This weekend I’m gonna visit LibrePlanet, which I’m very excited about. It was a very spontaneous trip, but as it’s not too far away from NYC, it’s doable.

The bus towards Boston took around 5 hours, a bit less even. I wanted to work on the bus, but the road was kind of band and I got tired, so I just watched some talks and other things. For example I trained to type faster. Some different experiences at RC made me want to type faster. Getting out text is a good skill, and typing without thinking too much is definitely a part of it. You can just braindump.

Arriving in Boston was very nice. My first impression of the city was through some descriptions of wikitravel on the bus. Some explanations made me smile. For example:

While other American cities have their streets laid out in a grid […], the modern streets of Boston are a twisty and seemingly incomprehensible maze. […] In this way, Boston is more similar to old European cities.

My conclusion after walking a bit through the city: I’ve been missing this Europe way. I find grid layout cities pretty convenient for not getting lost (it’s still possible!), but they’re kind of uninteresting and somehow depressing.

The evening I spent at the FSF office. I’m not sure how to summarize this, but it was a nice atmosphere. Lot’s of inspiring people. For dinner I headed out with Sergio to find some low budget place in Chinatown. We found some, which was actually what you would think of low budget chinese food (at least what I think). We got a lot. We spent two hours finishing the food, because it was so much.

Besides that we had a really good conversation. Sergio had some good summaries for what is going on in the world. I’ll spare you the details, because I have to sleep now, but we touched everything from WW2 to the revolutionary potential of Bitcoin. The thing I enjoyed about this was, that it was beyond smalltalk, it felt real.