Two things that Davis is most known for, are it’s liberalism and bicycles.  Plus Davis is a college town, with the university the biggest employer, so the average education level is very high. Also,

I came to Reno for a two-month “help out”. Meaning that while EPI-USE was short in resources I will fill-in, but during the two months they will find a new resource to take over on the project.

At

Nou ja, na 'n dag se ophoud het ons toe eers so 10:00nm Donderdag aand gearriveer. Ons het baie lekker gevlieg in die Boeiing 747-400, wat 377 passasiers neem, maar nie vol was nie. Met die opstyg

Nothing went as planned, we were late for our flight to Schiphol, Amsterdam, luckily the airline (EasyJet) was prepared to put us on a later flight. 

Our original plan was to walk the 3 kilometers

Ben had the good fortune of having his birthday party at a Chinese Karaoke Restaurant.  It was mostly people from work, and at first the outing must sound really kitsch, which it was, but once the