Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Goat Eyes

I simply stole this paper and repost it here. Hopefully this dude is too doped to notice.

Eustace P. Toffeynuts III, "Goat Eyes: Satanic ploy, or merely horrific crime against nature?"

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Monday, March 01, 2010

Go Canada!





And the medal statistics - from NBC, CBC, and Die Zeit! Interesting ordering :-)

From NBC:


From CBC:


And Die Zeit:

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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Ten Myths of Apple's iPad: 10. It needs Mac OS X

Um. I don't think there is anything more to ask for.

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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Lost in modulo 360

Finally somebody expressed the reason why I have difficulties to intuitively navigate in America.



(If anybody knows who to credit for this, please drop me a note. Tun, thanks for the quote origin.)

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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Noise Emissions

When I came to the U.S., I wondered every day how people tolerate the continuous noise everywhere. Loud cars, air conditioners running all the time, trucks big and small on and off the campus... only very rarely is one of those particularly atrocious transport vehicles on the campus replaced by an electric one. Somehow, silence is not a value here.

(In fact, during my last visit to British Columbia in 2008 I invested two or three days just looking for a place that has no other noises but nature itself. It didn't work. Even in the most remote valleys I tried, there was always at least the hum of some distant plane.)

So I wondered whether there is any country anywhere that has noise emissions regulations, any rules that would govern how machines and devices are to be constructed in a noise-minimizing fashion, sanctioning their operation licenses. Indeed, Germany (and probably some other countries, too) has some laws that regulate noise immissions for workers and in habitated areas (workers have to wear protective gear, and home residents can force noise sources to be shut down), but this doesn't protect the average pedestrian on the street. I don't know of any place that has laws that apply to the engineering side of the equation - making devices quiet before they're built, instead of banning loud ones.

Now it seems that even places like Kenia have noticed that people need to be protected from excessive noise levels. I would not be surprised if neither Germany nor other European places, not to mention the U.S., actually cared about or legislated noise reduction in public places.

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Crawling Around with Baltimore Street Rats

Baltimore and rats: They are smart enough (in a non-individual, Darwinian way) to ambush a garbage truck.

And of course there was this giant rat from China news.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Trouvaillen

Tonight, a sudden flash of useless linguistic insight hit me.

The terms "syndrome" (a group of symptoms that consistently occur together), "concurrency" (esp. programs running in parallel), "Mitläufer" (sb. acting without having formed an own opinion), and "also-rans" (a loser in a race) syntactically all have the same components in their own languages - however, obviously their actual semantic meaning is completely unrelated in each!

Fascinating how the same expression evokes different meanings and feelings in different languages.

Then again, "współbieżny" actually means the same as "concurrent". And for some unrelated ridiculousness, check "współdzielić". (And it's almost unbelievable all those terms in the table there not only mean, but actually evoke all their different semantics!)

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Friday, November 06, 2009

Zeig Mir Den Weg Nach Unten

Wie kommt es, dass Knorkator so lange unbemerkt auf meiner Festplatte vor sich hingegraben hat?



dann kommt Licht /
und ein Känguruh /
und ich weiss ich bin /
zu weit


...unbezahlbar :-)

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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Close To Home

I know almost everybody and their grandma knows and reads the PhD Comics.
But for those who don't, this last series hits uncannily close to home. Even when you're not a female.




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Friday, October 16, 2009

More Billions

Today, no new absurdities. Instead, some news.

The Johns Hopkins University has again topped the NSF Research Funding ranking (for the n-th year straight). In fiscal year 2008, it spent almost 1.7 billion USD. Almost half of it went for the Applied Physics Lab APL, for DARPA- and NASA-sponsored research.
That's up 8% from last year, while inflation in the U.S. over the last year hovered at around zero.

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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Combines Absurdity and Grossness

I am not sure what to chalk this gross abomination up to. Is it America? Is it the hunting community? Is it some deranged jerks?

Don't watch the following promotional video if you get grossed out by gross grossness.



As usual, click through for full gory glory.

