real timewasters

I simply get frustrated everytime when before finally getting down to work I have to search and install thousands of different tools for a functionality I already could use with something else, just to open some random file which is necessary to be able to start... In my world there should be only TEX..

Thoughts picked up on the way

Komik ist Tragik in Spiegelschrift...

[Freundeskreis - A.N.N.A]

I am not my hair
I am not this skin
I am not your expectations, no, no
I am not my hair
I am not this skin
I am a soul that lives within

[India.Arie - I am not my hair]

what if..

.. for each human there is really a path they are destined for but they are at the same time free to leave it, to sidestep from it, to keep going in circles instead? imagine there would be a sort of transparent hull around the path to guide the one travelling on it, which could at the same time be broken by each individual at all times by sheer will of ones mind? would one sense the resistance and reconsider? or play it down and go nevertheless, maybe even flee from the sensation of overstepping a border to nomansland?

deutsches blabla - schweres blabla

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... :)