I know i just sent a message and it costs a fortune BUT there is a hole in the clouds and the sun is shining above! I need to figure out how to buy the CD off from the driver later on...
180 kilometer in front of us. Perfect organisation. A taxi just picked us up from the airport in skopje. We are listening to techno music in the car! I forgot that its still in over here. Loving it! Outside its a bit foggy and raining a little. The whole thing reminds me of a scotland weekend, which turned out to be very nice. 110 km/h + 110 bpm = sounds like fun!
Off to macedonia for the weekend for the wedding of Jack and Jasmina. Too bad its such a short visit, still i am sure it will be fun. Hasta luego
Woke up early today. Continued the major cleaning of the flat and felt so great about it that i just jumped on my bike and one and a half hour later i am sitting in an asian beergarden at the gates of hanau. Too bad i did not have breakfast and so i am starving...
found this image on boingboing:
not related to this is this presentation. it's pretty cool (thanks, little bro!)
ps: if you like it, try it here ...
I am sitting in the bus to bilbao after a wonderful weekend in san sebastian after being lucky enough to have chosen the best weekend of the summer to come here. The "semana grande" as they call this weekend is pretty cool. No wonder i couldn't find a place to stay! Millions of people, sunshine, a fireworks competition (15 minutes every night) pintxos, waves, free concerts, i don't know where to start and where to finish the list. I was a bit afraid i would find a different city once i came back but i am still in love with life around this place. Friday night we went out with the german mafia of the tandem school, yesterday it was the irish-aussie-bask group. Both nights were great, only yesterdays night got broken off by a bit of rain. Resume: was totally worth coming, meeting old friends and their new friends, boyfriends, etc. To finish with a quote from a great movie: i'll be back!
Perfect flight - perfect landing. Hace frio un poco, pero es no importante... El museo de guggenheim esta a la derecha, san sebastian esta todo recto ... Hasta pronto!
Having the worst headache of my life today. I don't understand why because there was nothing special about yesterday night, except the bottle of Newcastle I had in the Anglo. Maybe I should sleep more. Aaaaanyway - finally had an appointment at the hairdressers. Last time I tested someone new as my regular cutter Xiomy got pregnant and so she is not working there any more. I was not very happy but this time they got it right - so I rode my bike home smiling after running into a Catalan party in the city. The rest of the day was very well spent sleeping most of the time. Ah, yes - plus I booked tickets for a San Sebastian weekend and purchased some stuff from Amazon.
I used my bike for the first time properly. alba invited to "zur sonne" to celebrate her promotion. amazingly she actually managed to be there first - I came second and then Jack. Had a Schnitzel and it was good. But they kicked us out around 11 so we went to Sachsenhausen, where everybody knows your name (for some of us at least ...)
Proper night out, met all who we expected to meet and had fun.
wanted to go to the 2raumwohnung concert in cocoon - but somehow i am working too much again and am very tired. so no concert for lazy me ... (i know - excuses over excuses)
remember the times in high-school when people asked you the time and you looked at your wrist where your watch should have been and answered something along skin hour, hair minutes or It's ... now!? Well now there is a watch you can buy where this is not bullshit any more!
Talking about geeky stuff, here is an interesting article on sex & intelligence. Plus a pretty cool wikipedia explanation of the Tourette Syndrome.
And the best at last - here is a cool geek talking about really cool stuff - with a very geeky laugh. I WANT THIS STUFF!!! Enjoy!
There is a god. Or at least some entity that makes sure I get lucky from time to time. It seems that I found a mountain bike on ebay for 32 Euros and it turned out to be a really nice one. It used to belong to a girl that left for the US and so does not need it any more – she only used it 4 times (according to the seller of the bike of course). Some minor parts of the breaks are a bit rusty but it doesn’t look like that would be a problem. The coolest thing is the gear shifts. They are circular and kind of built into the handle. So shifting is like on a motorbike. Really cool stuff.
Still to do:
- Put the seat into a higher position
- Get a proper pump for the wheels
- Check the rusty parts and eventually replace them
- Get some protection against the dirt being thrown up from the weels (optional but very useful if using the bike on wet or dirty streets
I am very much looking forward to using the bike in the city.
I watched the Simpsons movie in the Haydn cinema in Vienna. The movie was very funny, totally worth the ticket - I am a bit frustrated that it did not have some of the classic characters playig bigger parts - Skinner, Marge's sisters, Willie, Mrs. Krabappel, etc. So I can only hope what Maggie said is true ...
Having said that, I am for sure buying the DVD the day it comes out - hoping for a director's cut or similar. And here comes the poetic end of this post:
Spiderpig, spiderpig, does whatever a spiderpig does.
Can he swing - from a web?
No he can't, he's a pig!
Look Out, here comes the Spiderpig!
There are situations where I become a bit sentimental - like when we go for a round with my ex-dog, Köpeck. Sniff ;-)
we have said once, that once all of us finish our studies, we would go to Schloss Obermayerhofen for a wonderful dinner. And so we have finally managed to find a weekend that fit us all and had our fantastic dinner. Plus there was a wedding celebration including huge fireworks! Too bad that the weather was not the best - but the food was pretty amazing - the highlight being a piece of "Rind vom Angus" ...
From left to right: Frau Diplomingenieurin Jankovic, Herr Diplomingenieur Deri, Frau Magister Fabian & Frau Doktor Koch
According to this article we can save a lot of energy by having websites with dark background colours versus white ones. Therefore some company created a new google called:
I will be spending quite some time in the next weeks going through my albums and checking the access rights and the tags before you will be able to see all the content. Coming back to the story around Blackle I will be wasting a lot of energy doing that as Flickr is still a white-background website :-)
Now it's official. People with fat friends are fatter than others. Apparently you cannot blame this one on your family or your neighbours, not even on "society". No, it is your FRIENDS that make you fat. Fascinating ...
Click on the Meatloaf picture below for the article (no relevance of course - I just like this picture somehow)
I am soooooooooo looking forward to watch my yellow-skinned idol and his family in their newest adventure in an air-conditioned cinema Monday evening in Vienna :-)
I stumbled across this website called TED. It is full of amazong little clips called "Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers" - some of which are totally eye-opening. As there are more than a hundred clips, you cannot watch them all at once - today I watched this one on ageing. It is pretty cool - and worth waiting for the Q&A section in the end. Watch and Enjoy!!!
Another spanish cinema night in the Malsehn cinema, which is only 5 minutes away from where I live. Last time I went to this cinema was to watch "walk on water" and before that "Transamerica" - both pretty weird. Good but weird. And so it wasn't a big surprise that azul oscuro casi negro was a bit weird also. A very good movie - funny, with a nice music - almost like a musical. A wonderful movie about family values, friendships, life, love and what's important in life.
Let's see if this motivates me to (a) go learn spanish and (b) go to this cinema more often. Vamos a ver ...
I spent the day reading the new Harry Potter book. As I don't want to spoil it for anybody I am not going to talk about it - just so much, that J.K.Rowling is a genious. I am thankful for her for having written these 7 books - if only I knew who borrowed the first ones from me, I could ask for them back soon - there is some space left on my bookshelf right next to my precious Lord of The Rings books :-) 
