*radio silence broken*

[geoviki]

I must post more.
I must post more.
I must post more.
I must post more.
Gah!

What does it say that I spent more time picking out the effing icon than deciding on content (Japanese pORn stars FTW)? What happens, see, is that it's been so long between posts that I have become overwhelmed by the sheer content of what I should have posted all along; therefore, I can't even wrap my mind around what I should say at the moment.

Or whom I'm even saying it to.

I know: I'll ask a question, one that someone may even be able to help me with.

I want to post "A Thousand Beautiful Things" to the Archive of Our Own. And so I need a program that will convert a Word file to HTML. A program that isn't Word, of course, which fills the whole friggin' thing with incomprehensible and useless code. I want clean, streamlined code. My file has some italics, yeah, but what's it really has is those bloody lyrics that needs blockquotes, but without extra lines and crap.

This program should be freeware or online.

Also I may be travelling to Geneva, Switzerland, very soon. Any tips?

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[bronze-ribbons.livejournal.com]

The Patek Philippe Museum is dazzling: http://www.patekmuseum.com/

The exhibits at CERN were kind of tired, and the tour I went on was more lecturing in front of static displays and kiosks than seeing the innards (although we did stand in front of one of the control rooms for a while), but still, for science and computing nerds, it's worth the pilgrimage. (E.g., seeing the actual computer and servers Tim Berners-Lee used, the Fiami comic books in the gift shop, the physicists who chat me up when they see my LHC jacket... :-) )

They still use Swiss francs (CHF) there (the more tourist-friendly places accept Euros, but rather grudgingly). Get coins at the airport or train station if you're planning to take public transportation. (Silly vending machines.) That said, I had a lot of fun after I bought a day pass and hopped on and off various buses whenever/wherever I felt like it. And they really do refund the difference on bus tickets at the central station if (like me) you get stuck using one of those damn machines and don't have exact change on you. (I think if you stay at a standard hotel they comp the bus passes altogether, so most tourists don't even have to deal with the ticket machines -- I didn't in Lausanne, which has a similar arrangement. [In Geneva, I was trying to save money by staying at a place I'd found via airbnb, and that turned out to be an unhappy experience. Hotels for me from now on.])

FWIW, my Geneva photo diary from last fall.

There is a Globus in Geneva. I went to its food hall after reading David Lebovitz's writeup of the one in Lausanne. Definitely yummy stuff to sample there, and looking is free. ;-) (I couldn't resist the beer with the John Calvin label, though.)

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was enormously helpful, thank you! I checked out all of the photos, too. We've got tickets to see Sonny Rollins at the Victoria Theatre, so it's nice to know what we'll be looking for (not that it's subtle or anything!).

Our hotel will give us those free bus passes, so I'll be sure to take advantage of that. Mr Geoviki will be in meetings all day for the better part of 2 weeks, so I can explore at will.

I need to run off to the library but I'm sitting on my hands so as not to start reading all of your Haru fics right now...whee! That'll be my reward after errand-doing.

[bronze-ribbons.livejournal.com]

Two weeks? Oh my -- I'll be looking forward to your photos/reports! :-D