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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Daily Dose of Absurdity

I am regularly skimming the newspapers here to get my daily shot of absurd information. Every single day there is something mindboggling in the paper, so I don't bother to take down notes. Sometimes, however, stuff is just too ridiculous to pass up.

"AB-InBev sells off theme parks for $2.7 billion

BRUSSELS (AP)

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA, the world's largest brewer, said Thursday that it will raise $2.7 billion from selling its U.S. theme parks to the Blackstone Group. The sale of three SeaWorld parks, two Busch Gardens parks and five others is the largest of a string of AB InBev selloffs to help pay for the $52 billion takeover deal that formed it last year."

That's a beer brewery. Taken over for $52 billion.
Or here, another one:

"CBO: Budget deficit hit record $1.4T in 2009

By ANDREW TAYLOR (AP) – 21 hours ago

WASHINGTON — The federal budget deficit tripled to a record $1.4 trillion for the 2009 fiscal year that ended last week, congressional analysts said Wednesday.

The Congressional Budget Office estimate, while expected, is bad news for the White House and its allies in Congress as they press ahead with health care overhaul legislation that could cost $900 billion over the next decade.

The unprecedented flood of red ink flows from several factors, including a big drop in tax revenues due to the recession, $245 billion in emergency spending on the Wall Street bailout and the takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Then there is almost $200 billion in costs from President Barack Obama's economic stimulus bill, as well as increases in programs such as unemployment benefits and food stamps.

The previous record deficit was $459 billion and was set just last year."

Just for the German readers, to get a grip on the scope: Das sind 1,4 Billionen Dollar Neuverschuldung, oder 1400 Milliarden, oder 1.400.000.000.000 $, gestiegen von fast vierhundertsechzig Milliarden im Vorjahr.

And finally, a not-so-new piece of news:

"Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 13, 1985 -- A bomb dropped by a police helicopter burned down an entire block, some 60 homes destroyed, 11 dead, including several small children. The police, the mayor's office, and the FBI were all involved in this effort to evict a black organization called MOVE from the house they lived in."

The Police Commissioner, Gregore Sambor, said tonight that it was was his decision to drop the charge, a square package of explosives designed to destroy a bunker atop the house and drop it through to the second floor. He said the charge succeeded in eliminating the threat from the roof, but touched off the fire. Steve Harmon, a resident of the area, said: "Drop n bomb on it residential area? I never in my life heard of that. It's like Vietnam."

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Saturday, August 29, 2009

WAHHA GO GO

Well, this one is completely scary. Both in the beginning and in the end (while it's a bit long in the tooth inbetween).

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Saturday, August 15, 2009

MS Office 2010

The following needs to be read carefully, and from a distance, for full hilarity to take effect.

Microsoft also announced Thursday a new SKU called Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition, launching Sept. 15. It will be sold alongside the current edition available for students, and aims to simplify the product lineup. The new business version will include Entourage Web Services Edition and Microsoft Document Connection for Mac.

"These two components help bsuinesses of all size connect to software and services and mange their businesses," Wilfrid said.


Although probably the typos come from AppleInsider, the underlying absurdity can only be a Microsoft emission.

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Saturday, August 01, 2009

CHANEL N°5, and Audrey

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Sunday, July 19, 2009

MRI scans of sushi

Ok, my early-morning search of interesting things terminated here today: with MRI scans of sushi over at BoingBoing.net (http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/17/mri-scans-of-sushi.html).

It's not a day until you scanned some!

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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Wood's Apparatus (Ohne Worte)

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Fun with Numbers! (The Washington University Way)



(With the fun in the fine print (click image to embiggen); from Washington University Engineering.)

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Monday, June 01, 2009

Unit Bloat

Awesome. Every week in the U.S. brings about another weird unit.

"Southern Utah’s Lake Powell was once teeming with boaters, fishers and vacationers. But from 2000 to 2005 its water level dropped from 20 million to 8 million acre-feet, due to severe drought. [...]"

