Digital Wanderer

We live as long as we fly

Weekend getaway to Riga, part 3

Looks like I'm finally nearing the end. And this is despite writing about a short getaway. Looks like I need to somehow optimize my note-writing, and post only the most interesting stuff for you, otherwise you'll stop reading. I mean, I write for myself mostly, but sometimes, just like avva, I get writer's block, and it comes out like this:

So, on Saturday evening rk13 and I were hacking my cultist router from FON.

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Weekend Getaway to Riga, Part 3

I just got back from a little 53 km bike ride, and I have to head downtown soon, so I'll try to write everything up a bit quicker. Good thing my thoughts always move faster after working out, and it's generally easier.

By the way, I forgot to mention last time — when I arrived downtown, a bus tour guide mistook me for a foreigner and offered me a ride. When I saw the "bus tours" sign in English, I instinctively answered him "No, thanks". I hope he wasn't too disappointed. And one more thing I forgot — on the square in front of RTU, some young people were playing some kind of game, looked like a flashmob. Here's a photo.

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While I was looking into how to attach a backpack to the bike rack, drive Z ran out of space, and the program for downloading Wikipedia to my iPhone crashed. And drive Z, mind you, is 400 GB. As it turned out, Wii games were to blame—too many of them were lying around unpacked in the temporary folder.

In any case, during my trip (which I still hope to finish writing about)) I pulled a 1 TB drive out of the Riga server and will connect it soon—as soon as I get around to it.

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