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Ein Hoch auf deutsche Facebookwerbung....

holiday on ice

today i went for ice skating on one of the lakes not too far from home. it was simply beautiful - so much space, so few people, fresh crispy air, great view to the mountains, no noises except the crackling of the ice... we were skating round the whole lake, which took us quite a while. in some sense winter serves like an equalizer, making every part of the lake accessible even to people not owning land there. maybe some other day i will manage to put up some more pictures, for now just one so you get the idea that winter here is actually really beautiful ;)

tram to russia

hadn't it been for the tram driver shouting at people to clear the doors in most original bavarian, I truly would have believed this tram travelling to some russian city. it seemed highly bizarre that on a half hour's ride each group of people that entered the train started to speak in russian, on the phone, to each other...
it was like in a science fiction movie, where everything at first seems to be as always, until one notices that in fact under the surface everything is substantially different.

the answer is silence

what is the best strategy when the reaction to your action is silence?

to ask?

to assume everything is as it should?

to declare the action the acutal aim, consequently rendering an answer unneccessary?

to trust that there would be a response in case something went wrong?


these days i quite fancy the redefinition approaches; sadly they are not completely risk free..

let's go for a drink!

nice example of quite different strategies/control flows when tackling the same task..
thanks to elena who sent me this :)

another skype revelation

never be afraid to say what you feel. you can only die once.

relativizing opposites

left = right;

sometimes i really like program logic... :)

another approach to problem solving

picture wall

Some of you asked what became of the pictures I collected when I left Bz.. so here you can see them distributed around my room :) the ordering is quite random (probably the order in which i pulled them out of the envelope when fixing them up) so please don't use it to make any inferences on a imaginary friend-ranking :P
If someone feels they are missing on my wall, please feel free to send me a picture and I will happily find some space to put it (in case hard copy is no good for you, mail me the pic and I might eventually get round to print it myself ;).
Generally I have to say that I really like these pictures which make me think of you every day, hoping to see you again soon :)

random guest list

I wonder how it would be to make a party with all the people that I see online at the moment in skype.. Probably the best description would be 'quite randomized social experiment', as a lot of them are from totally different groups and have never met before, so the constellations would be rather interesting. Best would probably be if I was not present at that event, so the unifying factor would not be there either.. (and noone could eat me in case of things not working out ;)