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Wingsuit Base Jumping

Very much the exact opposite of the last video I posted here... this is probably the ultimate kick.
Turn up the volume and switch the video to full screen.

wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

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Thursday, May 07, 2009

Intel, we are rock stars

Feels like our lab...
... every morning, the Researchers are coming in.

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Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Beauty, and the Lumix GH1

This place and this camera will be my next treat... after I finally accomplish what I am still missing...

Kauai sunset: Lumix GH1 slow motion from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

McDull and the zhibaoji

I haven't understood almost anything the first time I saw this, many years ago.
Now, I understand no more, maybe even some less... but it is no less hilarious!
The famous McDull of Hong Kong and his mom's famous paper bun chicken!



(And unless I'm a total jerk, it's even more belly-splittingly funny in Cantonese!)

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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Shortest Path to Oneself

Today's quote, from an article in the Scientific American:
“The shortest path to oneself leads around the world.”
So wrote German philosopher Count Hermann Keyserling, who believed that travel was the best way to discover who you are.

So what has all this earned me?

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Thursday, December 18, 2008

As the Rich Get Poorer, Teenagers Feel the Crunch

From the New York Times, December 12, 2008:
As the Rich Get Poorer, Teenagers Feel the Crunch

Since the 1990s, many affluent children seeking admission to selective colleges have been discouraged from paid work, and steered instead toward volunteer service projects. Rebuilding homes in New Orleans or teaching English in developing countries, seemingly better résumé fodder, supplanted after-school or summer jobs scooping ice cream or answering phones.

“There’s been such a push to demonstrate to colleges that they’re involved with activities and charities that it’s almost too pedestrian to say that work is part of what I do,” said William S. Miron, the principal at Millburn High School.

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Saturday, December 13, 2008

A Book Is Not

"A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships."

Jorge Luis Borges

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Monday, November 17, 2008

Brave New World!

Brave new world, parents on my Mom's new Eee! Only my sister - who is studying something with "...informatics" in the name - is slow to pick up on new technologies... And yes, I haven't shaved.



And, totally unrelated: Such an eBay starting page can probably only happen in the U.S., the land of free choice and no gun control to speak of.
I hope I don't infringe on some wacko copyrights with this picture.

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Tuesday, August 05, 2008

You Can Call Me Steve

Look at this! Been there, done that!



That's Jobs!


And that's me!

BTW, that's a picture of the Lauterbrunnen valley down from Jungfraujoch, Switzerland.

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Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Sneezing Panda

This one goes without words. Switch on your loudspeakers first.

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Random Links (Worthwhile)

A few random things caught my attention recently.

  • Flow. A game perfect for the occasional need to space out. After-lunch-break compatible.

  • Crayon Physics. A hugely great game. In the style of The Incredible Machine, but with an even more distinctly interactive touch.

  • Processing.
    Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain.

    Processing is free to download and available for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.


    While at first sight this might seem a bit boring, there is incredibly stunning potential hidden in this language. It is based on Java, but hides all the complexity of classes, compilation, and communication from the user. The IDE itself is totally self-contained, it runs immediately, compiles in the background (actually the programmer/user never sees anything remotely like compilation), and runs the programs straight as if they were scripted.

    You really need to have a look at the examples (images, transformations, webcam, ...) coming with it, or at the Exhibition. Processing compiles executable Java programs into applications which run on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X without any further work.

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Saturday, April 05, 2008

Scientific American: "The End of Cosmology?"

I keep returning to this article over and over, not intentionally but by chance, or maybe directed by my reading preferences.
This is the most interesting article I have read in a substantial amount of time.


Scientific American: "The End of Cosmology?"
An accelerating universe wipes out traces of its own origins
By Lawrence M. Krauss and Robert J. Scherrer

  • A decade ago astronomers made the revolutionary discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up. They are still working out is implications.

  • The quickening expansion will eventually pull galaxies apart faster than light, causing them to drop out of view. This process eliminates reference points for measuring expansion and dilutes the distinctive products of the big bang to nothingness. In short, it erases all the signs that a big bang ever occurred.

  • To our distant descendants, the universe will look like a small puddle of stars in an endless, changeless void.

