new bikes
today i called the insurance of the girl that hit me on tuesday and informed them that she did not hit a car, but destroyed a bike (they wrote: “please inform us, how expensive the repair of the motor vehicle is gonna be”). the guy on the phone was really friendly, but also a bit weird: “oh, i cannot believe that your bike (something like this) costed 2000 swiss francs five years ago, it must be something really expensive then”. well, sure it was, it’s one of my work-horses, you silly! and when i informed him, that i’m also gonna buy a new helmet on the insurance, he also a bit surprised. but hey, i don’t wanna drive with a potentially damaged helmet, it’s just not safe (not that it’s safe in the first place :-)
bloggin' from iphoto
as you can see in the entry below i’m now able to post pictures directly from iphoto, it’s still bit quirky, but the software i used is still in it’s beta stage, so bear with the author. the photos i blogged directly from my iphoto are from our stay in vienna, one is the town-hall with nina, the other pics are from the restaurant raan, which was more than lovely, i had a vegetarian sushi which was among the best asian stuff i ever ate! a big recommendation if you’re ever gonna go to vienna!
5. Antifaschistischer Abendspaziergang
Aus aktuellem Anlass blogg ich mal auf Deutsch: Hier ist noch der Flyer für den Antifa-Spaziergang vom kommenden Samstag. Ich werde dort sein, Du auch?
4 quick notes
vienna was more than lovely. filewile is having a party tomorrow @ cafe kairo, promoting their video-clip (which runs on viva-swizz after midnight). this saturday evening there’s the antifa-abenspaziergang here in bern. be there set your mark against racism and foreclosure in any form! i had an accident at work today, a women hit me with her smart. my pelvis now hurts really bad, but nothing is broken (except the windscreen of the car…). i’m a lucky bastard!
attacks in madrid
[image via boingboing]
holidays
i’ll be in vienna for the weekend (actually until monday evening). nina won some tickets, so we fly (and leave our eco-conscience at home) and thus we have four full days to enjoy castle schonbrunn (our hotel is near the castle), the hofburg, the prater, the stephans-dom and what else vienna has to offer. and last but not least we’ll meet babsi, a friend i met in ‘97 in australia (i can’t believe it’s such a long time) so i guess it’s gonna be really funny! have a nice weekend.
memorysticks to sell
do you need a memorystick for you pda? (because for a real camera they’re probably too small…) i sell two of ’em: 16 or 8 mb. grab them while they’re fresh (or send me an email and i’ll take down those auctions)
the grand challenge will be not so grand
as engadget writes the grand challenge will not be so grand. NONE of the eight entered robots completed the 1.25 mile test-course in the allotted time and none of all the entered robots will be able to complete the full course in the given ten hours. what a disappointment!
exercise in style
as a comics-enthusiast the fumetto news-letter is always chock-full of links to check out (and has way too many recommendations for my budget, but hell i just got a gratification from work, so i can afford this one, and maybe this or this or this…) but this one really blows it away! the exercises in style by matt madden are an impressive way to fathom the possibilities of (online) comics. matt depicts a trivial situation in a lot of ways and turns every depiction into a different panel which can be viewed on the page. he changes style, changes perspective, both visually and narrative which turns the whole into an impressive art project!
funny flash game
in the tradition of pinguin.swf here’s another extremely silly but annoyingly addictive flash-game: blow up the warthog to kill all the bad aliens. [via weebl and bobs newsletter] oh, and by the way: do you know the successor of pinguin.swf orca slap?