Mane

Sunnuntai 8.11.2009 klo 21.56 Matti has slept 10 hours since Thursday morning. And still awake, reading, and somewhat sane. Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Lauantai 7.11.2009 klo 0.57 Matti it is raining. The Pacific was hiding in fog. Came back to downtown for a late lunch of hearty fish stew in the Ferry building. klo 8.08 Matti in Palo Alto. Drinking wine, for a change. Flight via NYC and London to Finland leaving in 10 hours. It is a long way and even further away than Tipperary. Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Perjantai 6.11.2009 klo 0.23 Matti quelle surprise: it is beer o'clock in San Francisco! klo 2.18 @ Reds java house with fish&chips and a pitcher of Anchor Steam. klo 3.55 Matti and they closed the bar at Reds. I just had to take a tram and trolley bus to Toronado. Green lakes ale (organic) is still rather good. klo 10.37 Matti tells that Jello Biafra is still very much alive, kicking, and screaming. His new band is quite OK and can also play 'California überalles' very well. klo 20.29 Matti instead of beer o'clock it is now public transit o'clock. Will take a bus to the Golden Gate and from there south by the Pacific. Later, Caltrain to Palo Alto. Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Torstai 5.11.2009 klo 4.07 Matti the botanical garden of UC Berkeley has asthonishing collection of succulent plants. Certainly worth the 30-minute uphill walk from the nearest BART station. klo 19.04 Matti oh well. Only two days left in SF. It is tough call: will I spend the afternoon at Reds or at Toronado? klo 22.06 Matti is sure that sealions are laughing at humans laughing at them. Symbiotic hilarity! Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Keskiviikko 4.11.2009 klo 2.30 Matti and beer o'clock was today 4.30pm: Firestone-Walker's "Unfiltered DBA" @ Toronado. Life certainly does not suck. klo 2.51 Matti although I had one beer with seafood salad at Swan Oyster Depot at noon. The food was exceptionally good and simple: just shrimps, crab, praws and iceberg salad. beer as usual. klo 3.37 Matti recommends Toronado @ SF to every beer lover. If there is a heaven, it must have a pub like this with dozens microbrewed IPAs etc. now, go and reserve a two week vacation and flights to SF. Right now! klo 16.59 Matti is about to drive over the Golden Gate bridge to see the redwood trees. klo 19.24 Matti called off the car trip to Muir Woods. Will take BART to Berkeley instead. Not feeling alert enough for operating machinery. Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Tiistai 3.11.2009 klo 1.50 Matti beer o'clock is already gone and I am still thirsty! klo 3.53 & healthy living in Palo Alto: non-fat mocha smoothie @ University Cafe. klo 9.52 Matti took the Caltrain and a cable car back from Palo Alto to Mason Street. Transit systems are living museums of technology here. All of them. klo 10.43 Matti sea lions are barking so loud that I have to close the window to get some sleep. klo 17.50 Matti is about to drink the afternoon away at some microbrewery pub. Amzing beers here in San Francisco. klo 23.54 @ SFMOMA, watching sculptures and people. it is the annual gratis day; rather varied crowd. Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Maanantai 2.11.2009 klo 8.11 Matti thet say that sea lions are intelligent. They surely do not behave intelligently. klo 17.56 Matti today: Alcatraz, beer o'clock, Palo Alto. Travelling by and in order: Tram, ferry, ferry, tram, tram, train, tram, tram + walking a lot. Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Sunnuntai 1.11.2009 klo 19.10 Matti will spend this Sunday by visiting botanical gardens in San Francisco and Berkeley. Very nice weather: 18C, sunny, not windy, no fog. But first eggs Florentine with smoked wild salmon and a blueberry muffin and lots of coffee. klo 19.36 Matti there is a dog fight in this cafeteria. Shall we roast the loser? klo 22.47 Matti and now it is beer o'clock in San Francisco. At Toronado, drinking "Blind pig IPA" by Russian River brewery. Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Lauantai 31.10.2009 klo 9.21 Matti is back from the wedding in San Jose and an excellent dinner in Palo Alto. I am very Happy on Kumar's behalf. klo 9.22 Matti is back from the wedding in San Jose and excellent dinner in Palo Alto. I am very Happy on Kumar's behalf. klo 23.01 Matti is drinking Anchor Steam beer at Reds java house in SF. wathing seals and pelicans play and fish in the sea, listening to 20s jazz, enjoying sun and light breeze. Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Perjantai 30.10.2009 klo 5.19 Matti why is that when I walk down the streets in San Francisco, the hippies nod their heads? klo 16.34 Matti will attend an American civil wedding ceremony in San Jose today. Before that he must comb and wash his hair! Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Torstai 29.10.2009 klo 3.36 Matti arrived in San Francisco after travellling 78 hours. Amtrak took me all the way from NYC to my hotel in SF. Good service. klo 10.01 Matti ok. I will now have 8 days to spend in SF. Any ideas? In addition to good food, idlingg, railroad museum, Kumar's wedding, and beer drinking. klo 20.34 Matti well, next things is to buy a suit, bring it back to the hotel and then go for a beer at Reds Java House. Maybe there is time to visit a museum as well. klo 21.58 Matti now I got it. I will take the tram to the Pacific Ocean. That way I have travelled by rail from Montauk (Long Island, Atlantic) to Pacific. Highly recommendable. Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Sunnuntai 25.10.2009 klo 0.23 Matti taking it easy in NYC. Washing laundry, getting ready for the train ride to Chicago and San Francisco (Emeryville in Oakland, to be precise). Nothing much happening today. Days like these are one reason why I like travelling so much. klo 3.34 Matti when hungry, must go out even when it is raining and rather windy. All the way to the Japanese. klo 14.57 Matti is now ready for the great train trip from New York to San Francisco via Chicago. The train leaves in 6 hours and will arrive in California some 72 hours later. Should be interesting. Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Lauantai 24.10.2009 klo 21.50 Matti ah, back in rainy New York. For some reason, I feel more at home here than I felt in Boston. After a spicy lunch in Great Sichuan, I can hardly wait for Japanese dinner. And a lots of cheap beer. klo 22.27 Matti oh my: now there is national flu emergency here in the USA. No symptoms in my body. Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Perjantai 23.10.2009 klo 0.37 Matti ok, there was one presentation with lots of new info today. Now, off to a dinner Hyatt Regency, Cambridge. klo 3.24 Matti an acute wave of puritanism has taken over MIT. The confence dinner included only two drinks. And they did not even serve proper drinks. Bummer. klo 17.33 Matti is waiting for demi-god Obama to land in MIT and share his wisdom. Fortunately we will get hearthy lunch before that. Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Torstai 22.10.2009 klo 15.34 Matti getting his MIT tuition back one beer at a time. klo 19.44 Matti listening to presentations on health care and energy in MIT Systems Thinking conference. Interesting, but not really anything new. Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Keskiviikko 21.10.2009 klo 0.57 Matti these Americans are fucking insane: it is 30C in all cafes, shops, restaurants, and buses. In subway, 35C. Talk about climate change. klo 18.40 Matti is happy to find that nobody has been able to break his and Kumar's record of 11 courses per semester (of SDM program) at MIT. Nobody has even dared to try! Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Tiistai 20.10.2009 klo 2.22 Matti wonders how there can be so many parked cars and so few people? From the train I could many times see 500 cars before a single (walking/standing) person. Where were they? Really scary. Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Maanantai 19.10.2009 klo 6.22 Matti feels at home in NYC. As does also in Boston, Venica, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Somewhat, but less in London and Paris. klo 13.23 Matti it is time to visit Babylon by train and continue further all the way to Bay Shore. klo 14.19 Matti changed destination: now about to visit Montauk, 3.5h from NYC. I expect to find seafood restaurant there... Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Sunnuntai 18.10.2009 klo 5.21 Matti visited a secret bar with Fernando. Excellent drinks. Also tried to get in another, but it was full. To get to the other one: one must enter a phonebooth in a hot dog place, pick up the receiver, place a call and with luck a door opens. We had luck: the door opened when I was leaning at it, but the secret bar was full. In a large city, even secrets are known by many. klo 13.58 Matti woke up 5 am. It will be rainy, windy and cold here today. Thus it is either MOMA or a few long train rides before a semi-secret gourmet dinner performance. This city is full of surprises. klo 23.34 Matti no rain anymore. Need coffee. Lots of coffee. Jets are lagging. Lacking coffee. And cakes. Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.

Lauantai 17.10.2009 klo 20.21 Matti just arrived in Manhattan, NYC, after spending a restless night in some airport hotel in a place from which one cannot even get a taxi, not to speak of walking. klo 21.52 Matti finds NYC way too hot. Sweaty place. Inside shops, cafes it is surely +25C. Too hot even in summer clothes. Outside +4C, with summer clothes very refreshing. It would be trivial for the USA to cut down energy consumption by 50%, even without any effect on comfort or quality of life. Created by Claude from Mane's Facebook posts.