{"id":285,"date":"2006-03-14T00:44:19","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T07:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2011-12-30T17:55:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T00:55:27","slug":"sleepless-in-salzburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/14\/sleepless-in-salzburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepless in Salzburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Hotel window, 3am\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/43\/112338880_c82eed766e_m.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel window, 3am\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><br \/>\nBecause I work at home most of the time, I forget what going to an office is like. Being in this modern glass box isn&#8217;t really much different than being in any modern glass box &#8211; there&#8217;s computer hardware and wires everywhere, tan cubes full of technology nerds in cool shoes, a messy kitchen&#8230; we have real glasses and coffee cups and a dishwasher,and an espresso machine -\u00c2\u00a0 but no fridge full of soda. I&#8217;m waiting for a computer, for a log in, for network access, but forging ahead with the help of piles of printed docs. So far, no big surprises. I&#8217;m not expecting that feeling to last, but I&#8217;m hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>My hotel is a renovated old gutshof &#8211; big farm house. Last night just after I checked in the lobby filled to bursting with Italian students, a group on their way to or from somewhere. They chattered like birds in the hallway outside my room but I feel asleep anyway and woke up in the darkness of night to see new snow.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny to be here in the big glass box that&#8217;s the office after having breakfast in the wood-paneled dining room at the hotel. The place is decorated with all the farmhouse antiques that are so typical for here &#8211; and now, three minutes later &#8211; it&#8217;s all high tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I work at home most of the time, I forget what going to an office is like. Being in this modern glass box isn&#8217;t really much different than being in any modern glass box &#8211; there&#8217;s computer hardware and wires everywhere, tan cubes full of technology nerds in cool shoes, a messy kitchen&#8230; we &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Sleepless in Salzburg\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/14\/sleepless-in-salzburg\/#more-285\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sleepless in Salzburg\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austria","category-working","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5799,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/5799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}