g5 supercluster
these guys are wild! (here are more infos on the G5 supercluster at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) update: read more on apple.slashdot.org (also for some funny comments on this)
1.141553 km/h
today i reached 4454 km on my bike (i didn’t have my camera with me at 4444km, so this was after i finished to work today…). i got my odometer sometimes around the beginning of april this year. so this means that i drive around 10000 km a year on my bike, hence 1.141553 km/h (only at work, i drive quite a bit when i do not work…) i could do a lot more calculations with my odometer: i consistently drive around 100 km during one work day, and make a bit more than 200 CHF on one day, so for each kilometer i drive at work i earn something like a cheap little bread or one of these king-size mars bars or half a coke in the restaurant or 2 CHF. i need to get a shower :-)
weird news
this sounds a bit strange for me: i knew that text messages are not the hype-thing in the us of a, but that it’s considered big news by mobiletracker, that one can send SMS to other countries does sound a bit like oldfashioned news indeed… btw: read this entry on gizmodo for another view on this :-)
shopping/dreaming
today i went shopping a little bit (free afternoon, because all my classes are already on holidays and i’m only biking around 50 % of my time…): some little stuff for the upcoming week, i’ll be in greece, and then went to jaggi, because you can read all the comics you want without bein bothered. near the comics FUST has an electronica-shop which i never can resist and always go and have a little look: today i spotted the perfect replacement for my old VCR, which is not far away from dying: the Panasonic DMR-HS2 , a combination of HD- and DVD-recorder which can fit up to 52 hours of video on its disk.
ubergeek
i think my geekness could only be satisfied if i lived in japan. i wonder when the new clie ux50 is gonna come out here in switzerland (with integrated wifi, bluetooth, keyboard, camera, a big-ass screen and a polished palm os…) update: well, it actually does come out here somewhere in october for a hefty entry price of 930 CHF. dream on dreamer!
USB
gizmodo (one of my favourite gadget site) talked about a mysterious USB-powered noodle thingy (here and here) sometimes last week. now look at this really strange USB gadget i found on brando’s shop while looking for some other USB-stuff.
damn i live in switzerland
i need this shirt for that event, but there’s no time to get it until then :-)
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 :-)