moblog frenzy!
urs gehrig reports that one of the mobile phone providers here in switzerland starts with an 5 bucks “all you can download"1 GPRS-plan. i’ve been looking forward for something like this for a long time (because everywhere else on the world there are a lot of flatrate GPRS-plans (just look at phil torrones moblog for instance, he uses it massively). let’s hope that this step starts the competition between the three mobile providers here in switzerland: sunrise (my provider) and orange and swisscom, i’d love to fill my moblog with unnecessary crap the whole day long!
coffee and cigarettes
oh, and if you don’t want to go and watch troy (which is what we haven’t done on friday evening) then you should better go and see coffee and cigarettes, i presume that it must be much better than any sandal movie ever made (and has no goof as opposed to the at least 27 goofs in troy). i went to see it yesterday evening with bruni and must say that it - although the movie has no real plot - i was really charmed by the movie. it consists of multiple short stories, which are connected only by the fact that the protagonists talk over some coffee and cigarettes, but if you think twice (or three times) then you see the stronger connection between each and every story. (and just the story with GZA and RZA and bill murray is hilarious and worth the whole entry fee)
picture(s) of the week
since the swiss farmers lately informed me on the radio that the swiss strawberries are here and that they’re sweet and gorgeous and stuff like that i could hardly resist to buy some on friday. but the farmers must have some really strange fertilizers, because one of the strawberries was huuuuuge! see for yourself: ps1: the first picture doesn’t do her justice, nina is much much prettier IRL! ps2: just for the record: if you want to be informed about the prices for slaughter cattle every friday afternoon, you can get a free sms-newsletter from the swiss farmers (sorry, only availiable in switzerland).
pictures of the year
my picture of the week is coming soon, for the moment here are the pictures of the past year. a lot of them are burnt into my retina, i remember quite vividly having seen most of them once in a while. is that because gettyimages is the provider of most of the pictures of the weltwoche or because gettyimages is one of the biggest provider of images per se? if you want to see all the 2003-defining images you have to have the flash player 6 and need to click right here: defining the moment…
waterworld II
it’s been raining so much the last days here in bern, that the pope can be happy he’ll stay so high up here (actually in piece’s neighborhood). i’m quite happy i didn’t need to bike today, because the nether regions of bern were not bikeable today and because i’m ill again. so i’m not gonna stay up any longer, but go to bed and stay there as long as possible tomorrow. nightynight!
my weekend
simu wants to ride the alpenbrevet, so he talked some of us into that little tour. so, yesterday morning, ismu, michel, urs, simu and me started sometimes after nine o’clock in kehrsatz. somewhere down in the simmental we met pascu from the velokurier biel who drove up to the jaunpass with us. from there we went over the mittelberg. (if you dare, here are two movies from the mittelberg-descent) where soon after ismu and pascu went back home and michel, simu, urs and me attacked the col des mosses (i could hardly attack anymore :-). the last descent from the col des mosses to aigle was the most rewarding of the whole trip. 17 km downhill. then we arrived in aigle, where we went to visit the cmc and then waited that the patron came to open the hotel (guess which one) just for us. after a really big diner (and i mean BIG) we all went to bed and slept like babies :-) on the second day we started with the col de la croix (the steepest and longest one on our journey) and then went over the col du pillon. then we managed to get until gstaad where we had to make a break because we were all freezing our asses off (i tell you, driving down to passes with a racing-bike in heavy rain is no fun..) after a good meal we took the last part of our journey under our wheels. with one little break to fill our bottles (just shortly before i fell off my bike) we drove back to bern where we arrived with a big smile on our faces (and an overall average speed of 27.7 km per hours (hence hammes comment), which is way better than i thought we’d have). if you’d like to see some pictures, they are online in the pictures-section. and now i should go to bed, because i’m working the whole day tomorrow, which is definitely gonna be hard!
yeehaw! (picture of the week)
osxhints made that little hint on Descent2, that has brought me back to old ages. if you’ve never played descent2, then you don’t need to bother actually clicking on the link, but if you spent countless hours in front of a glooming monitor trying to master your spaceship while zapping through complicated tunnels and blasting the enemies with CONCSN MISSILE’s, then you absolutely need to! i think Descent2 was the best 3d-mission game, i remember playing it for hours (i think that was actually one of the few computer-games i played more than two times or so, i never was a gamer…). i cannot wait to actually finish a level and be blasted out of the mother-spaceship. miklos and b. do you remember? flashback ahoi!
blingbling
how do you like my new belt? it’s tha perfect gift i got from new york via my nice sister. her version is a bit more blingbling, but nonetheless i think mine is the coolest :-) thanks nina!
i want that car
today the newest wired arrived. as always, when scanning it for worthwhile stuff to read, my eyes get caught on the “fetish” page. nope, it’s not your normal fetish like latex and leather and stuff like that, but shining and gleaming gadgets and gizmos. this time, the wired staff portrayed the toyota volta, a hybrid concept car. the volta is the bigger and much much spiffier brother of the toyota prius, which is a really big hit in the us. i presume that hybrid cars are the only way electric cars are ever gonna be popular. (heck, even gearbits loves it :-) a hybrid car is - for all those that do not know - a car that has both a conventional engine and an electrical engine. both share the work, the electrical engine all the work where a conventional one is not good, e.g. accelerating and small burst of power, and the conventional engine comes to help when maximal power is needed, like on auto-routes. thus, such cars manage to be really fuel-efficient and environmentally safe (at least many of times safer than a normal car) while leaving the man or woman behind the steering wheel with the experience of a real car, so no charging of the battery or searching for that hydrogen filling stations.
amazing!
yesterday evening my ibook crashed. it locked up when i started realplayer to listen to some late-nite tunes while having setiathome running (so the processor was on full duty). normally such lock-ups are not a big deal, it will recover from itself, i thought, just give it some time. i thought, maybe if i unplug it, it will go to sleep soon and be a happy puppy again. so i lay on my bed and started to read in my book. sometimes later i must have fallen asleep without actually looking how my ibook is doing. this morning the ibook was sitting happily on my desk, turned off. it did not go to sleep, which is what it normally does when the battery power is too low, but was turned off. so the battery must have been completely drained. no big deal, it only lasted 5-6 minutes anyway, because my ibook is about three years old, and was used a lot on it’s own juice. the amazing part is that when i rebooted, i saw that the battery icon mentioned that the battery needs about two and a half hours to fully charge again. hmm. that’s much much more than it ever said before. then after these two and a half hours i unplugged the ibook from the juice and the icon says: (after some “calculating…”) that i got an hour and 16 minutes left on battery power. amazing. i guess the battery was not so bad then. lucky i’m not the winning bidder here :-)