Category: zoot

An older story by Barton Warner, pointed to me by Gunnar‘s blog post.

How computer scientists would design a toaster

it has snow white and coal black in it, and a king…

Looking on arte.tv at the french elecetions, we see that one of the candidates went to La Reunion to get more supporters. La Reunion? Another overseas departement of France, like the one we visited, Martinique.

So browsing in wikipedia on these things, we find that France has a lot of overseas departments and territories (which are all on the EURO bills). And then I found the dream island – EUROPA

• its got a cool name
• people tried to inhabit it but died – I love the challenge
• its part of the EU – what could seriously happen when going there (although madagascar claims it)
• and finally, I got convinced by this sentence: The island … has a meteorological station and is visited by scientists.

I am a scientist! I can go there!

This is a moment like Johannes Grenzfurthner had it when he fell on a world map in front of the Museumsquartier and hit an antarctic island with his nose: lets find out how to get there.

A nice Freud’scher mis-speaking happened in one of our meetings:

…In dynamic languages like poothy and rybon ….

Here the whole spam
“Fire Jarhead Prime Harvest”

why the fuck do these idiots spam me anyway??? 1788!!

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a few days ago, I read this very well done article by New York Times on Bob Burnquist who build the worlds biggest skateboard ramp.

Basically, he build a 280.000$ ramp on his land in California. They say he build it in the backyard of his house, but given the dimension of the more-than-a-footballfield large construction, the house is rather in the backyard of the ramp.

If you don’t have a login for NYTimes, click dontbuggme or get an account, this article is worth looking at.

and you must watch the video.

I put a newly bought audio-cd “Dendemann-Die Pfütze des Eisbergs” into my iBook drive, to listen and rip it with iTunes. That is the main application of iTunes – right?

What happens:

• iTunes blocks and then hangs and fucks up. Great!
• ok, pressing F12 (the key to eject cd on iBooks) does nothing. So it fucked up the OS
• closing iTunes via alt+apple-esc (=ctrlaltdelete). cd still eaten
• ok, this machine is stuck, I’ll reboot and blog on then…
• oh! rebooting doesn’t work because the f*** cd driver seems to be hacked directly to the kernel or however they did it, I had to hard-reset the machine (basically, pulling the power chord)

So, after rebooting I wisely

• close iTunes
• put in the CD
• wait till this event of putting the CD in the slot starts iTunes, then
• iTunes asks me if I want to rip this CD, which I want
• and then it works

great! everythings so easy today.

R U serious I have to ask – or are you intentionally f***** it up so that I have to buy the music at the iTunes music store? (which is ok, but then I suddenly think about Audiograbber and Winamp…)

whats that icon about?

The one to the right. You surely know, or have a great idea what courageous people will find at the end of this road…

click picture, comment there!

a usesless search engine that looks pretty.

http://www.msdewey.com/

then again, I could just go to search for “axe feather”…. and then three girls require my attention, Ms Dewey, the feather and the lady that beats me if I don’t close the laptop pretty soon.

it has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.

-man ray-

and thats why man ray is cool and I am not. I just dream all day long or read books.

found here:
http://flickr.com/photos/maggie_le_chat/sets/72057594137050128/

while a longer travel through flickr after searching for photos needed to illustrate powerpoints for this talk I have to give… when you take your time, work can be relaxing.

also click this pic, I can’t embed it here due to restricted copyright.

A way of social metadata and data integration: tagging by humans.

If you have a photo of somebody holding a camera, that somebody may also have uploaded that photo, which can be tagged to your photo. Now If you again take a photo of someone else…

Here a nice example how a chain can be started. Note the great idea of tagging the related photos by notes on the camera:

http://flickr.com/photos/anjeve/262175558/

(all rights reserved on that one, cannot blog it directly, click link)