folks last sunday, ivanka took filip and me flying! we took off in a cessna and toured around the bay, incl. san francisco, berkeley, stanford and everything in between! awesome. tomorrow, we’re flying out to toronto to the conference, it’s going to be really exciting! cu dudes klick on the link to view the cool [...]

folks, i’ve had a fun week: pascal, one of my old friends from eth was swinging by my place on his world trip. he stayed for 3 days, coming direct from fiji where it had obviously been much warmer than in beautiful silicon valley. anyway, the start worked out kind of well, i punctually picked [...]

hallihallo, finally, i get around to writing another post. a lot has happened since my last one: barack obama seems to be out of reach for hillary, it’s getting sunnier here, my car has not been driven yet and i’m working daily (i think i’m making progress, at leat). some time ago, there was the [...]

i’ve been promising you pictures for a long time, here’s a bunch: all pictures but the ‘granny’ were taken at rex’s farewell party at the lucas center and our place. the landscape was taken on hoover tower and shows thestanford campus – the second largest of its kind.

well, this weekend i used the caltrain for the first time. caltrain is the fastest connection on the public transportation system, say, between my place and sf. as somehow proud of the swiss public t. system i need to post a (unbiased) comparison here. it starts with the looks of the wagons and the locomotives.  [...]

last friday, a new big grocery store opened close to our place and it has nice features. first, it hosts a starbucks right next to the aisles, not just after the check-out points as, say, in kreuzlingen’s coop. hence the problem arises how to shop with your latte etc. in one hand – they designed [...]

hey it’s been two weeks or so since my last entry, sorry, but i’ve been up to so much! justyna came over and severin’s brother, marius, too. they happened to be visiting at the same time independently – similarly to severin’s and my coincidental moving into the same house. nice hosts as we are *rarr* [...]

hi, meanwhile, i’ve passed my written driver’s license test and am finally allowed to drive (temporarilly only – i need to pass a driving test, too!)! the preparation was as we know it from switzerland – a handbook plus sample tests. i think i mentioned it already in another post, but i understand that they [...]

g’day! i’ve been raving alot about my new home, i know, but this time i’m gonna share a, in my opinion ridiculou, americanism with you: i’m going to take my written driver’s licence exam! i’m telling you this is as annoying as it sounds. they have, probably veery slightly, different traffic rules from ours back [...]

it’s incredible, but there weren’t any manifests whatsoever neither in menlo park nor palo alto. if you compare this to what goes up back home, it’s just bad. not that the us of a were a very socialistic union, but there must be an active working class around here! i couldn’t find out why this [...]