Taking a break

I was holed up in CA last weekend thinking about ajax and javascript, decided to take a break, and yes, work on writing up a paper. Thanks to the ever-smart Sariel, hearty Har-Peled, I had a writeup to work on (optimal bounds for a problem that appeared on this blog sometime ago). How did the boy who would burst out of his house when his break begins and rummage through the neighborhood on his wheels (back then, on a bicycle, one that made nearly as much noise as a Harley; you have to visualize this in black and white, except for the fiery red mud) , turn into a researcher who when his break begins, finds a quiet hotel in Mountain View and hacks at a laptop? Alas.