mobile phone art
from here to there. coming back happy.
i need a bigger ipod
i just ripped an old cd i had lying around here: Overproof from Rockers Hi-Fi. And after i synced it to my ipod, i found out, that i need a bigger one, it’s nearly full!!! btw: the vast majority of all the songs on my ipod (i guess more than 95%) are legally owned/bougth by either me, my flat-mates or another friend i borrowed the CD. i admit that i have some songs that i got through poisoned or aquisition (three songs from Seeed, which i saw on the Gurtenfestival last year and Tour de France (the 1983 version, not the new one from 2003) from Kraftwerk, are some i remember out of my head…).
an early start?
susi sent me some pictures which she made in millau it shows me on the start to 200m crawl: if you watch closely on the second image, then you can see that i’m quite a bit ahead of the other starters in my heat (i’m the one on the second lane from left). but the referee still thought it’s a valid start, so i had an advantage :-) nonetheless i came in pretty much as last :-)
the ipod as a consumer thang...
yesterday i was in rodersdorf, playing ddc with jochen. jochen stayed over at a friend, so i was on my own in the train to basel and in the tram to battwil/flueh. in the train i was listening to some music on my ipod, when a guy in the opposite compartment scrolls away on the wheel of his ipod trying to find a good tune. then when i walk out towards the tramway i see a girl with the revealing white headphones on the escalator. and to end that silly little story, the girl enters the tramway Nr 10, which i also needed to take and sits in front of me, so i was constantly surrounded by ipods on my journey :-) the ipod is actually so hip, that it starts to show up in music videos, watch 50 cent’s p.i.m.p-video over at mtv to see 30s seconds of ipod, 50 cent and ladies with white clothes (not very much clothes…). one point i’d like to make is that altough this little piece of engineering and design has a quite high geek-factor i see more and more girls walking around sporting their personal digital player. so albeit the high geekness it has, it’s also a very good music player for the masses (which is very easy to use, as opposed to other mp3-players i’ve seen bevore). the ipod’s UI is so clever even my mother could use it :-)
g5
pure envy!
uglyfootballers.com
i found the fun link of the week (while looking at the website of iguana tatau; for no apparent reason (yes, i’m thinking about a new one…) :-) natalie has it in her link section: uglyfootballers.com. and yes, the ugliest of all is there: Trifon Ivanov. Some of my blog-readers might remember it, i had Trifons Pannini-pic from some worldcup on my pen-case during a long time in the high-school!
Pictures of the EMC
the pictures i made in Millau at the Swimming Championsship are online here. PS1: my results in the pool can be found here (i’m david haberthuer by the way :-). The open-water results here (i’m not really happy with the time i swam in the lake (5.2 km in 1:43, but i had a major cramp in both legs which made me make a break for about five minutes, so it’s not too bad…) PS2: this site here has a lot of infos on the bridge you can see in my pics.. PS3: because i visited one of the caves where they produce the roquefort-cheese i’m gonna cook that tomorrow.
a warm welcome back :-)
when i came home from the european masters championship i started up my trusty ibook to read the mails which came in through the week. and was quite puzzled :-) 135 mails in one week… after skimming some of them i found out that the vast majority of them were virus-mails (the virus is sobig-f). after follwing one of the hints on osxhints.com (btw. one of the best sites for hints regarding a truly beautiful os) i only had something like 25 real emails in my inbox, which was much more what i thought it would be :-) i didn’t use the mail rule proposed in the hint, which seemed a bit harsh, but followed the last comment to that hint)
European Masters Championship
Next week i will probably not update my blog at all, because i’ll be at the European Masters Championship in Millau, France. I’m quite a keen swimmer and am going to swim some disciplines there (200m Crawl, 100m Crawl, 50m Butterfly and a 5km open water swimming in the Lake Pareloup) So don’t be mad at me if i do not update at all next week, i have no idea if i’ll have internet access at the place we’re staying (maybe this is also a good thing for me so i’ll be able to read and sleep a lot :-)
this is the weirdest thing i've seen in a long time :-)
check this out (read in partynews)