Attended a Bootstrap.pl meeting in Warsaw, where me and Kugg from Forskningsavdelningen chatted about Hackerspaces in a couch on a stage. Hardware hackers presented their stuff, and everyone was kind and smart. After the meeting, one guy introduced himself as Tomek, and said “I’m an architect, and I want to help design packaging for your electronic devices.” Wonderful, wonderful. International creative collaborations.
Skipped going to the Warsaw Rising Museum. Sorry, Jason. I’ll be back in Warsaw soon, I think. When they have a hackerspace.
Bonus: Via Krzysztof, I got to see a designer of books from Netherlands talk about her work. It was a bit weird, but provocative (in short: unusable books). The museum of contemporary art in Warsaw is beautiful. Great books, too. Krzysztof lent me eighty zloty an R. Buckminster Fuller book. Thanks.
Saturday night beers on the town was interesting. Characters from Romper Stomper walked by every now and then, hammered and testosterone-crazed. Our host Marcin took care of us. We progressively switched bars to less loud ones.
Night. My taxi driver opted to just drop me off “anywhere” when it was clear to him that he was unable to find the address we’d agreed upon. Even after getting phone assistance. Got home very late. My cab driver to airport was trusting and helpful, though.
A bald Polish guy in his 60s totally pwn’d a line of people by walking up in front of the line. I pointed to the line, and he said a single Polish word, and shrugged, and kept on going to the counter. Swedes grumbled and shuffled, and I thought of it: social engineering. We got pwned.
You confirm my recent suspicions that the focus of interestingness in Europe has repositioned east to the Poland – Slovakia – Hungary – former-Yugoslavia corridor.