Today I remembered to wear extra layers, 4 up top, 2 for the legs. I was still cold though. I think today was colder. I saw ice puddles. I also somehow managed to forget my gloves, so I walked around with my hands jammed into my coat pockets.
Started the day at the National Museum. saw fake animals. It was pretty underwhelming. Very traditional kind of museum, smelly and bland. Lots of rocks.
In contrast my next stop was the cubist museum. It was amazing. I like cubism. it gives the sense that everything can be deconstructed into base elements. Yet more then it’s parts bla bla. There was 3 floors of it. Small floors admittedly, but all great. I especially liked the cubist furniture.
Went and briefly stopped at the decorative arts museum. Thought about buying stuff from the store as gifts, but it was too expensive. Had coffee in the cafe, the guy there was cute.
Thought about map/reduce code. I realised I was thinking about it while half asleep last night.
Wandered over the river and when to the Kampa museum, modern stuff. Pretty cool. Nice park outside.
Next I went walking in the big park up the hill. Sat on a bench overlooking Prague for half an hour. Thought about Kakfa. What a myth he his. How impossible it is to imagine him living today. People are such a product of their time, whether or not their work transcends it or not.
There was a lot of people walking dogs in the park. Beagles everywhere. Labradors also popular. There was one beagle I kept seeing around after I’d walked back down. There was guy there throwing a stick down the hill, the dog would leap down the hill, then labour back up with his stick. I thought it was going to trip and roll all the way down.
Dropped into the Kafka museum’s cafe again. Had another really good double macchiato. Although it had a bit too much of the milk. It was sort of in between a small strong capaccino and a double macchiato. The cute girl wasn’t there this time which must be why.
Found some great Thai noodles. Beer. Cake. Elvis music. It wasn’t at all tacky from the Elvis though. I liked it.
Went to the Kino hoping to see Tokio!, but it only had czech subtitles. Which makes sense. I guess only the czech movies have english subtitles. English speakers have it so easy. There are tourists here from all over the world. The fallback language is always english. I’ve have french people asking me in english for directions. I watched Tokyo, in Japanese with Czech subtitles anyway. It was great. Occasionally confusing, but I got the gist of things. It was three separate shorts.
The first one was the best. I think it was about a girl that moved to Tokyo. Things didn’t go that great. Especially had trouble finding a flat. I liked the ending most, her boyfriend started doing ok in his work, but she was left behind sort of. No purpose. She started slowly turning into a wooden chair. Starting with the ribs. Eventually she could still be human briefly, but for the most part became a chair. Got herself taken home by a musician who ended up using her around his flat. She roamed around the flat doing stuff when he wasn’t in. He’d come home and find the chair sitting in the bath and such. She played around with his banjo. The end was him and 2 friend playing some great music together, with him sitting on the chair playing the banjo.
Back to the hostel, a few beers. I figured out how to make ssh work properly. Apparently some routers die with certain kinds of packets, or something. Anyway, if ssh stalls on you after it looks like it logged in properly, especially if you’re using public wifi, or at a hotel/hostel or something, try using:
ssh -o “ProxyCommand nc %h %p” <hostname>
To force a different kind of connection.
