Megahertz

Today, we witnessed the emergence of a new unit.
When BK asked Techno about the performance of his VIA barebone (neudt: "Performt Dein VIA gut?"), the response was something along the lines of "no, it's 600MHz, but the perceived hertz are about 200..."
:-)

"To shreds, you say..."(The Calendar Of Hell)

Day by day, landfall of the Watschenfeld 2005 workgroup colloquium where we all present our research results of last year comes nearer.
And samely day by day, I feel more and more like an amateur.

At least, finally, today, I thought of creating a Calendar Of Hell, a long-forgotten but efficient way of organizing myself. Whenever an important date of exams or presentations came nearer, during studies or in school, I used to draw a large calendar chart, giving the number of days left until the examination date, and the milestones to be achieved until then. At least when there's only a limited and small number of remaining 24h-batches left, I come to grips with my Sirtaki working strategy and finally start working in earnest.
Today is one of these days.

Make It Easy

"Alle Siffe fliegen hoch!"

Sometimes, having a simple world model makes understanding of and living in the world excessively easy... E.g. opening the botlab window is making all the Siffe from downstairs floating up, by definition, instead of even vaguely allowing the idea of letting fresh air flow in through the window.

Sometimes, my colleagues really strain my understanding...

OMG (Affection)

New insights galore, and this in spite of the early hour of 09:26.

Oh My God!

That's what I thought when I received Smørebrød back yesterday after its overhaul. I tend to keep it neat&tidy (memeans, washing it every other week, and hoovering® the interior whenever I'm in a suitable place, i.e. I/O), but yesterday evening it stood blinking and shining in the garage... they not only repaired all those nasty defects I reported about in this blog, but also polished it in and out. It hasn't been *so* clean in a long time...
So, I find that affection is clearly an issue of money :-).

And I will keep a selection of music in the car as well, effective immediately. This keeps spirits up like nothing else.

(I keep thinking... I forgot some copies of nude drawings in the car... maybe the mechanics were motivated by that?)

New Word: "marten"

Marten. That's a carnivorous animals about the size of a cat. In Europe, martens habitually get into the warm engine and gnaw up the tubes.
I got a call from the garage where I left Smørebrød, and they finally found the source of the coolant leakage. Martens gnawed into the coolant tubing, and killed two tubes. Each - guess - at the special discount price of almost fifty bucks; original Volvo™ price.

"I love the scent of burning napalm in the morning..."

Together with replacing the rear brakes, this adds up to 600€. Oh, not to forget the 120€ for the broken Domlager from last month...

(So, I'm open for suggestions. So far, I've collected garlic, toilet cleaner, dog hair, and grenades. Any other ideas?)