I got the high-speed wireless networking at my hotel here in Munich working. Yeah! No more ghastly earthlink international dialup at 28.8 kbps.
Today we went to the brand spanking new Pinakothek der Moderne on its opening day. It's a new modern/contemporary art museum. How often do I get a chance to go to a new museum on its first day? The building itself doesn't seem all that distinguished in terms of architecture, but it works for showing the work, and it's designed to allow lots of ways to see the other people in the museum.
After I registered for my geek conference, we had a fabulous late lunch at Cafe Greco, a Greek/Mediterranean restaurant in the Neue Pinakothek, or more accurately, outside of it.
After walking around the gay area of Munich a bit, we had dinner at a beautiful restaurant called Faun at Hans-Sachs-Strasse 17. The staff was all gay, and the crowd was an amazing mix -- elderly couples from the neighborhood, gay guys and the women who love them, a few cycling/hiker types, etc. They even had wild hare on the menu!
On the way to the University for my registration, we walked by St Markus Kirche. They had an exhibit by Beate Passow on the pillars of the inner sanctuary, in which she put images in light boxes of famous crucifixion paintings (Cranach, Rubens, Dali, etc.) where the Christ figure had been erased. The title of the exhibit came from a Raymond Pettibon quote: "As long as he suffers there is hope". The bulletin board of the church, at the entrance, had the most amazing collection of items: a graph of apartment availability in Munich (it's an expensive city with affordable housing problems), a map of Afghanistan accompanied by a photo from Schroeder's visit there, and a map of the Nazi's plan for transforming Munich.
