the it crowd
while on the way to oberwald i finally found some time to watch the it crowd (on my psp). since cory doctorow posted about that new show on boingboing, i’ve been downloading all the episodes of the ultimate geek comedy. the show is about a sysadmin duo. the two ubergeeks moss and roy [1] get a new boss who has far better knowledge of shoes than of computers. each of the first three episodes i’ve watched up to now is hilarious, the people that rode on the train with me must have thought i’m utterly insane, because i couldn’t help to chuckle and laugh out loud. it’s not the plot that is so funny, but the fact that each episode progressively gets weirder and belly rupturing funny.
picture of the week 07
yesterday i spent a wonderful day in oberwald. ninas mother spends at least a week per year there, mostly with some friends. she invited nina and me for the weekend, to do some cross-country skiing. it always amazes me how much snow you can find in oberwald. it makes the ugly slush you find here in bern feel even nastier. oh, the cross-county skiing was great, thanks for asking. this time we tried with rented equipment, so we could skate, which is even better than doing it the classic way.
picture of the week 06
the past saturday i’ve spent a day in plan-les-ouates, near geneva at the first masters meeting of the swim team of plan-les-ouates. martin and me were the ones starting for bern, kurt and pesche started for basel. the image below shows pesche going for 1:15.39 in 100m butterfly. if you’d like to see the rest of the images, the you should proceed to this flickr-set of mine. and if you want to see what i did the weekend before, take a look at this set.
this blog is now cocomment enabled!
after reading a lot of buzz about cocomment (explained a wee bit here :-) i thought it’s about time to jump the bandwagon. and now, after adding a little bit of code to the individual entry archive this blog is now officially pimped -ehrm- cocomment enabled. have no idea what i’m talking about? i only start to get the implication of cocomment, but let me explain it here, as far as i get it: up to now, whenever i commented on a blog/site somewhere, i had to remember to visit the site later on or add the comment feed to my feedreader to not loose that particular conversation string. cocomment should be able to overcome that, because it enables a lot of sites (even flickr!) to “send” the comments back to one central location. i’m now able to track those comments in a central location and follow conversations more, thus participating more (talk about positive feedback loop).
multi-finger GUI
it is rumored that the next iteration of the ipod will feature a nice screen with a 3.5"-touchscreen and a digital scrollwheel. however cool that may be, i was really impressed by that tech-demo from the new york university here: bi-manual, multi-point, and multi-user input on a graphical interaction surface. it shows how one would be able to interact with an OS/GUI with multiple fingers and two hands. wicked! you can directly grab the demo reel as a 17 mb .mpg-file or 12mb .mp4-file (both linked in the coral-cache-version to save some bandwidth).
gipfelfoto
Gipfelfoto 2700m über meer, auf der medriger fluh. wunderbar sonnig, kein feinstaub und trotz tiefem winter schon gemutlich warm.
picture of the week 04
the past saturday we wanted to go skiing. when we arrived in adelboden at 20 past 9 in the morning we were informed that the whole ski-region is closed because of the guggifohn (a wind with velocities up to 246 km/h). we then waited for more informations, but around 10:30 it was evident that the chairlifts and cablecars won’t open for the day. we then decided to switch to the engstligenalp, but it turned out that the fohn was blowing there, too.
lhc panorama
do you want to take a look at the biggest microscope ever built? do you wonder how it sounds in the huge assembly hall of the two atlas magnets? then you should take a look at this qtvr-panorama of peter mc cready. and you should also definitely check out the other panoramas he made. you can access them in through the navigational buttons in the lower pane. sigi, barni and herman, do you remember how we stood in those halls some years ago? (and seen some really weird stuff going on, like those photographers for …. :-)
picture of the week 03
i’ve been dog-sitting two big dogs [1] of a friend this weekend. while going for a nice long walk we felt a bit like being in an episode of lost, but also had a rather good time. the image below was taken on this bridge. [1]: esta in front, and diavolo on the back, they’re much easier to care for than they look.
rocket powered bike
sometimes later in the afternoon at work i wish for something like this. a rocket bike with a rather impressive acceleration, from 0 to 96 km/h in five (!!!) seconds. the bike where the rocket is bolted on looks a bit goofy, but i guess you could improve that easily… now i just want to see a video of it in action! [via makezine] technorati tags: bike, make, rockets