Torsten Hoefler’s blog

… are really cool! They have a “carpool lane”. Only cars with two or more people can drive on this lane, so, in the US, it’s usually empty . But it’s a great idea! We should do that too.

They also have two-story freeways . Probably a big waste of money:

Or even more:

Wow, LBL and Bereley is really cool. It’s basically at a large mountain. You can see San Francisco really well and the nature is great. I guess it’s really expensive . My talk went very good and the listeners were very interested (we had many discussions).
Here the view from the Lab to San Francisco:

I’m [...]

Ah, I made it to San Jose, the fligth was rather ok (Northwest), and the
hotel that Cisco booked for me is really great (Hyatt, ridiculously
expensive). The breakfast is awesome (you have people who cook you
omeletts on demand ). I also have a very nice rental, a Ford Fusion
with MP3 player and a nice car [...]

Oh man, the big and crazy trip starts … I’ll leave tomorrow for San Jose, California to give a Nerd Lunch talk at the headquarter of Cisco Systems, a talk at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, another talk at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab and to attend The Hot Interconnects Conference. After that I’ll leave to [...]

80000 people died instantly. Mostly civilians. Here some thoughtful links:

Anniversary in Hiroshima 
Photos
today’s mightiest weapons
another story
the Manhattan Project

… that’s what I should think then: