--- Canada Checkout ---

Dear Blog Readers.

Effective tomorrow, July 29th 2005, 12:00 a.m., I will leave my office only to return one month later, on Aug 28th 2005, back to Bayreuth.

If you are patient enough, hang on for ongoing coverage of my conference/holiday trip to Canada. Following the IROS 2005 conference in Edmonton/Alberta, I plan on visiting Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa, Montréal, and Quebec. And whatever else lies on the way.

Although my plans have changed quite considerably in the last week, I hope to be able to provide a satisfying report upon return.

So, hang on, good luck, and godspeed.

(I got the lingo quite well, eh? ;-))

Problem Autosolver

Check out this freaky shit.

"Ssan-Schpar-Eil"

Had an interesting weekend. Got lost in the forest twice. Interestingly, both times with AC... although at least one of the cases was my... er... responsibility.

Seen Sanspareil ("Ssan-Schpar-Eil") rock garden on Sat. Included were tomatoes (also called "Liebesäpfel" in ancient German, for the record), Safari-style walks, and getting lost in the forest (as promised above).

On Sun, there was a hiking walk in Hochtheta scheduled. It took some time to find this Hochtheta - no decent map was showing this town. Townlet. Village. Whatever.
Had some local beer there and a walk in the forest. AC claimed she knows the way. We got lost. We found a balloon from a wedding ceremony game on the ground - attached was a card to be sent back, belonging to a game where the sender has to fulfill some task when the card really makes it back to the newly-weds. We helped somebody to a full week of washing laundry for them.

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Untitled (Return To Innocence)

Hello watchers.
Another painting recovered from the digital archives...

(Untitled, March 2004)

Little secret of the day

• I just accidentally switched off my notebook because I pulled the plug when looking for free power sockets to connect the microphone amplifier to record annoying sounds.


• There are lots of places within arm reach around a simple office table that emit annoying sounds.


• I am so demotivated I cannot raise my arms to the keyboard. I mean, I could, but I cannot press the keys, so why bother.


• MW, beware, the annoying sounds are partly about you.


• annoy.01.whoooowhooo.mp3


• annoy.02.shshshshshshshsmmmhmmmmh.mp3


• annoy.03.uuuuahuuuuuah.mp3


• annoy.04.mshmshclckmshclck.mp3