still on the road

In fact, I enjoy the suitcase lifestyle of the visiting speaker. The event last night in London was great fun, and should soon be available both in audio and video format on the web.

Today I’m up in Milton Keynes at the Open University, speaking to the Geography Department here.

The only downside of last night’s talk was an obnoxious carload of people that kept circling past the lecture room. Turned out to be one of those hummersines, a combination of the very bad limousine with the execrable Hummer, one of the most detestable objects ever fabricated by humans.

(One of the most viscerally angering things I ever saw was a music-blaring Hummer, with California license plates, driving rudely through the streets of Vilnius freakin’ Lithuania. Taking your Hummer from L.A. to the Baltics does not make the world a better place.)

More later, busy days coming up, including the festivities on the coast this weekend.