  • What knowledge has the universe already erased?


[...]


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Sunday, March 16, 2008

RedGreenBlue Announcement

Diversifying the offerings portfolio of the PJS Internet presence, the author is proud to announce the launch of a new blog, with content exclusively concerned with energy and environment issues (E2I), and targeting an audience of thought leaders who demand prime information on new emerging trends in the E2I sector.

RedGreenBlue will offer a supreme selection - only marginally culled from the original free flow of ideas - of environmentally relevant visions, paradigms, and information specifically tailored for the real-time needs of the efficient trend-setting jet-set defining what is today's elite, tomorrow's leaders.

Starting with an attentively selected crop of authors (PJS), the mind-changing views of RedGreenBlue will shape the way tomorrow might look when it comes to energy, environment, and information about both.

Any ideas, comments, and rants about the future of RedGreenBlue and our own planet are highly welcome. You're encouraged to join into the frenzy of changing the E2I world by becoming a reader of RedGreenBlue!

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Sunday, February 03, 2008

Food Fight

This here is a short film I came across through, um, probably Wired.com. It is...

Food Fight is an abridged history of war, from World War II to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. Watch as traditional comestibles slug it out for world domination in this chronologically re-enacted smorgasbord of aggression.

My personal recommendation: Watch the movie first, once.


Then, have a look at the The Official Food Fight Character Cheat Sheet.

Finally, treat yourself to a second screening of the movie, and see how much more sense it makes.

Awesome.

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Saturday, February 02, 2008

TED: Ideas worth spreading

Surfing my usual websites, I stumbled upon a link to TED.



Named "Technology, Entertainment, Design", it's a conference held annually in Monterey, CA, hosting talks for around 50 speakers over four days. They are encouraged to give "the talk of their lives" in 18 minutes each - and they do. Ranging from science to arts and music, they are fantastically breathtaking. There is no single talk to be recommended, instead, get yourself some twenty minutes and choose one of your liking.

You're going to be spellbound.

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Monday, June 18, 2007

Bonito Shagging

One message on a side note... incoming spam, saying:

"bonito shagging incurred!
Life Should be Full of Luxuries, yet, only a handful of people can afford the finest products, the luxuries of the elite. (PJS: Sounds like they're talking about the MacBook.) Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix. (PJS: That's a kinda Linux! Damn right, dudes!) Tubes, transistors, and transistors on integrated circuits can be used as the "storage" component of the stored-program architecture, using a circuit design known as a flip-flop, and indeed flip-flops are used for small amounts of very high-speed storage.
Sincerely,
Candice Mcclendon"

Well, Candice, you don't know how right ya are. You don't, babe.

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Saturday, March 31, 2007

Confession of an Illiterate Mind

I have a confession to make.
As a blogger - not of the first minute of the blogosphere, but still a weathered one - I have to admit I have no idea what this website is: Technorati (テクノラティ). It's complete mumble-jumble to me.
Now, everybody will either snicker ("what a dumb bloke") or sneer ("how comes he tries to be such a smartass, nobody understands this chicken droppings scribbling"), but... but! I don't understand this either: Technorati. Is it just me struck blind, or is this site so much Web 2.0 it doesn't even attempt to explain its existence? What is this Technorati stuff? Am I my own grandparents for being so behind?

(...)

What else?

Die Blogosphäre wurde selbstreferentiell. Ja gut, das ist sie meistens, immerhin hat Bloggen noch immer etwas onanistischen Charakter.

Das ist ein Zitat aus dem BatzLog - BatzCAST, einer Empfehlung von Deutschland Radio Kultur.

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Friday, December 15, 2006

"Eine Textkultur ohne Hirn"

In der gegenwärtigen (akademischen) Textkultur kommt es offenbar systematisch zu Texten, die nicht selbst geschrieben wurden und auch nicht von anderen gelesen werden. Der Text bleibt somit von Produktion und Rezeption relativ "unberührt".

