Don't laugh. My first Flash movie...

Facts

  • I am Philipp Stolka. (Philipp J. Stolka, as some people like to put it.)
  • I was born on the date on the left side in Tychy, Poland (under the name of Filip J. Stolka).
  • I lived in Tychy, Iserlohn, Montabaur, Idar-Oberstein, Kaiserslautern, Bayreuth, and quite a few other places. You can find my current address here.
  • I went to school.
  • I have studied Computer Science.
  • I've been working as a research assistant at the University of Bayreuth (which I would like to be called Imperial University of Bayreuth.)
  • In late 2008, I moved to Baltimore to "do science" as a postdoc (actually, as a visiting student first) at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, USA.
For those of you who simply don't know when to send all the gifts, here's my birthday:
23.06.1978.
And for those who want to know what news there are before deciding to send me gifts, have a look at my blog here:
The PJS Braindump Landfill.
Beware. It is only stating the obvious. 		I will not provide a list of WWW links, because if everyone else is doing it, so why should we?

However, you definitely have to have a look at the computers and the plants here: Michel ("Mischel") Waringo.
A colleague of mine and an extremely strange person. All his fifty-something plants have names and he owns seven or eight 3D-glasses for his state-or-the-art PC. I don't know the number for sure because he screws them up all the time and somehow manages to get them replaced for free.
Besides, there's his enormous online diary waiting to be admired. It is hilarious. It is outrageous. It is preposterous at times. It is, however, not detrimental to the image of the workgroup at the university, which was a precondition for it to be published.

Opinions

This is the opinion of one of my school teachers (the round man who smokes pipes everywhere and once drove over my foot with his Opel Vectra), as it was published in the Abiturzeitung...
Philipp Stolka, pflegt innerlich und äußerlich den Habitus des Intellektuellen, was ihn fähig macht, jedes Leid zu ertragen. Wäre nicht diese Pferdeschwanzfrisur, wäre er ein "Herr alter Schule".

Leistungskurse: Mathematik, Physik, Englisch
And this is the opinion of Anne Schultz, former colleague of mine, as she once stated it on her page...
Philipp Stolka RULES and behaves like a three year old child. He is always too late in courses because he doesn't know when they start or where they take place. In his free time, he only moves from one point to another by using his "Bourgemobile", a very old Mercedes-Benz.
Here you have the mostly irrelevant but nonetheless revealing information that my long-time colleague and friend from our common Kaiserslautern student time Michel is spreading about me and which I stole from his site without his knowing:
Interessanterweise ist Philipp bis auf einen Tag genau so alt wie ich. Erwähnen sollte man an dieser Stelle das Bourgemobil, den alten Benz den Philipp fuhr bis er 2003 mit 17 Jahren nicht mehr durch den TÜV kam. Philipp benennt, genau wie ich, alle seine Rechner. Seine heissen jedoch alle Dian Hua, was oft für Verwirrung sorgt. Ein eigenartig intellektuelles Flair haftet an Philipp. Einige bezeichnen ihn als snob oder eingebildet.
As Dharuma "Gyan" Reinders (with whom philosophical debates, artistic discussions and the discovery of secret plots (such as the one where airplanes could be a guise for alien vessels, as this would provide perfect cover) were possible, and who actively engaged in our Munich discussion as to how the water circulates in coffee machines) explains my being:
Another unique personality. A curious blend of Count Dracula, Einstein, Dali and Dr. Frankenstein. There's little that Philipp has not done yet. I'm not sure whether his plan to send tiny robots through the air-vents of Microsoft headquarters in Redmond (with the purpose of secretely installing Linux on all PC's) will actually work. In short: visit his Refugium
And finally, Peter Hoogland's summary of our Deep Thought Encounters in Munich in summer 2000 (yes, the Peter H. who is fondly remembered for his working (and pausing) habits at IBM and for his late Suziki Swift and who introduced me to my later girlfriend - thanks!):
The 'krass'-est guy from my Munich era. He was my colleague during the first two months of my placement at IBM, where we enjoyed many a cup of coffee together :-) Getting curious who this creature is? He's just one mouse-click away...
A new contestant for the prize of How-To-Best-Describe-The-PJS! Enter Thorsten "D." "Techno" Gecks:
Philipp ist Künstler und als solcher weitaus empfindsamer gegenüber den unästhetischen Ausfällen seiner Mitmenschen, wenn er nicht gar Mühe hat, sie als solche zu identifizieren und sich nach erfolgtem Kontakt wieder zu desinfizieren. Wieder andere ordnet er als fehlende Bindeglieder zwischen Mensch und Tier ein (mich!).
The latest addition, short and to the point, comes from my newest colleague, Clyde of JHU:
A gentleman, and a scholar.
These days, the comments are coming in fast:
Ich habe noch nie jemanden getroffen, der so banal-alltägliche Dinge mit soviel Stil sagen konnte.
Thank you all for those impressions.



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