help wanted
if you want to help us at the SUICMC04 then you might look at the letter pia made and send us an email to the mentioned email-address. (this is also here for archival purposes, because if you read that here you’ve probably already gotten the letter by mail)
it all comes together
after i laced my wheels for the second time (i thought i had a 32-hole rim at home, but it was a 36 hole rim and thus had to re-lace the front-wheel) and fitted the bottom bracket and the steering bracket my ostro-frame starts to actually look like a bike (sorry for the bad picture-quality, but it was dark and i took the pic with my mobile…) i might be riding this baby on my birthday, so you better watch out!
easy come, easy go
easy come: nina and i are going on holidays, i paid for our tickets and yesterday evening she paid me back her half (1100$). at least once i swam in money! easy go: i just got this fine (around 150$) for crossing three red lights with the bike. it was quite funny in the end, because the police-officer looked really puzzled, when i answered “no” to his question (he asked: “will that be a lesson for you?”)
picture of the week
this was the view last saturday evening, just minutes after the storm sweeped over the gurten.
global gutz
since you’ve been reading about the global gutz last saturday, i thought it’s time to explain a bit. every year on the 17th july there’s a messenger-race which takes part all around the world. the rules of that race are that there are 5 checkpoints (not including start and finish) evenly distributed on a route of 21km length. the route has to be as flat as possible (quite hard here in bern) so that the results over the whole world can be compared. so, last saturday the global gutz also took part here in bern. and in the end it turned out that bene and me (on top left) were the fastest of all messengers1 that took part here in bern (there were also some messengers from the velokurier biel coming over). after some time it turned out that we were not only the fastest in bern, but the fastest in switzerland! (shouts to anja (on the right) for preparing a fast course!) since Rachel and Pia came in just two minutes later than we both did, they are the fastest global-gutz-women in switzerland. so we had to fight over the train-ticket to the ECMC in Warshaw (fahrradkurier.ch sponsored a ticket). In the end it turned out that Bene and Rachel are gonna go to Warshaw with the sponsored tickets, because they won in Scissors, Paper, Stone. Nono, we didn’t need to fight, I’m invited to a wedding-eve-weekend of a very close friend and Pia is on holidays. (Good for Bene, because i’m unbeatable at SPS!) that’s the explanation why i didn’t stay on the gurten to see nena and iam and lunik. this was probably much more fun anyways!
new pictures are online
a selection of my pictures from the gurtenfestival are now online in the pictures-section.
powerbook-blog
because of posts like these the powerbook blog is gonna stay on my rss-feed :-) i’ve seen it before (when i tested everything in the system preferences years ago) but it’s a nice trick nonetheless! [via powerbook blog]
oh, and by the way
sigi and manu and co. i know that you cannot wait to see my pics of the gurtenfestival, but i have only so much time on my hands… they’ll be here eventually.
programming
coding something can be quite a long process for me. anja mailed me some picture which i wanted to put on the homepage of the SUICMC04. since i wanted to do it in the simplest and cleanest possible way i thought to make little table with links to all of the pictures, so that when you click on them, they pop up in a new window with the right size, with a nifty “close window”-link. in the end it turned out to be a longer process than i thought:
le tour
since the timedifference between the finishers of le grand boucle on sunday is probably gonna be minuscule i thought it’s interesting to know how people actually figure out who comes in first or not after those 180km stages. engadget has a nice little explanation on all the high-tech involved in the timekeeping of the tour de france. [via engadget]