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in the true sense of do it yourself i laced my own front wheel today. remember that i bought a frame from poland quite some time ago. now that i know all the relevant parts are gonna fit i’m in the process of turning that frame into a lean, mean riding machine :-) because i want it to look nice, i laced the wheel radially, so it will look good (although lorenzo doesn’t like it…). a good trained wheel-builder can build a full wheel in about an hour. it took me twice that time (and let me tell you, radially is much simpler to lace than the normal way, where the spokes intermittently cross each other) but now i’ve got a front wheel which i built myself, which makes me quite proud. and now i just need steve to send me that rear hub, lace another wheel and i’ll be riding my [insert cool name here ] soon. i’m really looking forward to it!

the (nearly) full set of pictures from our aare-tour yesterday is online in the /pics -section. enjoy and have fun. maybe i’ll have some really nice panoramic shots ready soon. from the first preliminary tests it might look really good…

yesterday i wanted to go to the theater with fränzi, but the whole evening came different than planned. since it was a birthday gift for her, we wanted to go and have a little drink before, so we met quite early. but when we drove over the kornhausplatz her bike got caught in the tramway tracks and she fell really hard. fortunately she wasn’t injured much, “only” little rashes on pretty much every protruding part of her body (hands, elbows, hips, knees). you can guess that she wasn’t in theater-mood anymore. so we returned to her place and she cleaned all her wounds. when she recovered from her mild shock we decided to go to the movies instead. in the end we went to see la mala educacion . quite some time ago i discussed to go and see that movie with bruni, but then we ended up watching another movie, mostly because i thought that la mala educacion was much to heavy for that certain evening we had then (which was really good, but not in a sunny, happy good way). but now, that i’ve seen it i must say that i’m (as always) impressed by pedro almadovar . first the movie starts out quite funny, even hysterically funny sometimes, but then turns in a pretty intense movie about misuse of kids with a pretty complex time-structure, so it’s not an easy movie, but nonetheless worth seeing. but go and see it on a good day of yours, not when you’re in a grey mood!

need to relieve some stress? want to bring back some memories from your childhood? or just need to burst some bubbles? then elbewerk ’s virtual bubblewrap is for you! (160kb .swf-file) good night!

to save chris some space and to prevent bloating of my picture archive i deleted some pictures from the /pics-section . so, if you miss pictures from millau, from the trainingsweekend, from terraventura, from the juli-bruch, from the last party @ barni and from evionnaz then send me an email, i might burn them on a cd for you.

aus aktuellem grund mal wieder in deutsch: wenn du michel bernard vom velokurier bern kennst, dann komm diesen freitag doch auch an seine abschluss-sause. nach 11 jahren wird er auf ende juli den velokurier bern verlassen. ihm zu ehren werden wir ein alleycat durch bern machen, hoffentlich kommen kuriere und nichtkuriere von überall.

so here’s something funny for all of you which don’t want to be bothered with my rant below. bjorn mailed me the movie below. it’s a movie of a french guy which mounted some horns on his jumpsuit and manages to actually play songs through his convulsions (2.6mb .wmv-file)

now i’ll go to bed, because i’ve got to get up in something like six hours. good night!

if i could be bothered to actually write a letter to the editor i would, because that article in one of the last weltwoche’s is absolutely crummy! the article is in the archive which is not freely available, so here’s a copy of the printout i made:

with a wee bit of research david signer would have found out that there’s no thing as a piercing world record (and the most pierced person has much more than 500 piercings ). so dear david signer, if you don’t like it for yourself, just leave all the other people living happily with their modifications happy and look that you can find your way without dissing other people!

I’ve always wondered how a hen manages to lay an egg. improbable research links to an interesting article where the process is explained. but the article does not explain how the egg is actually “generated” in the hen itself. and the most important question is, do all eggs contain a potential biddy ? e.g. could you breed the eggs you buy in the shop or not? do you know the answer? then please post a comment, and i can delete that question from my list of unanswered ones…

leo’s fscklog is always a good place to discover new software (sometimes i wonder where he takes the time to fill all his MacOrama’s with interesting news). mail.appetizer is an excellent freeware application (see leos german explanation ) which alerts you with a customizable window when any new mail arrives in any of your inboxes in mail.app. so you can preview your incoming mail and decide if it’s worth switching to mail or carry on with the task you’ve been doing at the moment. RC3 of mail.appetizer got even better, now the window is completely customizable, e.g. the font and size can be chosen and it also displays the sender picture (from the addressbook ) so you get a hint on who you want’s to steal your time. an indispensable piece of software!