{"id":1426,"date":"2013-06-13T21:13:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T02:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2013-07-22T10:11:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T15:11:43","slug":"getting-to-philedalphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/?p=1426","title":{"rendered":"Getting to Philedalphia"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Deleware
\nIn my hotel room in Philly in front of the mirror.<\/div>\n

In a weak moment of last year I somehow agreed to speak to the MIT Alumni Club in Philadelphia. Not that I do not usually very much enjoy such events, but I am usually that busy that it really always comes at a moment where I should be doing something else. And as usual even knowing long before I was not really prepared for it and it gets worse, when the day came bad weather hit the east coast and now I am sitting at Logan waiting for my departure. The 12:00 flight is leaving now at around 14:15 and the 12:30 is scheduled for 14:40… I am not even standby on the 12:00 flight and on a huge list for the 12:30 flight that is supposed to leave soon afterwards. The plane of the 12:00 flight is already at the gate. If the captain gives permission (assuming Philadelphia is open enough) we might be boarding soon….<\/p>\n

It turns out all went perfectly well. The captain gave permission, there were spots even beyond the standby list and I got out on the first flight pretty much at the time of my original flight and I arrived at 15:58 in Philadelphia, even a few minutes before planned. Once arrived I figured that the Marriot and the Renaissance Hotels are not the same and that nobody had made a reservation. I had assumed the Wilkens (my hosts) had done it and they assumed I had taken care of the reservation myself as I did for the flight. Anyway, of course there was room and I am sitting here, using the expensive network and will soon take a shower and review my talk to be ready for tonight. I think it will be fun.<\/p>\n

The talk went very well, I had a ton of questions and only few people blinking with sleepy eyes. It was fun and time and again the lesson is, you need to do this more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my hotel room in Philly in front of the mirror. In a weak moment of last year I somehow agreed to speak to the MIT Alumni Club in Philadelphia. Not that I do not usually very much enjoy such events, but I am usually that busy that it really always comes at a moment … <\/p>\n

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