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Yesterday late evening, Jean-Baptiste and I arrived in NYC after about a 16 hours trip. Amazingly, he mentioned to me that we entered a train in the station close to our home....and then never went outside until we exited the 1 line subway at 116th street on Broadway Ave.:

• Transilien line U from la Verrière to La Défense
• RER line A to Châtelet-les Halles
• RER line B to Roissy CDG terminal 1 train station
• CDGVal to Terminal 1
• Aer Lingus A321 to Dublin airport
• Aer Lingus A330-300 to JFK
• JFK Air Train to Howard Station (admittedly the platform here is technically partly outside)
• MTA subway line A from Howard Station to 59th St.-Columbus Circle
• MTA subway line 1 to 116th St.-Columbia university

It's indeed quite typical to notice that, these days, you can travel 1/4 of the planet, using 9 different trnsportation systems and never go outside.

We made a quick appearance in the Hacklab yesterday, enough to say "hi" to a dozen of people around and mostlysee how things are organized.

Then bed, which is probably the best way to avoid jetlag.

This morning, I of course woke up quite early (Debian grandfathers, blah blah) and of course I went out running..:-)

The initial plan was to do a short enough run in Central Park. However, I managed to get partly lost and, indeed, after entering the Park in the NW corner, I managed to read Columbus circle...in the SW corner after wandering around the large alleys. So, my only choice was then to come back through the westernmost part of the Park back to Columbia..and thus ended up with a 13km run (for running junkies, the pace was 5'31"/km (8'52"/mile for local runners).

And now, I'm in the hacklab with JB (did I already say that I'm proud of this? Yes, dozens of times...OK...).

And they're waiting for me to go to lunch....so, end of this blog post..:)