(Quote from "Wissenschaft als Web-Sampling")

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Friday, December 08, 2006

<linkfrom>Artistic Ego</linkfrom>

Thursday, November 02, 2006

N-Z? Z-N??

Well, I adore this girl. Or rather, her blogging side.

One less academically nerdy, but nonetheless (or even more, for that matter) glimpse into some intellectually introspective, interculturally attentive, and (bla bla bla)... Forget my puny attempts at commenting. Read Zombie Therapy; and stick to your seat. Don't laugh out loud if at work.

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Monday, July 03, 2006

Intermezzo

Quoting from "Nach dem Verkauf ist vor dem Garantiefall: Warum die Qualitätskontrolle auch bei namhaften Firmen der Elektronikindustrie ins Hintertreffen gerät" from Telepolis:
Askese ist deswegen keine Lösung, weil in unserer Gesellschaft die Teilnahme am gesellschaftlichen Leben über die Waren vermittelt wird, die sie anbietet. Und weil es ein Webfehler der kapitalistischen Warenwirtschaft ist, zusammen mit der Entdeckung der Möglichkeiten, den Schrottkonsum zu demokratisieren, werden die meisten von uns auch weiterhin Geräte benutzen, die tendenziell immer weniger kosten, immer mehr können und immer häufiger kaputt gehen - ob wir das wollen oder nicht.

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Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Exkulpation, oder
Die Entdeckung der Einfachheit

"Neonazismus galt in der DDR als spätkapitalistisches Problem der Bourgeoisie. Von der Schuldfrage exkulpiert waren kleine Mitläufer, über jeden Faschismusverdacht erhaben war die »revolutionäre Klasse« des Proletariats. Wer solche ideologisch geleiteten Fehlschlüsse heute unter umgekehrten Vorzeichen zieht, wird den Fremdenhass im Osten nicht bekämpfen können, sondern ihn stets nur als spätsozialistisches Proletarisierungsphänomen bestaunen, das von einer demokratieunfähigen »Unterschicht« getragen wird und naturwüchsig in den einstigen Trabantenstädten siedelt.

So einfach ist es aber leider nicht."


excerpted from Wunsiedel ist überall by Evelyn Finger
(© DIE ZEIT 01.06.2006 Nr.23)

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Monday, June 05, 2006

Breake of Day

Must businesse thee from hence remove?
Oh, that's the worst disease of love,
The poore, the foule, the false, love can
Admit, but not the busied man.
He which hath businesse, and makes love, doth doe
Such wrong, as when a married man doth wooe.

- John Donne, Breake of Day

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Friday, May 19, 2006

Die Barbarei

"Die Barbarei - und das sage ich Ihnen als jemand, der tagtäglich um die Kultur ringt - ist ein Grundbestandteil unseres Daseins, und wichtiger als die Kultur. [...] Überall wo Menschenmassen sind, sinkt der Intelligenzquotient. Und das gilt nicht nur für Brandenburg."

(taken from an interview with a theatre manager from an Eastern German town)

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Einbürgerungstest

Der vorläufige Fragebogen, den Hessen als Einbürgerungstest für Bewerber für die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft verwenden will.

Ich wußte nicht einmal, daß es in Deutschland die Bundesländer sind, die diesen oder ähnliche Tests einmal durchführen dürften.

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Bounce-O-Meter

Aimless surfing on the net led me to this site. It offers an insightful animation, probably helpful to women striving to avoid "permanent damage" (aka "resonance catastrophe"). But see for yourself...
http://www.shockabsorber.co.uk/bounceometer/intro.swf

However, I was told it (the motion) looks very fake. In the same lane, I got notified of another (probably much more realistic) notion:
The Steak & BJ Day.

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Sunday, January 22, 2006

"orchestriertes Land"

Amy Millan, Sängerin bei den beiden Bands Stars und Broken Social Scene:

»Kanada fühlt sich wie ein orchestriertes Land an. Es gibt so viel Raum für Musik, es ist so kalt im Winter, dass du melancholisch wirst beim Gedanken, vor die Tür zu treten. Wie ein Kind, das denkt, wenn ich jetzt rausgehe, fällt mir mein Kopf ab.«

http://www.zeit.de/2005/50/M-Kanada?page=all

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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

"A good plan [...]"

