amazing gizmo
tired of having a dimpled and bruised banana? then you need this piece of fine craftsmanship, the bananaguard! i have to say that the bananaguard order page reminds me of other things, but that’s a) another story and b) up to your imagination… [via gizmodo]
georbe dubya is boring!
reading one of the latest editions of the weltwoche i stumbled over that funny little story. gorge dubya bush was holding a 45 min speech in orlando, florida. tyler crotty, some teenager, stood behind the big silly man and had to listen to him for the whole time. he couldn’t help yawning, looking at his watch and twisting his head a bit to relieve the absolute boredom he encountered. you have to watch the video to see how funny that is. here’s the link to a video of the best moments as a real-player file. if you don’t have installed the real-player, then you can still check out the story on local6-news or take a look at a slideshow of the best moments. hilarious!
blogrolls
while having a look at my referrers something struck me. besides all the ubiquitous pr0n-links i get a big bunch of hits from google and a massive hit from other blogrolls (many users of bloglines and postami and alike). hey, even the fscklog links to me in his/her blogroll (as seen on the left). the thing that struck me is - as arni described it in one of his last posts - that, because i share a big piece of my life on the net with a growing bunch of people i do not know and i’ve never met, all the people who google me find out pretty much anything about me (at least the things i share) it’s like one big massive cv that builds up. arni described that perfectly. sometimes in the future there’s no need to include references in your cv, because the person offering you a job will google your name and find out everything he or she needs to know. example? search for “cost + HO:YAG laser” and google.nl presents you my thesis, e.g. i did something with lasers in my past search for “joya rennt trailer”, here i am again, e.g. i am somehow connected to that tv-series. i could go on and list all the referrers from google, but the point i wanted to make (to those who don’t read arnis blog) is, that pretty much everything i (or any other person) posts/comments or leaves ont the net is gonna be history from the point on it’s there. and most probably, it’s gonna stay, too. this means: do what you want on the net, but do it responsibly, because it’s there and it will be there. treat other people like you want to be treated, and stay true to yourself, because you wouldn’t want your future boss or future business-partner or whatever find out that you acted like a complete asshole years ago. because he will be able to find out if he wants to. time to go and cook (so my future boss, i like to cook :-). nightynight!
picture of the week
this friendly door looks like weebl and bobs big brother, don’t you think? if you’re the first person to guess where this picture was taken i pay you a beer, be it real or virtual :-) hint: the picture was taken yesterday. i spent the whole day in zurich, so this might narrow down your guessing possibilities a bit…
noooo!
i just nearly broke my neck. when i sat on my panton chair (a verner panton original from 1972) it cracked half through and now looks like this: the saddest part is, that the chair was a birthday present from my parents and is the most expensive piece of furniture i own (besides my selfmade sideboard/shelf which you can see in the background of the pictures). now i have to decide if i want to shell out big cash to get a new old panton chair from el trapero or a new new cheaper chair from vitra. if you’ve been at the expo in neuchatel you know them, a horrible tupperware-like polypropylene, not the heavy haptically interesting polyurethane. guess who is soon paying an unreasonable high amount of cash for a simple chair :-)
team laser explosion
team laser explosions newest adventure is online. they saved the world. sad, but true, there was no pie in weebl and bob’s newest adventure, but the laser pelvis attack is nearly as good. :-) [via weebls newsletter]
the fly
instead of reading way too much rss-feeds and stuff on tha intaweb i instead watched the fly (the 1986 version, not the original or the upcoming remake). not that it was a really good movie, but as an example of eighties trick-technique and scientific imagination and computer-trickery it was really enjoyable. in the end it means that i now only have about 47 unwatched dvds in my treasure chest in the living room. and to finish a busy day i’ll now make an onion-packing to relieve my aching neck. i woke up with a really stiff neck last monday morning and it still doesn’t feel better so nina suggested this remedy… (she’s studying pharmaceutics, so actually onion-packings are not her thing, she’s a bit more on the chemical side :-)
bluetooth headset
i’ve always wanted to get a bluetooth headset for my mobile (not that i needed it, but as a tech-addict you can’t argue with that :-) but thought that they’re far too clumsy to actually use them. but today i saw the nextlink bluespoon 5g headset which is far from clumsy. it looks like you have to pay attention not to loose it in your pockets. you should especially check out this picture from the gallery to see how tiny it is. sadly it’s only a prototype for now, nextlinks page does not advertise is anywhere…
zimmer zu vermieten
aus aktuellem anlass mal wieder in deutsch: einer meiner mitbewohner hier verabschiedet sich am ersten juni aus unserer wg. wer also jemand weiss, der ab ersten juni mit einem technik-verliebten velokurier und einem punkigen elektromonteur in einer fünfeinhalb-zimmer-wohnung zusammenwohnen will, soll sich bei mir melden (mailadresse links im sidebar.) das zu vergebende zimmer ist endtweder 25 oder etwa 18 qm gross (je nachdem ob mein verbleibender mitbewohne wechseln will) und kostet etwas mehr oder etwas weniger als 550 franken. die wohnung hat leider kein balkon (der rosengarten ist aber nah), dafür nebst den drei bewohnerinnen-zimmern eine grosse kuche, ein esszimmer und ein fernsehzimmer, einen schnellen adsl-anschluss, internes netzwerk (für die technikverliebten :-), zwei telefonlinien und zwei gutmütige mitbewohner, die gerne mal zusammen kochen, das aber nicht jeden abend tun mussen. achja, die wohnung ist im breitsch, an der rodtmattstrasse, nicht weit vom breitschplatz entfernt, also nahe an migros, coop, reformhaus, apotheke, post und so. und in der stadt ist man auch schnell, mit dem velo sowieso :-)
endless pool
too bad i cannot add this to my amazon wishlist! as an avid swimmer i’d love to have an endless pool in my basement or so. at least they send out a free video, so i can dream on a bit :)