listen with headphones and closed eyes

don't worry?

I wonder if it is any use in life to worry about small things (and maybe even big ones?). I mean, there are certain things that might happen and that won't be nice. But if they need to happen, they will if we worried or not. (Actually, sometimes i guess they might happen even faster..)

So if things happen anyway, the difference lies in our own attitude: do we enjoy the good things we have and the possibilities in life, or do we spend all this time with worrying?

Actually, i wonder if it is about what one believes in; if one is generally optimistic and seeing chances at every corner, or if one is afraid of new things, trying to keep the familiar as unchanged as possible?

streichQuartett

"wieviel hubraum hat deine geige? hehe, meine hat mehr, stich!"

come rain, come shine

or both at the same time...

looking for amoeba

it should be some multicomputer operating system... but as i found on wikipedia, it's also the name of a water device with the curious name Advanced Multiple Organized Experimental Basin with which you can write letters in a water basin...

For further information check out this article.

my blue face

off track

sittng in the underground or train these days i get funny thoughts about life. i don't know why, but somehow at times the world just seems to pass me by. it is as if everything is moving in a certain way, just i don't know the rules so i stay where i am. very strange feeling (but then very much the feeling of being in transit in a train for example. you stay still but still everything around you is moving on..). i wonder though if this effect is coming through in the rest of my life? maybe being on the train is deeply influencing my subconscious?

maybe i should stop breaking routines all the time. it just causes confusion, because nothing can be relied on. but then, going accross all the time could also be a way of getting along - just always as a stranger.

linux is perfect - but

i had a nice linux moment today - finally getting my university login for printing my scripts for my exam preparation. the computer rooms are great; somebody thought quite far ahead, putting 2 screens at each pc. and also linux for working is reasonable - until one has to print a pdf with 4 slides per page rotated in the correct way and duplex print.

hmmm..

the admin told me cups won't like to turn the pages for me (nor did it scale them properly...) so what should i do?

the answer is trivial: if you can't rotate the paper, rotate the whole document! luckily adobe reader has the functionality for this. So what's left after is to set the orientation of the printer to "horizontal - inverse" and you're done!

easy as pie :P

living at home

there's some funny things about me living at home again.

there are some people that still ask me for how long i am staying and when i will come back.. they look very surprised (even scared) if the answer is 'since october'

also i had a nice moment recently, when i was asked by my sister if i couldnt rehearse in some other universe at 1 in the morning :P

parallelization

seems it's not possible for win to install more than one app simultaneously.. :P could have thought of it before