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow" Robert De Niro said in "Wag the dog".
This is certainly true for crisis management but we doubt the same applies for scientific software development.

(quote from The Matrix Template Library homepage)

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Thursday, December 22, 2005

Schönes

Excuse the second German posting in a row.
Today in the morning edition of Kulturzeit on Bayern 2 Radio I heard the following. Usually, this station's hosts talk in pairs, and they know quite well what the other's going to answer, so they play tag with each other. Today, however, this went terribly wrong...

[male voice] Was haben Sie denn Schönes für uns nachher?
[female voice] Was Schönes... nein, eher nicht. Es geht um ein bayerisches Massaker. Wir sprechen nachher vom Sendlinger Weihnachtsmord.

[male voice] What nice stuff do you have for us later?
[female voice] Nice stuff? Um... rather not. It's about a bavarian massacre. We'll talk about the Sendlinger Christmas murder.

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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Gute Nacht Abendland!

Zum Thema "Homo-Ehe in Großbritannien" heute zu auf tagesschau.de zu lesen:

[...] Auf diesen Tag hat auch Pfarrerin DG sehnsüchtig gewartet. Sie will mit ihrer langjährigen Lebensgefährtin EC die Partnerschaft eingehen.

Ja Gute Nacht Abendland!
Um im BILD-Stil zu fragen... Sind das denn noch Christen?

  • Eine PfarrerIn?

  • Langjährige LebensgefährtIn?

  • Partnerschaft eingehen?

  • AnglikanerIn?


Zum Glück ist das weit entfernt und betrifft die Atheisten nicht.

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Thursday, December 08, 2005

UNICEF - Erdbeben in Südasien

Today for something different.

Go outside, get yourself a good freeze, then come back in and visit this page by UNICEF.
Maybe your cashflow allows to go here, too.

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Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Protestpotenzial

Aus einem Interview von tagesschau.de mit dem Migrations-Experten Professor Klaus J. Bade von der Universität Osnabrück (hier):

"Es gibt starke Bildungs-Defizite bei Zuwanderern und ihren Nachkommen, die Arbeitslosenrate ist sehr hoch - und wir haben ein wachsendes jugendliches Protestpotenzial von Leuten, die anzugreifen beginnen, weil sie keine Chancen mehr sehen. Die Spitzengruppe sind die Spätaussiedler, also Menschen deutscher Herkunft, die aus Russland zugewandert sind. Jeder vierte jugendliche Gewalttäter, der schon mehr als zehnmal bei den Behörden aufgefallen ist, ist ein Spätaussiedler. Das ist ein alarmierendes Signal."

...

Selbst wenn es da nicht stünde, für mich bedeutet das im Klartext: Es handelt sich um Russen.

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Thursday, October 27, 2005

Caution: Student Driver

The following is an excerpt from "Caution: Student Driver. Can I learn how to drive a stick shift?" by Emily Yoffe, found at http://www.slate.com/id/2128407/:

"Although I still couldn't drive a stick shift, I did learn something important: I discovered that the source of America's obesity epidemic wasn't portion size, or lack of exercise, or the decline in smoking. It was the invention of the automatic transmission. Here I was, the typical, atrophied American, barely able to press the clutch without my slack muscles begging for relief. Automatic transmissions became widely available in the 1940s. Over the decades, as Americans have increasingly embraced them, they've increasingly increased. Since you need both hands to drive a stick shift, there's no way you can also be sucking down Slurpees and shoving in Big Macs. It's because of automatic transmissions that we're becoming blob people who will soon have to be hoisted into our behemoth vehicles.

Compare us with Europeans, who still generally have firm left legs and discernable waists. About 85 percent of cars sold in Europe have manual transmission. It doesn't seem like a coincidence that European weights are creeping up in tandem with upward sales of automatics. (Idea for a best seller: French Stick-Shift Drivers Don't Get Fat.)"

