minutes
December 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Austria, Croatia, Hacker culture, Hungary, Photos, Poland, Travel
Agh, ok, I really really need to get caught up so I can actually post about what I’m doing as I’m doing it. So I’m going to blow through this stuff really quickly. Apologies. Zagreb was cool, much livelier than Pula. The group at MaMa was really awesome. They are very much less ideological than […]
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Some of the EtOH-bots from Robotexotica
December 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Austria, Hacker culture, Photos
Roboexotica is fantastic. There are a lot of really interesting, creative robot designs, and most of them pour a pretty good, strong cocktail as well. Here’s a sampling of a few of the bots. I’m going to try to get better photographs of the others and I’ll probably post some sort of all-bot roundup later. […]
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More from Roboexotica
December 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Austria, Hacker culture, Photos, Tech-art
There were a lot of robots at Roboexotica, and I didn’t have a chance to get good photos of all of them, or the alcohol tolerance to sample all of their creations, but here’s some more. This is RoboVox, a giant statue of a robot standing outside the gallery where Roboexotica is being held. I […]
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