After Grand Canyon we drove all the way to Kingman, AZ. On day 4 of the roadtrip the Prius rolled back west via Barstow, Victoville, San Bernardino, and towards the end a slow drive through a gigantic LA with both very poor neighborhoods and very rich ones, plus everything in between. The contrast between all the wilderness/desert [...]
Pictures from day 3 of the roadtrip: http://picasaweb.google.com/anders.e.e.wallin/GrandCanyon#
Picked up an almost brand new 2010 Prius (only 6000 miles on the odometer) at Hertz today, and headed east towards Yosemite National Park. 421.3 miles at an average speed of 45 mph and consumption of 49.8 mpg. That’s 678 km and 4.72 l/100 km in metric.
Yesterday was rainy, and the forecast for tomorrow is wet too, so when the sun came out today we saw it as an opportunity to go see the Coit Tower.
I’m in San Diego for the SPIE Optics & Photonics meeting. More specifically Kishan Dholakia and Gabe Spaldning put together the Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation IV conference, where I was the last (but not least?) speaker. Overall the meeting has a dual character with a lot of technical content (like lens- or mechanics-design, CCD/CMOS [...]
I spent four days in Austin, Texas, at NIWeek. On the plane down from Chicago I met some friendly Austin locals who made a (long!) list of things for me to do and see. With the conference taking up most time, and the hot weather, which made walking around town a warm experience, I only [...]
28 skippers from three Nordic countries came together at Malmoya/NMS (wikimapia.org rocks! I challenge all my readers to add at least one place!) for 8 races on Friday in no2 rig conditions and light rain and continued on Saturday for 6 more races in a strong wind with no3 rig. Arriving in Oslo on 17. [...]
The 2007 Finnish Physics Days were held in Tallinn over the weekend. Click the image for a full-size jpeg.
The 51st annual meeting of the Biophysical Society was held in Baltimore, Maryland, 3-7 March 2007. The National Aquarium in Baltimore was a nice place to visit just before I flew home.
This week I presented a poster at the ESF Trends in Optical Micromanipulation conference held at the Obergurgl university center in Austria. A really good, focused conference! Between all the talks, poster sessions, meals, and skiing I didn’t have very much time or inspiration for photography, so the only good picture is this one which [...]