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Wissenschaftsmanagement

"Oft allerdings ist Holsboer als Direktor seines Instituts mehr Manager als Forscher. 'Wissenschaftler anzuleiten ist in etwa so, als versuche man, eine Horde Katzen durch einen Wald zu treiben. Am Ende streunt die eine hierhin, die andere dorthin, die nächsten sitzen auf irgendwelchen Bäumen', beschreibt er den Alltag als Institutsleiter."

(aus Die Zeit, http://www.zeit.de/2005/41/P-Holsboer)

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Friday, September 30, 2005

"Eppur Si Muove" (?)



... as found under this cool link.

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Thursday, June 23, 2005

BILD:
Entartete Brunst

Neudeutsch: Nackt-Akt bald Brunst-Kunst?


Wir fragen Menschen am Stammtisch!

M. W. sagt: "Wenn ich so aussehen würde wie der, würde ich um jede Sekunde froh sein, die ich nicht geschlagen werde."

Wir sagen: Das kann so nicht weitergehen!

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Thursday, June 16, 2005

Five u.s. marines killed by bomb in western iraq

Another great thing. A Dada news headlines mixer.

http://www.motorhueso.net/newsfeed/dadanewsfeed.php

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Friday, June 10, 2005

Achieving a strong erection in 15 minutes is easy as 1-2-3!

Drugs have taught an entire generation of Americans the metric system.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

I got a garage door opener. It can't close. Just open.

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Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Ick hör dir!

"Google reduces share price and IPO volume" -
whereupon there has been a forum comment on heise.de with the subject "Nachtigall, ick hör dir trapsen". Which obviously ("opensightly") must be a quotation from some German classic. Being the dumb bloke I am, I wanted to find out its origin. So what? Try googling "ick hör dir trapsen". Some of the results:

Parsifal ick hör dir trapsen! ...

Euro-Abmahner, ick hör dir trapsen

Hartz IV, ick hör' dir trapsen. Ich weile seit 6 Uhr unter den Wachen und habe mir bereits aus reiner Faulheit ein bisschen Ärger aufgehalst. ...

Vorrunde, ick hör dir trapsen…

DEUTSCHLAND, ICK HÖR DIR TRAPSEN

Nazigall, ick hör dir trapsen. Muttertag in Berlin: Während in der Ankerklause am Landserkanal wie immer 400 Rechtsradikale über ...

Nachtigall, ick hör dir trapsen. Der Terminzettel meines neulich ausprobierten Zahnarztes ist doch tatsächlich überschrieben mit "Die fröhlichen Dritten ...

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SuperBowl ick hör Dir trapsen. Der Kampfschrei: Adrenalin statt Adolorin!

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hoffnung, ick hör dir trapsen..;-)

Größenwahn, ick hör Dir trapsen... ;)

Wald- und Wiesenlesbe Gruppe: Members Beiträge: 5679 Userinnennummer: 129 Seit: 21.10.2002, Wahlkampf, ick hör' dir trapsen ....

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mauljucken?* *mein lieber herr gesangsverein.* *muss denn dit nu wieder sein?* *na, wie geht's uns denn so?* *nachtigall ick hör dir trapsen.* *ne karte oder ...

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Neues aus der Drogenpolitik. Datum: 01.07.2002 Kommentare zum Artikel. Wahligall, ick hör Dir trapsen!

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Windows ick hör Dir trapsen!

Tschernobyl, ick hör Dir trapsen - explodiert infolge von Überbeanspruchung. ...

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Retro, ick hör dir trapsen... Wirtschaftlich attraktive Geschäftsfelder werden natürlich nicht friedlich bewohnt wie ein Dorf im Allgäu. ...

(Raison d'Etre), ick hör Dir trapsen..!

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Susanne D., Ein Leben als Prostituierte :: GÜNSTIG :: Bücher ...
... von den Behörden anfänglich herumgeschubster Straßenhure. Klischee, ick hör Dir trapsen?? Nein, wohl eher ein Lebensmuster, wie ...

