Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 12:27:52 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: Re: .forward

oh, so you are so there,
sounds .. wonderfully weird,

there was kids from B. 
attending the youth thing
we had at the Inet, Eric is
a son of some famous net-
processor there and his friend
Simon was a unix-freak as well.

we were in the car museum with
the ferraris and lambourghinis
plus whatever shiny cars with
the founders of the internet, sun
microsystems and everything, took
some pictures as well but mostly
babbled and drank alcohol.

cisco evening made us drunk the
very first night last monday already.

i was, actually am still, with two
finnish friends who came there. we
just arrived in helsinki yesterday,
will work here and head up north home
to oulu then. 

the session in geneva was a success,
the tcp/ip pioneer vint cerf had almost
tears in his eyes when i was making the
introduction and the panel discussion
was quite heated including the audience.
funny.

before i was afraid that nothing important
would be said but in the end i felt complete.
even my "computer", the book i showed you,
was a wonderfully contradictory interest and
an-item for thought-provoking for the crowd.

in the end we did manage to see some mountains
and breath some air up there although the 
conference took most of the week. there was
some clubs and squat-parties as well, the club
was latino-house night and there were brazilian
goddesses for my so-far .fi-only friends to
wonder about and the squat-thing was pretty chill,
they hade an Otaku room there and prices were
for once unlike Geneva.

UN people were all around and invited us to 
Portugal and wherever, i probably can't go now
but perhaps some time. Swiss press covered us
in French.

these are my first moments in finland. my friend
Heikki lives here in Helsinki doing the same
non-military service i did before him. the house 
is close to the place where i did parachuting -
the view is a genuine countryside-look. i can't
even imagine what the center, where i used to live,
and home up north will be like but start living
it now.

thanks for the breath from there, came just the
right moment. 

~