Here’s a view of the meetup point, shot from the direction of Scott’s Pub:
To get there, the easiest is to walk and take the elevator from Plateau du Saint Esprit down to Grund.
Note: this map is not definitive. We’ll probably do some detours and won’t stick to the blue highlight. If you happen to be late, it would be an idea to have an access to this map so I can tell you where to find us (or which number we are close to).
Here’s the map of the hike.
If you like, you can download the GPX file or view it on my sport tracker.
If you know me well enough, I expect you to be surprised by this post as I am not keen on meetings, but earlier this week I read an article about meetings and yeah, written by Sarah B. Weir. You should read it before proceeding to the following text.
This article is pleasant to read, isn’t it? If you were here with me, I would expect you to say “yeah!”.
I have to say that I admire those articles where authors manage to use simple English without dumbing their content down. I wish I could write finer content; I’ll keep trying until I can replace the word wish by will.
(Oh sorry), let me get back on track… In fact I’m happy to see the evolution of meetings from the (old) formal, stressful, useless and one-way communication moment into something more casual. As I earned a degree in physics, I usually try to find an explanation to everything and the the one I’ve found for this study is linked to social networks (e.g. +1).
However, according to the article, body language hadn’t been taken in account by the study; for instance if I say yeah (monotone with an extended a sound) or yeah (brief and raising tone), the meaning is opposite. But I doubt that people would say normally say a negative yeah and would remain silent instead. Also, I’m wondering how attendees in international and multicultural environments would react if I kept saying yeah: no matter what, I will try.
Had I had some spare time, I would have read the complete study, which isn’t list on Improbable Research, a Web site publishing all kind of useless research, and therefore won’t be a candidate for the Ig Nobel prize. Looks like it’s useful.
In my humble opinion, we should have meetings on a couch, share some food, or enjoy outdoors, while walking on an alameda to the restaurant. That’s an utopia. Yeah! Can I please grab a bite before the next meeting? No! That’s a dystopia.. Yeah!
I heard the thunder so I decided to test the Triggertrap device. I love the timelapse acceleration effect 😉
Feel free to download, use, transform or alter this.
I don’t like to complain and I know that won’t change anything, but we’re only a step away from summer and this weather is a bitch and has been horrific for three quarters.
I usually try to repeat to myself that there’s no such thing as bad weather… but it’s getting hard to positive after having (almost) daily cold showers for weeks, especially when even my underwear was soaking. I need more imagination to find something positive about the weather.
This week I saw frost for the first time since April and that wasn’t nice for cycling as I couldn’t find my winter gloves and the growing plants in the backyard are just dying, now my hands are chapped and the tomatoes plants dead.
Despite this weather, I did some outdoor activities every day wearing a pair of winter boots, some waterproof trousers, a waterproof poncho, a pair of gloves, a fluffy jumper and a scarf isn’t funny anymore. Even on a mountain bike, riding in the forest feels more like a dangerous expedition than having some fun and this will take weeks after the end of this bad weather to improve; I have no idea how I will survive without going to the woods for such a long time! Here are some pictures of my latest hard slogs:
Apparently, it’s not going to ameliorate in the near future as Bad weather in Western Europe likely to continue into June. I’ve been checking daily (when not hourly) the weather forecast for weeks and it always gets worse and I think I’m going crazy because each time they forecast lower temperatures (sometimes below the minimum for a century) and a lot of rain, wind, hail, flooding, and no sunlight. Also, when we reached 10 degrees outside, I had the chance to witness a thunderstorm.
Found on Facebook, the evolution of the temperature forecast on May 25 since 2009:
If this global warming thing exists, there must be a local ice age here… Please stop air conditioners outside! But there’s something positive, I didn’t see any ticks in the forest this year.