"Nachtigall, ick hör´Dir trapsen" könnten manche Sachbearbeiter bei den Versicherungen wohl sagen, wenn Sie fast zeitgleich zu ...

Und ich dacht schon "Altamon,... ick hör dir trapsen" aber es warn verkleidete Teddybären. Total nett. Naja und ...

... Praktikumsleiter zu verleumden. Nachtigall, ick hör dir trapsen. (Timo Rieg). Statistikpflicht für Tierversuche in der Lehre. Tierversuche in ...

Landesvorstandsmitglied Rainer Nachtigall: „Ick hör dir trapsen ...

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Streaming, ick hör dir trapsen. ...

The Mountie. Sperrung, ick hör dir trapsen! BLADE BLADING. Man werfe einen ...

Die Kinder müssen endlich zur Ruhe kommen." "Nachtigall ick hör dir trapsen." Zuerst das Jugendamt, dann die Pflege-/Adoptivfamilie. ...

Collector's Scum - ick hör dir trapsen. Bestellen könnt Ihr Hier

Idealismus – ick hör Dir trapsen! So fällt man ganz gemütlich hinter bereits erarbeitete Standards der Kritik zurück. ...

Ich liebe Sushi! Carla: Schön. Dann hat mich mein Gefühl ja nicht getäuscht. [foreshadowing, ick hör dir trapsen].

Kommt mir vor wie "MarlisM und die sorbischen Kopftuchträgerinnen". Nachtigall, ick hör Dir trapsen. ...

Jesus ick hör dir trapsen... Trotzdem 8 Punkte für dieses inspirierende Bild kurz vor dem Heiabettchen nach einem anstrengenden Tag.

NAchtigall ick hör dir trapsen :angel: mfg RaZorr. Jeremy Morton. Was willste denn damit sagen? Samurai. Was willste denn damit sagen? ...

Ist denn aber Mörike mit einer billigen Keyboardbegleitung besser, angemessener? Nachtigall, ick hör dir trapsen! ...

der EPD Film erzählt Chéreau, daß es nichts Schöneres gibt, "als die freiwillige Vereinigung zweier Körper" (Hype, ick hör dir trapsen!). ...

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autsch (Gast) (vor 1927 Tagen, 17 Stunden, 51 Minuten) nicht die häßlichste, weil sie in einem film nackt zu sehen ist? fettnapf, ick hör dir trapsen! ...

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Freitag 18 - Welcome, Polonia!
... heute deutsch. Dazu würde ein Berliner wohl nur den - unübersetzbaren - Satz sagen: Nachtigall, ick hör dir trapsen.

Software, ick hoer dir trapsen. Microsoft, ick hoer dir trampeln.

In "Endstation Hallstadt" (1996) geht es um einen Mann, der nach einem Attentat auf ihn in Bad Ischl (Sissi, ick hör Dir trapsen!), lieber sich selbst operiert ...

Jaja, Bakunin, ick hör dir trapsen...

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Saddam in da house!
... Irak, ick hör dir trapsen. Der Planet mit der Androiden-Falle - irakische Wüste. Das Gefecht mit den Freaks - Marines vs. Iraker. ...

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Deutschpunk, ick hör’ dir trapsen? Schon, aber nicht die stumpfe Variante! Vielmehr sind Oma Hans ...

Doch dazu brauchen wir Führer und nicht Politiker. Ist schon klar, wir brauchen einen Führer! Nachtigall ick hör dir trapsen. ...

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Er prüft, ob es vielleicht gelingt - wenn er das Geld in's Ausland bringt - dem Fiskus etwas abzuknappsen: "Nachtigall, ick hör' Dir trapsen!" Frau O. mahnt ...

"Chinese Democracy" ick hör' dir trapsen..

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This should be enough to give you the big picture.

And besides, today there's big action in front of our offices again. They are cutting down treelets again. A startling display of maximum energy usage vs. minimum effect - they use a tractor, knot a chain to it and thus pull out the bush. They already managed to extract a street sign from the soil on Friday. It seems now they are going for bigger fish :-).

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