picture of the week 10
yesterday we’ve been to the zoo in zurich, mostly to see the masaola-hall (which was really impressive). during our stroll through the zoo we passed at the enclosure of the otters where i snapped an image of this little fellow passing out in his bed (which is what i’m gonna do now). oh, and i just sent the image over to the guys and gals of the cute overload… technorati tags: cute, otter, zoo, zuerich
4er stöckchen
pia hat mir den stock zugeworfen, heute abend komm ich auch noch dazu, mir was dazu zu überlegen: 4 Jobs in meinem Leben: IT-Supporter bei der Swisscom Regalauffüller beim Coop Physiklehrer Bademeister 46 Filme die ich immer wieder sehen kann: Tokyo Eyes Akira The Fifth Element Big Fish Contact Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 4 Orte an denen ich gelebt habe: Mailand Münsingen Bern Glasgow 4 TV Serien die ich gerne sehe (aber mir ausser für lost nie zeit dafür nehme…):
calvin speaks the truth
i hope i don’t get me into trouble if i seldom link to strips from calvin and hobbes, but sometimes i just cannot resist. bill watterson sometimes lays the perfect words into his mouth. [via c&h-feed]
creative commons in full effect
through my ego-surfing-feed [1] i found this story in the austinist, a website from austin (i presume :-). to illustrate the breaking news of a downtown fire, the used a picture of the fire at wolfs birthday party. my pictures at flickr are released under an attribution license, so anybody is free to use them as you please, as long as there is proper attribution added. not too bad, maybe i should consider starting a career as photographer :-)
fasnachtsvorbereitungen
getting ready for the fasnacht im moment mach ich einen zivildienst. so siehts aus, wenn man material für die kinderfasnacht morgen vorbereitet. eine aufnahme mit der panoramafunktion meines handys (mit notizen, die auf flickr erscheinen).
the most important 6 seconds in music history
since i seem to be in a musical mood, here’s another post for sound lovers: if you’ve listened to any song that uses samples, be it hip hop, drum n bass, dub or a lot of other flavors, you’ve heard the “amen break”. it’s a sample from the b-side of a single of the winstons from 1969, that only lasts 6 seconds. it’s absolutely amazing how far those snare beats came, it became the base of nearly every drum n bass and jungle song.
the sound of traffic [update]
it’s been quite a long time since i’ve posted something about new software additions to my mac. this app here is actually completely useless, but nonetheless it’s been running since half an hour. sound of traffic is a tiny java application (112 kb) that converts your network traffic into midi notes. my traffic sounds like a laid back chill-out track (i’m downloading/seeding the latest episode of the it crowd over bittorrent and updating some feeds from time to time). the app needs your admin password to access some devices and only works on OS X and Unix [1].
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.